Live Cricket Score United Arab Emirates vs Ireland, 1st ODI at Dubai: Ireland win by 85 runs
Live Cricket Score United Arab Emirates vs Ireland, 1st ODI at Dubai: Ireland win by 85 runs
Good morning! Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live cricket blog of the first of the two-match One-Day International (ODI) series between the hosts United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Ireland. The match is being played at the ICC Global Cricket Academy Ground in Dubai. I am Athira Ramanathan, and I will be bringing to you the live cricket updates from this tie. This will the first time that Ireland are touring the UAE. This will serve as warm-up games for Ireland, who are posed to take on Afghanistan in an ODI and Twenty20 International (T20I) series. This will act an able platform for UAE to play against a higher-ranked side. LIVE CRICKET SCORECARD, United Arab Emirates vs Ireland – 1st ODI
Ireland, under William Porterfield, will want to make good use of this outing to keep his players in good form before a crucial series against Afghanistan. Ireland. within their ranks. have the experience of Ed Joyce, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien, Paul Stirling and Gary Williamson to pull them through. The influx of Jacob Mulder, Barry McCarthy and Andy Balbirnie makes this side quite agile and quick in the field.
The only ODI match between both teams saw Ireland coming out victorious. Ireland won that fixture by just 2 wickets in the final over chasing UAE’s target of 279 runs in the Pool B ICC World Cup 2015 match in Brisbane. UAE have still not announced their squad, but will in all likelihood have players like Rohan Mustafa, Shaiman Anwar, Mohammad Naveed, Amjad Javed and Imran Haider to take field.
All eyes will be on Mohammad Qasim, Zahoor Khan, and Mohammad Umsad after their good show in the UAE Tri-Nation series.
Squads:
UAE: Squad yet to be announced
Ireland: Andy Balbirnie, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Andy McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Jacob Mulder, Tim Murtagh, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien, William Porterfield (c), Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson (wk), Craig Young