Ireland v Pakistan

The other bowlers AC Botha and McCallan followed suit by capturing two wickets each and DT Johnston and KJ O'Brain got 1 wicket each. However the bowling of the Irish team lacked discipline in few occasion as they swayed away from line and length to concede 23 wide balls.

The rest of the Pakistani batsmen showed no sense of responsibility and got out due to very poor shot selection. Kamran Akmal put some resistance with a 27 runs knock. Pakistan was all out at a meager total of 132 runs from 45.4 overs.

Spirited Irish batting
Although the target was low Ireland made a heavy weather of it. This time the opner JP Bray(Man of the Match in the match against Zimbabwe withhis 115 notout)-got out with Irelandat 7. However it is not always easy to put up against a murderous Pakistani bowling attack. The Irish batsmen never let the spirit die off and held their ground in the middle. NJ O’Brian stood tall among all the Irish batsmen by scoring 72 runs from 107 balls. His patient effort to stick to the wicket and see the opposition through earned him lots of accolades. The other batsmen to support him in the cause were William Portefield with 13 runs and KJ O’Brian with 16 not out runs. The rest of the Irish batting did not add much to the Irish total.

Duckworth-Lewis Method comes into play
At 27.3 overs with the Irish score at 81 for 4, the match was suspended due to rain.At this point,22.3 overs remaind and Ireland had 6 wivkets in hand.Percentage Resource available to Ireland at suspension of match is 47.5%
If rain does not stop, then the Irish have lost this much resourse and under the D-L Method the target would become(100-47.5)*131/100 roundedup = 69 runs and Ireland have scored 81 runs. So if the if the rain does not stop and as minimum 20 overs have been bowled, under the D-L method.Ireland have acrossed the target of 69 runs.

Good News, rain has stopped and 3 overs have been lost, resulting in Ireland losing 3% of their resource. Therefore revised target is (100-3)*131/100 rounded up = 128 runs.

So Ireland have to acheive 128 from 47 overs that is 47 runs more from 19.3 overs i.e Run Rate required 2.41 runs per over(Present Run Rate is 2.945 runs per over)