AFG vs IRE Full Scorecard, Ireland vs Afghanistan 2024 Updates

1st Test • Tolerance Oval • Abu Dhabi

155/10 & 218/10 (75.4)

263/10 & 111/4 (31.3)

IRE won by 6 wickets

Info

Fantasy

Live

Scorecard

Playing XI

Player of the Match Mark Adair

15(20)

5/39 & 3/56

AFG 1st

IRE 1st

AFG 2nd

IRE 2nd

Info

Afghanistan 1st Innings

155/10 (54.5)

Batters

R

B

4s

6s

SR

53

83

9

0

63.86

c LJ Tucker b C Young

Noor Ali Zadran

7

27

1

0

25.93

c A Balbirnie b MR Adair

0

3

0

0

0.00

b MR Adair

Hashmatullah Shahidi

(C)

20

44

4

0

45.45

c LJ Tucker b BJ McCarthy

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

5

20

0

0

25.00

c LJ Tucker b MR Adair

0

8

0

0

0.00

b C Young

41

78

6

0

52.56

Not out

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

6

15

1

0

40.00

c A Balbirnie b MR Adair

Naveed Zadran

12

42

2

0

28.57

c A McBrine b C Campher

0

2

0

0

0.00

c LJ Tucker b C Campher

0

8

0

0

0.00

b MR Adair

Extras

11

(B: 4, LB: 6, NB: 1, W: 0)

TOTAL

(54.5 Ov, RR: 2.83)

155/10

23

0

Bowlers

O

M

R

W

ER

EXT

16.5

5

39

5

2.32

0

11

1

28

1

2.55

1

11

5

31

2

2.82

0

7

1

22

0

3.14

0

Theo van Woerkom

5

1

12

0

2.40

0

4

1

13

2

3.25

0

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Noor Ali Zadran

c A Balbirnie b MR Adair

1-11

6.3

b MR Adair

2-11

6.6

Hashmatullah Shahidi

c LJ Tucker b BJ McCarthy

3-66

21.5

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

c LJ Tucker b MR Adair

4-86

28.3

b C Young

5-89

29.5

c LJ Tucker b C Young

6-90

31.1

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

c A Balbirnie b MR Adair

7-111

36.4

Naveed Zadran

c A McBrine b C Campher

8-138

49.4

c LJ Tucker b C Campher

9-138

49.6

b MR Adair

10-155

54.5

Ireland 1st Innings

263/10 (83.4)

Batters

R

B

4s

6s

SR

12

29

2

0

41.38

b N Zadran

Andy Balbirnie *

(C)

2

12

0

0

16.67

lbw b N Zadran

49

64

7

1

76.56

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Z Akbar

32

73

3

0

43.84

lbw b N Zadran

Theo van Woerkom

1

9

0

0

11.11

b Z Akbar

52

89

7

0

58.43

b Z Khan

46

105

5

0

43.81

c R Shah b Z Akbar

38

74

5

0

51.35

c N Zadran b N Masood

15

20

2

0

75.00

lbw b Z Akbar

5

14

0

0

35.71

lbw b Z Akbar

1

16

0

0

6.25

Not out

Extras

10

(B: 4, LB: 3, NB: 3, W: 0)

TOTAL

(83.4 Ov, RR: 3.14)

263/10

31

1

Bowlers

O

M

R

W

ER

EXT

12.4

2

38

1

3.00

1

Naveed Zadran

18

4

59

3

3.28

1

6

0

24

0

4.00

0

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

30

7

64

5

2.13

0

14

0

67

1

4.79

1

Hashmatullah Shahidi

3

0

4

0

1.33

0

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

lbw b N Zadran

1-6

3.6

b N Zadran

2-32

9.1

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Z Akbar

3-92

26.1

Theo van Woerkom

b Z Akbar

4-94

28.2

lbw b N Zadran

5-106

35.3

b Z Khan

6-186

57.4

c R Shah b Z Akbar

7-216

68.3

lbw b Z Akbar

8-242

75.2

lbw b Z Akbar

9-256

79.3

c N Zadran b N Masood

10-263

83.4

Afghanistan 2nd Innings

218/10 (75.4)

