The 3ed T20I match between Ireland and India was called off due to rain. (Twitter/Cricket Ireland)IND vs IRE 3rd T20 Highlights: The third T20 between India and Ireland on Wednesday was called off due to incessant rain. India won the three-match series 2-0.
Before start of play, the Jasprit Bumrah-led young side was seen celebrating Chandrayaan-3’s successful landing on moon’s south pole, making India the first nation to do so.
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India will now focus all their attention towards the Asia Cup which will begin on August 30. The Indian team will face archrivals Pakistan on September 2.
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That's it. As we had feared, the match has officially been called off. The players shake hans and that's that from the middle. India win the series 2-0.
The second inspection might be because the rain has stopped and the covers are coming off. We'll know soon enough. Till then, stay tuned for more updates.
Still nothing much to report. The umpires have had an inspection and there'll be another one inspection at around 5.45 PM local time which is 10.15 PM IST, according to a Cricket Ireland tweet.
According to various reports, it's still raining there and the chances of a match happening looks very, very slim. We'll keep our fingers crossed till the official announcements though.
It's almost 9.15 PM and there has hardly being any improvement in the weather conditions. So unlikely the match will start by the alloted time and we are surely set to lose overs, if not the entire match.
"Update: The drizzle hasn't stopped yet. No overs lost so far but we we will start losing overs from 9:15 PM IST," reads a BCCI tweet.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday announced BookMyShow as the official ticketing platform for the 2023 Cricket World Cup.
The tournament will feature a total of 58 matches, including 10 warm-up fixtures, hosted across 12 prominent venues throughout India. (Read more about world cup tickets)
Comeback man Bumrah, India’s captain for Ireland series, moved up seven places to reach the 84th position, Bishnoi has jumped 17 spots to reach 65th.
September 29:
BAN vs SL in Guwahati
SA vs AFG in Thiruvananthapuram
NZ vs PAK in Hyderabad
September 30:
IND vs ENG in Guwahati
AUS vs NED in Thiruvananthapuram
October 2:
ENG vs BAN in Guwahati
NZ vs SA in Thiruvananthapuram
October 3:
AFG vs SL in Guwahati
IND vs NED in Thiruvananthapuram
PAK vs AUS in Hyderabad
India batter Shubman Gill on Wednesday moved up one spot to reach the fourth position in ICC rankings for batters in ODI cricket, while pacer Jasprit Bumrah and spinner Ravi Bishnoi also made gains in the shortest format
Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya (v/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna.
On Wednesday, India scripted history as ISRO’s ambitious third Moon mission Chandrayaan-3’s Lander Module (LM) touched down on the lunar surface, making it only the fourth country to accomplish the feat, and first to reach the uncharted south pole of Earth’s only natural satellite.
In a big boost to India’s space prowess, the LM comprising the lander (Vikram) and the 26 kg rover (Pragyan), made the soft landing near the south polar region of the Moon at 6.04 pm,,less than a week after a similar Russian lander crashed.
With this touchdown on moon in second attempt in four years, India has become the fourth country to master the technology of soft-landing on the lunar surface after the US, China and the erstwhile Soviet Union.
The inconsequential third game gives this think-tank a chance to check out players like Avesh Khan, Jitesh Sharma, Shahbaz Ahmed, who haven’t yet got a game in the series.
Varma closed the five-match T20I series against West Indies as top scorer for India with 173 runs, averaging 57.67 and scoring at a strike rate over 140.
“I never dreamed that I would be debuting directly in the Asia Cup in the ODI side. I always thought that I would be debuting for India but it is a big thing for me. Playing for India, that too in a single year I got a T20 debut and the next month I get a call for the Asia Cup. I’m just preparing for it,” said Tilak Varma.
“Those five sixes changed my life. People remember me for that moment. I was feeling great when they took my name and the love they have been showering me with,” Rinku Singh said during an interaction with his Indian teammate Ravi Bishnoi on BCCI.tv.
The weather for the second T20I is sunny and pleasant throughout the day however, a bit of rain is anticipated for the third T20I.
Arshdeep Singh has been in India’s go-to bowler in the T20I, since making his debut in July last year. The left-arm seamer has bagged 49 wickets in the 32 outings. But his death bowling has been a major concern in the recent past. He gave away 22 in the final over as Barry McCarthy smashed two sixes and a four in the last over. India might rope in Mukesh Kumar, who has recently made his debut in the all three formats in the West Indies. Mukesh was used only in the death overs by Hardik Pandya against West Indies and the Bengal pacer has impressed everyone with his yorkers. India bowling coach Paras Mhambrey says pacer Mukesh Kumar has shown potential to serve India in all three formats.
The average score batting first at Malahide is 167. Spinners might tend to struggle at this venue because of the small ground dimensions. The pacers might get help from the pitch but overall, it has always been a batting paradise.
Matches played: 7
Ireland won: 0
India won: 7
Tied: 0
No Result: 0
Ross Adair, Paul Stirling (C), Andrew Balbirnie, Lorcan Tucker (WK), Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, Mark Adair, Barry McCarthy, Craig Young, Theo van Woerkom, Benjamin White
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson (WK), Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma/Shivam Dube, Shahbaz Ahmed/Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Prasidh Krishna, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh/Mukesh Kumar
Welcome to the third and final T20I between India and Ireland. With India already sealing the series today we might see some debut caps given away and some fresh faces. Though Ireland has played well in the first T20I they have been outplayed in the second one and would be looking for some rhythm in the final go. Please don't go anywhere stay with us for all the live updates.