Cricket Sportlive March 2, 2024

Afghanistan vs Ireland Test Match: For first time in history, Ireland has defeated Afghanistan in Test

Afghanistan vs Ireland Test Match: Ireland team has created history in Test cricket and registered its first victory. Irish team defeated Afghanistan. This is their first win in Test history after playing seven matches.

Afghanistan vs Ireland Test Match: Ireland team has created history in Test cricket. Before this match from 2018 to 2024, Ireland had played six Test series and lost. During this period, the team had played seven matches and had lost all of them. Now the Irish team has created history on Friday 1st March. Ireland defeated Afghanistan by 6 wickets in the test match played in UAE (Abu Dhabi). This match ended on the third day itself. Even after including all four innings, 800 runs were not scored in this match. The performance of Ireland’s bowlers was seen.

Afghanistan vs Ireland Test Match: For first time in history, Ireland has defeated Afghanistan in Test — credit image : Google

What was the condition of the match

Afghanistan’s batsmen proved to be a complete flop in the first innings. Mark Adder broke the back of the Afghan team by taking 5 wickets for Ireland. The entire Afghanistan team was reduced to 155 runs. Craig Young and Curtis Campher also got 2-2 successes. After this, in the second innings the Irish team scored 263 runs and took a lead of 108 runs on Afghanistan’s score. In the second innings, Afghanistan team collapsed after scoring only 218 runs and took a lead of 110 runs. Ireland got the target of 111 runs. Afghanistan achieved this target by losing 4 wickets on the third day.

Bowler Mark Adder was the hero of victory in this match for Ireland, who took 8 wickets in both the innings. Apart from this, Craig Young got a total of 5 successes in both the innings. Talking about batting, Paul Sterling played a half-century of 52 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, captain Andrew Balbirnie played an unbeaten inning of 58 runs.