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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Ireland hammers Windies by six wickets

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KINGSTON–World T20 cham­pi­ons West In­dies plum­met­ed to a painful six wick­et de­feat against Ire­land in their first T20 in­ter­na­tion­al at Sabi­na Park in Ja­maica yes­ter­day.

Ire­land eas­i­ly chased down the West In­dies sub-par to­tal of 116 for 8 from their 20 overs to win their first Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al against the Caribbean side.

A bril­liant per­for­mance by Ire­land in the field se­vere­ly re­strict­ed the West In­dies bat­ting and en­sured none of their bats­men reached 20.

A 31 run open­ing stand be­tween Chris Gayle and Dwayne Smith col­lapsed and both bats­men de­part­ed in the space of sev­en balls.

Smith hit two six­es and was caught in the deep hit­ting to leg for 14.

Gayle, who has just re­turned from in­jury, top scored with 18 in­clud­ing three fours but lost his wick­et chip­ping Alex Cu­sack to long-on.

West In­dies, scor­ing at less than a run a ball, slid fur­ther to 58 for three af­ter los­ing Samuels for 16, stumped.

Dwayne Bra­vo and Lendl Sim­mons ral­lied in the sec­ond biggest part­ner­ship of the in­nings, 20, for the third wick­et.

Bra­vo was caught at third man for eight, Sim­mons was caught in the deep for 16 while Tim Murtagh yorked An­dre Rus­sell for 15.

Tim Murtagh, Alex Cu­sack, Kevin O'Bri­an picked up two wick­ets each for Ire­land.

Ire­land found them­selves in trou­ble ear­ly in their chase af­ter open­ers William Porter­field and Paul Stir­ling were dis­missed in­side eight balls.

But Ed Joyce led the way with an un­beat­en 40 and shared in two im­por­tant part­ner­ships that pro­vid­ed the main foun­da­tion for Ire­land's vic­to­ry.

Joyce , who hit two fours in a com­posed in­nings,and Gary Wil­son adding 29 in 5.2 overs for the third wick­et as West In­dies bowlers toiled in the field.

Joyce al­so shared in a 58 run stand with An­drew Poyn­ter which brought Ire­land well with­in reach of vic­to­ry.

Kevin O'Brien, one of two sur­vivors from the team that beat Pak­istan at Sabi­na Park dur­ing the 2007 World Cup, hit the win­ning runs.

Samuel Badree, who played a ma­jor role in putting Ire­land on pres­sure in the ear­li­er part of their in­nings, fin­ished with two for 18 from his four overs.

The two sides meet in the fi­nals T20 match of the se­ries to­mor­row. CMC

Score­board

WEST IN­DIES inns

D Smith c Sorensen b Murtagh 14

C Gayle c Dock­rell b Cu­sack 18

M Samuels st �Wil­son b Dock­rell 16

L Sim­mons c Thomp­son b Cu­sack 16

D Bra­vo c O'Brien b Sorensen 8

A Rus­sell b Murtagh 15

D Sam­my b O'Brien 7

D Ramdin c Wil­son b O'Brien 4

S Nar­ine not out 6

S Badree not out 3

Ex­tras: (lb 2, w 7) 9

To­tal: (8 wick­ets,20 overs) 116

Did not bat: R Ram­paul

Fall of wick­ets: 1-31, 2-38, 3-58, 4-77, 5-79, 6-98, 7-106, 8-107

Bowl­ing: Stir­ling 2-0-14-0,Sorensen 4-0-23-1, Murtagh 4-0-28-2, Cu­sack 4-0-17-2,O'Brien 2-0-17-2, Dock­rell 4-0-15-1.

IRE­LAND inns

W Porter­field lbw b Badree 4

P Stir­ling c Rus­sell b Ram­paul 0

E Joyce not out 40

G Wil­son b Badree 18

A Poyn­ter b Nar­ine 32

K O'Brien not out 15

Ex­tras: (lb 5, w 3) 8

To­tal: (4 wick­ets, 19.1 overs) 117

Did not bat M Sorensen, S Thomp­son, A Cu­sack, T Murtagh, G Dock­rell

Fall of wick­ets 1-4, 2-8, 3-37, 4-95

Bowl­ing: Badree 4-0-18-2, Ram­paul 3.1, 0-27-1, Nar­ine 4-0-16-1, Sam­my 3-0-16-0, Samuels 1-0-7-0, Bra­vo 3-0-21-0, Rus­sell 1-0-7-0

Toss–West In­dies, who chose to bat

Se­ries–Ire­land led the 2-match se­ries 1-0

Um­pires–GO Brath­waite and JS Wil­son

Match ref­er­ee–D Govin­d­jee (South Africa)

Re­serve um­pire–N Duguid


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