West Indies vs Ireland

10.5 <Out> Spinners have continued to create troubles in the Windies camp, the slow bowlers disturbing their peace. Evin Lewis was dealing in ones and twos ...

West Indies lost their opening match against Scotland, and a loss here will see them out of the World Cup. The team’s succession to the next round will not depend on the other teams’ contest in their group. West Indies will face Ireland in their last group A match at the 2022 T20 World Cup. Follow us on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/firstpostin), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/firstpost) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/firstpost/). West Indies find themselves at an exciting juncture in the tournament as the two-time world champions’ current campaign will depend on the match against Ireland, wherein a loss will fail them to play in the main round of the World Cup. A win in Hobart will take the team to the next round, whereas a defeat will ensure their knockout from the tournament.

The winner of this match will progress through to the Super 12s. Ireland: 1 Andy Balbirnie (capt), 2 Paul Stirling, 3 Lorcan Tucker (wk), 4 Harry Tector, ...

West Indies have the firepower of Brandon King up the order after the batter had missed the Zimbabwe game with illness. Johnson Charles, who had replaced King at the time, retained his place, having impressed with a quickfire 36-ball 45. At the time of the toss, though, conditions were visibility brighter with a stiff breeze blowing across the ground.

West Indies vs Ireland Live Cricket Score: Get the Live Score Updates, Match Scorecard, Commentary and Highlights as WI takes on IRE in the 11th Group B ...

Winner advances into the Super 12s while the loser will head home, an early exit from the T20 World Cup. Kyle Mayers and Johnson Charles are out in the middle and it will be Joshua Little with the new ball. WI 9/0 after 2 overs: Kyle Mayers and Johnson Charles eye to give West Indies a good start in a do-or-die battle in Hobart and it’s the pace of Joshua Little that has cramped the West Indies batsmen. The partnership is 40 off 34 balls and Ireland needs to make further inroads. He will be the key for West Indies. The Ireland spinners have pinched the ego of the big West Indian hitters by tossing the ball and luring to go for the bog shots.

Disciplined bowling restricted the Caribbean side to 146-5, with Gareth Delany taking a career-best 3-16, before the Irish romped to their target for the loss ...

The spin of Akeal Hosein finally gave the West Indies a breakthrough in the eighth over with Balbirnie caught by Mayers after an entertaining 37 off 23 balls to end a decisive opening stand. In reply, Ireland got off to a cracking start with Stirling and Balbirnie on a mission, blazing 54 off the first five overs, with eight boundaries, four of them sixes. The West Indies won the tournament in 2012 and 2016, but came to Australia with a new-look team after the likes of Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard retired, and Andre Russell was overlooked.

A defeat in a must-win Round 1 fixture meant the end of the line of the two time champions at the 2022 World Cup.

Even though Akeal Hosein did provide the Windies with a breakthrough, it made little difference in context of the game as keeper batter Lorcan Tucker then took the proceedings ahead with Sterling, who went on to score his 21st T20I fifty. Winning the toss, West Indies opted to bat first in Hobart. Paul Stirling and skipper Andre Balbirnie 73 runs off 45 deliveries to set the chase.