Batters

R

B

4s

6s

SR

12

21

1

0

57.14

c PJ Moor b MR Adair

Noor Ali Zadran

32

72

3

0

44.44

c MR Adair b BJ McCarthy

9

9

2

0

100.00

c LJ Tucker b MR Adair

Hashmatullah Shahidi

(C)

55

107

5

0

51.40

lbw b MR Adair

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

46

85

4

2

54.12

b C Young

2

19

0

0

10.53

b BJ McCarthy

13

39

1

0

33.33

c A Balbirnie b C Young

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

13

29

2

0

44.83

c A Balbirnie b TF van Woerkom

Naveed Zadran

25

53

3

0

47.17

b C Young

0

7

0

0

0.00

b BJ McCarthy

4

13

1

0

30.77

Not out

Extras

7

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

TOTAL

(75.4 Ov, RR: 2.88)

218/10

22

2

Bowlers

O

M

R

W

ER

EXT

16

3

56

3

3.50

0

18

5

48

3

2.67

0

Theo van Woerkom

13

3

43

1

3.31

0

17

3

38

0

2.24

0

10.4

2

24

3

2.25

0

1

0

2

0

2.00

0

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

c PJ Moor b MR Adair

1-24

6.3

c LJ Tucker b MR Adair

2-38

8.4

Noor Ali Zadran

c MR Adair b BJ McCarthy

3-93

26.5

Hashmatullah Shahidi

lbw b MR Adair

4-140

40.5

b BJ McCarthy

5-143

45.5

c A Balbirnie b C Young

6-173

57.6

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

b C Young

7-174

59.1

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

c A Balbirnie b TF van Woerkom

8-206

70.1

b BJ McCarthy

9-207

71.3

Naveed Zadran

b C Young

10-218

75.4

Ireland 2nd Innings

111/4 (31.3)

Batters

R

B

4s

6s

SR

0

9

0

0

0.00

b N Zadran

Andy Balbirnie *

(C)

58

96

5

0

60.42

Not out

0

1

0

0

0.00

b N Zadran

2

7

0

0

28.57

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b N Masood

14

22

3

0

63.64

c R Shah b Z Akbar

27

57

2

0

47.37

Not out

Extras

10

(B: 0, LB: 7, NB: 3, W: 0)

TOTAL

(31.3 Ov, RR: 3.52)

111/4

10

0

Did not Bat

Andy McBrine, Mark Adair, Barry McCarthy, Craig Young, Theo van Woerkom

Bowlers

O

M

R

W

ER

EXT

8

1

27

1

3.38

1

Naveed Zadran

9.3

0

31

2

3.26

0

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

11

0

33

1

3.00

0

3

0

13

0

4.33

2

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

b N Zadran

1-8

1.5

b N Zadran

2-8

1.6

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b N Masood

3-13

4.3

c R Shah b Z Akbar

4-39

12.6

Match Info

Date & Time

28 Feb, 11:30 AM IST

Venue

Tolerance Oval, Abu Dhabi

Match

1st Test,

Ireland vs Afghanistan 2024

Umpires

Adrian Holdstock (South Africa), Richard Kettleborough (England), Paul Reiffel (Australia, TV)

Referee

David Boon (Australia)

Toss

Afghanistan elected to bat

Player of the Match Mark Adair

15(20)

5/39 & 3/56

Commentary

It has been a memorable evening for us and cricket fans around the globe. I, Darpan Tikiya, and my colleague Bidipto have enjoyed bringing you the ball by ball action. Time for us to bid you goodbye. Take care and keep following Sportskeeda for sporting action around the world.

Andy Balbirnie (Ireland Captain): I can't quite believe it. I think we started off well having lost the toss. To take 20 wickets in a Test is pretty special. This is the first time we have done it. It did swing a bit more than we expected. In the chase, we knew we were only one partnership away. There's always a bit of nerves when you're chasing your first win. There is a lot of talk about relevance of Test cricket around the world. But if you ask this group, this is a big moment for us. This is right up there in our achievements. Hopefully it will inspire more kids back home who want to take up Test cricket. There's a lot cricket going on in the world. We know we won't get 10-15 Tests a year. But whatever we get we'd try to make the most of it now that we've got the monkey off our backs.

