1st T20I : Ireland vs. West Indies Jan 15 2020

AT St.George, Grenada

Ireland won the toss and elected to bat ~

West Indies
1 Lendl Simmons, 2 Evin Lewis, 3 Shimron Hetmyer, 4 Nicholas Pooran (wk), 5 Kieron Pollard (capt),
6 Sherfane Rutherford, 7 Dwayne Bravo, 8 Hayden Walsh, 9 Khary Pierre, 10 Kesrick Williams, 11 Sheldon Cottrell.

Ireland:
1 Paul Stirling, 2 Kevin O'Brien, 3 Andy Balbirnie (capt), 4 Gareth Delany, 5 Harry Tector, 6 Gary Wilson (wk)
7 Simi Singh, 8 George Dockrell, 9 Barry McCarthy, 10 Josh Little, 11 Craig Young

0.3
Cottrell to Stirling, FOUR, and Stirling gets off the mark with a streaky stroke. Looks to carve it through point,
gets a thick outside edge that flies to the right of the lone wide slip in the cordon

1.6
Pierre to Stirling, FOUR runs, fired into the pads again, and Stirling swipes, quite effectlve, manages to hit it flat
1.5
Pierre to Stirling, SIX runs, bam.

35 after 3

2.5 Cottrell to O'Brien, FOUR, full outside off, with an open face, to lift it over backward point
2.2 Cottrell to O'Brien, SIX, wallop.

51 after 4

3.5 Kesrick Williams to Stirling, SIX , a full slower one, and he lofts it up and over cover !
3.1 Kesrick to O'Brien, SIX, back of a length on off stump. Picked the length so early !

69 after 5 overs

4.3 BraBits to Stirling, SIX runs, frees his arms through a lovely lofted drive, over long-off this time
4.2 BraBits to Stirling, SIX runs, another slower ball.
4.1 BraBits to Stirling, FOUR runs, starts with a slower ball, but the line is all wrong :whistle:

93 after 6

Great 50 to Paul Stirling : Sterling performance !

5.5 Pierre to Stirling, FOUR runs, deep backward square leg moved a little finer after the previous ball
5.4 Pierre to Stirling, FOUR down on his back knee and sweeps to the right of the fielder at deep backward square leg
5.2 Pierre to Stirling, SIX runs, Change of angle, no change in outcome

This is the most productive powerplay in all T20Is. :whistle:

106 after 7 overs

RR: 15.14 : Kevin O'Brien 33*, Paul Stirling 69*