AFG vs IRE Today's Match Expert Fantasy Tips & Player Stats, Ireland vs Afghanistan 2024

1st Test • Tolerance Oval • Abu Dhabi

Afghanistan

155 & 218/10 (75.4)

Ireland

263 & 111/4 (31.3)

IRE won by 6 wickets

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Scorecard

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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

Ibrahim Zadran

63.86

c Tucker b Young

Noor Ali Zadran

25.93

c Balbirnie b Adair

Rahmat Shah

0.00

b Adair

Hashmatullah Shahidi

45.45

c Tucker b McCarthy

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

25.00

c Tucker b Adair

Nasir Jamal

0.00

b Young

Karim Janat

52.56

Not out

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

40.00

c Balbirnie b Adair

Naveed Zadran

28.57

c McBrine b Campher

Nijat Masood

0.00

c Tucker b Campher

Zahir Khan

0.00

b Adair

Extras

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

TOTAL

(54.5 Ov, RR: 2.83)

155/10

Bowlers

EXT

Mark Adair

16.5

2.32

Barry McCarthy

2.55

Craig Young

2.82

Andy McBrine

3.14

Theo van Woerkom

2.40

Curtis Campher

3.25

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Noor Ali Zadran

c Balbirnie b Adair

1-11

6.3

Rahmat Shah

b Adair

2-11

6.6

Hashmatullah Shahidi

c Tucker b McCarthy

3-66

21.5

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

c Tucker b Adair

4-86

28.3

Nasir Jamal

b Young

5-89

29.5

Ibrahim Zadran

c Tucker b Young

6-90

31.1

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

c Balbirnie b Adair

7-111

36.4

Naveed Zadran

c McBrine b Campher

8-138

49.4

Nijat Masood

c Tucker b Campher

9-138

49.6

Zahir Khan

b Adair

10-155

54.5

Ireland 1st Innings

263/10 (83.4)

Batters

Peter Moor

41.38

b Zadran

Andy Balbirnie

16.67

lbw b Zadran

Curtis Campher

76.56

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Akbar

Harry Tector

43.84

lbw b Zadran

Theo van Woerkom

11.11

b Akbar

Paul Stirling

58.43

b Khan

Lorcan Tucker

105

43.81

c Shah b Akbar

Andy McBrine

51.35

c Zadran b Masood

Mark Adair

75.00

lbw b Akbar

Barry McCarthy

35.71

lbw b Akbar

Craig Young

6.25

Not out

Extras

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

TOTAL

(83.4 Ov, RR: 3.14)

263/10

Bowlers

EXT

Nijat Masood

12.4

3.00

Naveed Zadran

3.28

Karim Janat

4.00

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

2.13

Zahir Khan

4.79

Hashmatullah Shahidi

1.33

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Andy Balbirnie

lbw b Zadran

1-6

3.6

Peter Moor

b Zadran

2-32

9.1

Curtis Campher

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Akbar

3-92

26.1

Theo van Woerkom

b Akbar

4-94

28.2

Harry Tector

lbw b Zadran

5-106

35.3

Paul Stirling

b Khan

6-186

57.4

Lorcan Tucker

c Shah b Akbar

7-216

68.3

Mark Adair

lbw b Akbar

8-242

75.2

Barry McCarthy

lbw b Akbar

9-256

79.3

Andy McBrine

c Zadran b Masood

10-263

83.4

Afghanistan 2nd Innings

218/10 (75.4)

Batters

Ibrahim Zadran

57.14

c Moor b Adair

Noor Ali Zadran

44.44

c Adair b McCarthy

Rahmat Shah

100.00

c Tucker b Adair

Hashmatullah Shahidi

107

51.40

lbw b Adair

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

54.12

b Young

Nasir Jamal

10.53

b McCarthy

Karim Janat

33.33

c Balbirnie b Young

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

44.83

c Balbirnie b van Woerkom

Naveed Zadran

47.17

b Young

Nijat Masood

0.00

b McCarthy

Zahir Khan

30.77

Not out

Extras

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

TOTAL

(75.4 Ov, RR: 2.88)

218/10

Bowlers

EXT

Mark Adair

3.50

Barry McCarthy

2.67

Theo van Woerkom

3.31

Andy McBrine

2.24

Craig Young

10.4

2.25

Harry Tector

2.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Ibrahim Zadran

c Moor b Adair

1-24

6.3

Rahmat Shah

c Tucker b Adair

2-38

8.4

Noor Ali Zadran

c Adair b McCarthy

3-93

26.5

Hashmatullah Shahidi

lbw b Adair

4-140

40.5

Nasir Jamal

b McCarthy

5-143

45.5

Karim Janat

c Balbirnie b Young

6-173

57.6

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

b Young

7-174

59.1

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

c Balbirnie b van Woerkom

8-206

70.1

Nijat Masood

b McCarthy

9-207

71.3

Naveed Zadran

b Young

10-218

75.4

Ireland 2nd Innings

111/4 (31.3)

Batters

Peter Moor

0.00

b Zadran

Andy Balbirnie

60.42

Not out

Curtis Campher

0.00

b Zadran

Harry Tector

28.57

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Masood

Paul Stirling

63.64

c Shah b Akbar

Lorcan Tucker

47.37

Not out

Extras

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

TOTAL

(31.3 Ov, RR: 3.52)

111/4

Did not Bat

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

Bowlers

EXT

Nijat Masood

3.38

Naveed Zadran

9.3

3.26

Zia ur Rehman Akbar

3.00

Zahir Khan

4.33

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Peter Moor

b Zadran

1-8

1.5

Curtis Campher

b Zadran

2-8

1.6

Harry Tector

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Masood

3-13

4.3

Paul Stirling

c Shah b 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

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

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

Referee

David Boon (Australia)

Toss

Afghanistan elected to bat

1 1 0 0 0 0

Over 29

Runs: 2

0 0 4 0 0 0

Over 30

Runs: 4

4 0 1 0 1 0

Over 31

Runs: 6

0 3 1

Over 32

Runs: 4

All Overs

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.

overs

107 /4 score

1lb

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.

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