Hashmatullah Shahidi (Afghanistan captain): I think the first day was the problem. We let ourselves down as a batting unit. We threw our wickets away, even though the Irish seamers bowled well in good bowling conditions. We had some positives. Rahmanullah Gurbaz played positively, Naveed Zadran was impressive and Zia Ur Rehman Akbar got a fifer on debut, so they put their hand up. A first win is really special and we congratulate Ireland on this victory. We hope to take our learnings from this game only to get better in this format.

Mark Adair has been adjudged the Player of the Match! Here is what he has to say.

Mark Adair: The way the lads put up the fight and the way we played this game, make it special to get the win! I'm really happy for the way I have bowled in this game. Test cricket is very difficult, we have been on the losing side so many times but this is relieving. We've put in some important runs, we've hit the right lengths as a bowling unit and the way the lads finished it off was brilliant. We hope to get more games in and win most of them.

It is time for the post-match presentation!

Ireland win by 6 wickets.

Lorcan Tucker 46 & 27* | Mark Adair 5/39 & 3/56
Hashmatullah Shahidi 20 & 55 | Zia ur Rehman Akbar 5/64 & 1/33

In the first ever Test that the Tolerance Oval has hosted, it has witnessed history being made. Ireland have registered their first ever Test victory in men's cricket.

It was all set up brilliantly by Mark Adair who rocked the Afghanistan top order with some wonderful seam bowling on Day 1. Though Afghanistan did come back riding on inspiring performances from Naveed Zadran and Zia ur Rehman Akbar, Ireland had got themselves a handy first innings lead of 108.

In the end, that turned out to be crucial. Ireland were 39/4 chasing 111 in the fourth innings. A few more and they could have seemed like a mountaineer running out of breath at the base camp of Everest. But it was the captain who lead the way.

Andy Balbirnie became the first Ireland cricketer to score a 4th innings fifty. An innings that would be etched in history of Irish cricket with golden letters as he guided them past the finishing line. Don't forget the contribution of Lorcan Tucker who proved to be the perfect support act.

And with that, we now have 12 Test teams, each of whom have won a Test match at least.

There are sure to be some moist eyes. It's taken a generation to get here! But finally Ireland have A TEST VICTORY.

WE HAVE WITNESSED HISTORY! FIRST TEST VICTORY FOR IRELAND's MEN's TEAM!!!

31.3 Naveed Zadran to Lorcan Tucker, THERE IS THE HISTORIC FIRST FOR IRELAND! THEY WIN THEIR FIRST EVER TEST MATCH! Good length ball around off-stump. Tucker got outside the line of the stumps and tried to tap it to mid-on. He missed it but the ball took the inside edge and rapped him on the pads to roll down to gully, handing the batters the chance to run through for a single, and they did not hesitate one bit! Both completed the run and leapt in joy to give many an Irish fan a lot to cheer about!

The fielder in the deep has pulled this in inches from the ropes. Irish fans in the crowd thought they had it. They'll have to wait a little more.

31.2 Naveed Zadran to Andy Balbirnie, short and wide outside off-stump. Cut away to deep cover point off the back foot for three runs. The scores are level.

31.1 Naveed Zadran to Andy Balbirnie, length ball around off-stump. A forceful off-drive on the up gets mistimed to mid-on for no run.

Ireland inching closer. Afghanistan have a flattened body language. Understandably so.

31

overs

107 /4 score

4

0

1lb

0

1

0

runs

Lorcan Tucker *

26 (56)

Andy Balbirnie

55 (94)

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

1 /33

30.6 Zia Ur Rehman Akbar to Lorcan Tucker, good length flatter ball on middle-stump. Tucker goes back to it and defends it down, no run.

30.5 Zia Ur Rehman Akbar to Andy Balbirnie, full and slow on off-stump. A hard, conventional sweep down to deep square-leg for a single again.

30.4 Zia Ur Rehman Akbar to Andy Balbirnie, good length ball on off-stump. Defended back to the bowler off the back foot as it turns away. No run.

Na, he gets the skipper on strike.

30.3 Zia Ur Rehman Akbar to Lorcan Tucker, short on middle-and-leg. Tucked to the backward square-leg area on the back foot for a single.