Ireland vs Afghanistan Scorecard, 1st T20I, Afghanistan vs Ireland 2019
Result · Feb 21 2019, Thu - 06:30 PM (IST)
1st T20I, - Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium
IRELAND132/6
AFGHANISTAN136/5
Afghanistan won by 5 wickets
CRR:7.03
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Afghanistan v Ireland in India 2019 |
| Date: | Feb 21 2019, Thu - 06:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | India |
| City: | Dehradun |
| Venue: | Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium |
| Toss: | Ireland won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Afghanistan Playing XI: | Asghar Afghan (c), Hazratullah Zazai, Mohammad Nabi, Shafiqullah (wk), Najibullah Zadran, Samiullah Shenwari, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karim Janat, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Farid Malik |
| Ireland Playing XI: | Paul Stirling (c), Andrew Balbirnie, Shane Getkate, Simi Singh, Kevin O'Brien, Stuart Poynter (wk), George Dockrell, Joshua Little, Boyd Rankin, Peter Chase, Stuart Thompson |
- This will be the third bilateral T20I series between Afghanistan and Ireland, Afghanistan winning both of the previous bilateral series; doing so by margins of 2-0 (2018) and 3-0 (2017).
- Afghanistan and Ireland have been involved in 12 completed T20I fixtures before; Afghanistan have managed to win nine of them (L3).
- Afghanistan have recorded victories in all seven of their T20I fixtures since the start of 2018, including two meetings with Ireland; the Irish have only managed to register three wins in their 11 outings during the same period (T1 L7).
- Afghanistan have only ever tasted defeat in one multi-game bilateral T20I series (W9 D1); losing 0-3 to the Windies in 2017.
- Ireland have lost in all five of their previous T20I matches to have taken place in India; including three defeats to Afghanistan (one against the Netherlands and one versus Oman).
- Afghanistan have played three T20Is before at the Ranjiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Dehradun, beating Bangladesh on every occasion in those three fixtures there last June.
- Rashid Khan (Afghanistan) has taken eight wickets in his three T20I appearances at this venue in Dehradun, averaging just 6.1 across those outings; this includes taking match figures of 4/12 versus Bangladesh there on June 5th, 2018.
- Afghanistan's Rashid Khan claimed his best-ever T20 bowling figures versus Ireland, managing to pick up five wickets for the price of just three runs (March 2017); only Sri Lanka's Ajantha Mendis (twice) and India's Yuzvendra Chahal have ever registered better figures in a T20I game.
- Samiullah Shenwari has the opportunity to become only the fourth batsman to reach 1,000 T20I runs for Afghanistan (Mohammad Shahzad, Asghar Afghan & Mohammad Nabi); he needs 32 in order to get there.
- Hazratullah Zazai (Afghanistan) posted a score of 82 off only 54 balls when his side was last involved in a completed T20I against Ireland; the third-highest innings score ever recorded in a T20I fixture between these teams.