Live Cricket Score | Ireland vs New Zealand Live Score & Commentary | IRE vs NZ Scorecard, Ireland vs New Zealand 2022

2nd T20I • Belfast

179/4 (20)

IRE

91 (13.5)

NZ won by 88 runs

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Stats

Playing XI

Player of the Match Dane Cleaver

78(55)

NZ s

IRE s

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New Zealand s

179/4 (20)

Batters

Martin Guptill

64.71

c McCarthy b Young

Finn Allen

175.00

c McCarthy b Little

Dane Cleaver

141.82

Not out

Glenn Phillips

143.75

b Young

Daryl Mitchell

140.00

c Tucker b Little

Jimmy Neesham

50.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 10, NB: 0, W: 7)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8.95)

179/4

Did not Bat

Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson, Jacob Duffy

Bowlers

EXT

8.50

7.00

7.75

12.00

6.67

8.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Finn Allen

c McCarthy b Little

1-44

4.2

Martin Guptill

c McCarthy b Young

2-70

8.6

Glenn Phillips

b Young

3-123

14.2

Daryl Mitchell

c Tucker b Little

4-171

18.6

Ireland s

91/10 (13.5)

Batters

Paul Stirling

140.00

c Santner b Ferguson

Andy Balbirnie

(C)

90.91

c Cleaver b Duffy

Gareth Delany

0.00

b Duffy

Harry Tector

66.67

runout (Phillips)

Curtis Campher

100.00

c Neesham b Sodhi

Lorcan Tucker

28.57

st Cleaver b Sodhi

George Dockrell

0.00

c Neesham b Sodhi

Mark Adair

122.73

c Phillips b Bracewell

Barry McCarthy

137.50

c Phillips b Bracewell

Craig Young

0.00

c Sodhi b Bracewell

Josh Little

0.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 4)

TOTAL

(13.5 Ov, RR: 6.58)

91/10

Bowlers

EXT

6.25

6.67

5.00

7.00

10.00

0.5

6.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Paul Stirling

c Santner b Ferguson

1-23

2.6

Gareth Delany

b Duffy

2-24

3.2

Harry Tector

runout (Phillips)

3-27

4.1

Andy Balbirnie

c Cleaver b Duffy

4-41

5.5

Lorcan Tucker

st Cleaver b Sodhi

5-45

7.5

George Dockrell

c Neesham b Sodhi

6-45

7.6

Curtis Campher

c Neesham b Sodhi

7-54

9.4

Mark Adair

c Phillips b Bracewell

8-91

13.3

Barry McCarthy

c Phillips b Bracewell

9-91

13.4

Craig Young

c Sodhi b Bracewell

10-91

13.5

Match Info

Date & Time

20 Jul, 08:30 PM IST

Venue

Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast

Match

2nd T20I,

Ireland vs New Zealand 2022

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Alex Wharf (England), Paul Reynolds (Ireland), Paul Reynolds (Ireland, TV)

Referee

Kevin Gallagher (Ireland)

Toss

Ireland elected to bowl

4 0 0 1 0 0

Over 11

Runs: 5

0 4 4 6 0 1

Over 12

Runs: 15

1 4 1 0 0 4

Over 13

Runs: 10

4 1 W W W

Over 14

Runs: 5

All Overs

Player of the Match Dane Cleaver

78(55)

Commentary

Right then. New Zealand were all over Ireland in the T20 series and eventually sealed the series with a game to play. As Mitch Santner said in the presentation, there is not a lot that Bracewell can't do at the moment in all formats as he took a hat-trick out of nowhere. Ireland need to work on his batting before the final match if they are to stand a chance of beating New Zealand for the first time in this tour.

Let's see what happens in the final T20I on Friday, until then, this is Pragadeesh signing off on behalf of my fellow colleague Rajarshi. Goodnight!

Mitchell Santner: The wicket looked good in the first innings and looked up and down in the second. It's not anything that he can't do at the moment in all formats (On Michael Bracewell's hat-trick). It's a special effort. It's going to be a different wicket, similar to the first one I think. I am happy with today's win and let's see how the boys respond in the next one

Andy Balbirine: Yeah it is T20 cricket. We were really not in the game after 50-7 at one stage and we have to move on. They batted rreally well. Cleaver batted very well and swings the momentum in New Zealand's favour. The batting let us down The beauty is we get enough opportunities and last week we came pretty close in the ODI formats but we can't do the same in the T20's. We have one more crack at it. I think we have a lot of good teams coming here leading up to the T20 World cup and we have to keep improving day in and day out

Dane Cleaver, Player Of The Match: It was a pretty special day, always good to contribute to a win for the country. The wicket offered a bit of variation, it wasn't the most fluent of innings from me, but I stuck to my options and it paid off. It is very special to have my family here, in beautiful Ireland. It's a great feeling, there's nothing more I wanted than to play for my country my entire life.

Dane Cleaver is the Player of The Match

New Zealand beat Ireland by 88 runs
Dane Cleaver 78(55) | Mark Adair 27(22)
Michael Bracewell 3-5(0.5) | Joshua Little 2-31(4)

It's a thumping victory for the visitors. No one really expected this batting effort from the Irish outfit after how close they came in the ODI's to taste success. Paul Stirling smacked Santner for a six and a boundary in the first over but a dismal batting performance transpired after a few minutes. Jacob Duffy ran through the top order before the Irish batters got deceived by Ish Sodhi's flight and variations in the middle overs.

Sodhi got three wickets to his name and Ireland were reeling at 54-7 before Mark Adair entertained the crowd with a couple of boundaries and a maximum. Mitch Santner threw the ball to the hero of this tour Michael Bracewell and he dismissed the remaining three batters in the same over to get his first ever T20 hat-trick. Stay tuned for the presentations

Can you believe it? Three wickets fell in a blink of an eye and Michael Bracewell registers his T20 hat-trick in his very first over in the format. New Zealand win the series with a game in hand, while Ireland suffered huge defeat and this match turned out to be a one-sided tussle eventually

13.5 Michael Bracewell to Craig Young, OUT, Caught! Bracewell has a T20I Hat-trick in the first over he bowls in T20I cricket!!! Craig Young did not need to do anything to that delivery, it was pitched wide outside off stump, was short-ish in nature too, but Young tries to play the cut off the front foot, the ball ends up bobbling up towards short third, where Ish Sodhi completes the catch, much to the delight of everyone on the field! And with that, New Zealand seal the T20I series with a game to play, they triumph by a mammoth margin of 88 runs!

Craig Young c Sodhi b Bracewell 0 (1b 0x4 0x6)

Joshua Little, RHB, walks in at no.11

Hat-trick ball coming up

13.4 Michael Bracewell to Barry McCarthy, OUT, Caught! Did someone rewind to the previous ball? An exact carbon copy of the previous dismissal, McCarthy gets on one knee and tries to clear the ropes at deep mid-wicket, he gets the connection just about right, but....the distance was not there, and Glenn Phillips completes a second catch!

Barry McCarthy c Glenn Phillips b Michael Bracewell 11 (8b 2x4)