{"id":15011,"date":"2024-03-18T05:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T05:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/afghanistan-v-ireland-afghans-secure-10-run-win-to-set-up-t20-series-decider\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T05:24:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T05:24:27","slug":"afghanistan-v-ireland-afghans-secure-10-run-win-to-set-up-t20-series-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/afghanistan-v-ireland-afghans-secure-10-run-win-to-set-up-t20-series-decider\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan v Ireland: Afghans secure 10-run win to set up T20 series decider"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Mohammad Nabi’s knock of 59 helped rescue the Afghanistan innings after they had been 14-4 in the fourth over<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Afghanistan 152-9 (20 overs):<\/strong> Nabi 59, Atal 352, Rashid 25; Adair 3-27, Little 2-20, McCarthy 2-33<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ireland 142-8 (20 overs):<\/strong> Balbirnie 45, Delany 39, Stirling 24; Rashid 4-14, Kharote 2-23<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Afghanistan win by 10 runs<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Full scorecard<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Mohammad Nabi’s 59 and Rashid Khan’s 4-14 helped Afghanistan level the Twenty20 series against Ireland.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Afghanistan slumped to 14-4 early on in Sharjah after Josh Little and Mark Adair both took two wickets.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But Nabi’s 38-ball innings helped the Afghans post a competitive 152-9.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ireland looked on course to win the series as they reached 49-0 in 5.1 overs before wickets tumbled and despite late big hitting from Gareth Delany, they could only reach 142-8.<\/span><\/p>\n

Skipper Paul Stirling was bowled by Nangeyalia Kharote and while Ireland rallied to reach 68-1, Rashid dismissed Lorcan Tucker and Harry Tector in successive balls to turn the contest in Afghanistan’s favour.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nabi then caught and bowled Curtis Campher before Kharote crucially trapped Andrew Balbirnie lbw after the Ireland Test skipper had reached 45.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Irish looked set for a heavy defeat as franchise star Rashid bowled George Dockrell and Mark Adair to leave them on 95-7 but Delany produced late resistance as he hit four sixes in an 18-ball 39 before departing off a Fazalhaq Farooqi delivery, with Sediqullah Atal taking the catch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nabi’s inning included three sixes and six fours, with Atal (35) and Rashid (25) also making vital contributions with the bat after Little and Adair had ripped through Afghanistan’s top order.<\/span><\/p>\n

Little bowled Rahmanullah Gurbaz to leave the Afghans on 6-1 with Adair dismissing Ibrahim Zadran and Mohammad Ishaq in successive balls before Azmatullah Omarzai was out for a duck off another Little delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Nabi and Atal steadied the Afghanistan innings with a vital 79-run partnership.<\/span><\/p>\n

The series decider will take place in Sharjah on Monday, which will round off three weeks of action between the counties, Ireland having won the one-off Test in Abu Dhabi before the Afghans clinched a 2-0 victory in a one-day series where one of the games had to be abandoned because of rain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ireland earned a 38-run victory in the T20 series opener on Friday when Tector hit 56 and Ben White took four Afghanistan wickets.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Mohammad Nabi’s knock of 59 helped rescue the Afghanistan innings after they had been 14-4 in the fourth over Afghanistan 152-9 (20 overs): Nabi 59, Atal 352, Rashid 25; Adair 3-27, Little 2-20, McCarthy 2-33 Ireland 142-8 (20 overs): Balbirnie 45, Delany 39, Stirling 24; Rashid 4-14, Kharote 2-23 Afghanistan win by 10 runs Full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15013,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions\/15013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}