Ireland Beat Bangladesh in 1st ODI of series

Bangladesh was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International series in Ireland in 2010. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 4 and 8. The 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on Civil Service Cricket Club, Belfast, Ireland on 15th July 2010. Bangladesh holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

Ireland won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like in this 1st ONE DAY international match: Abdur Razzak, Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Syed Rasel, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique, Mahmudullah Riad, Imrul Kayes,Rubel Hossain, Jahurul Islam

And Ireland team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Trent Johnston, John Mooney, William Porterfield (c), Boyd Rankin, Andrew White, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien (wk), Alex Cusack, Gary Wilson, Paul Stirling, George Dockrell.

Bangladesh batted well and was able to post total of 234 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and with top scores of Junaid S who made 100 runs in 123 balls with 9 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 81 runs in 100 balls and S A Hasan who made 50 runs in 78 balls with 3 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 64 runs in 100 balls.

Ireland was needed to score 234 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Ireland batted well and was able to chase the target of 234 runs in 45 over’s at the loss of 3 wicket and won the game by 7 wickets in hand and with top contributions from William P who made 108 runs in 116 balls with 7 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 93 runs in 100 balls.

Ireland won the match by 7 wickets in hand and series stands at 1-0 in favor of Ireland with 6 more games to play.

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