Summary

  • England cruise to victory despite late loss of wickets

  • Salt, reprieved by no-ball on 51 off 22, clobbers 89 off 46

  • Buttler crashes 28 off 10 as England get off to flier

  • Ireland's 196-3 their highest T20 score against England

  • Tector and Tucker (55) share 123-run stand for third wicket

  • England go 1-0 up in three-game series; next match on Friday

Live Reporting

by Matthew Henry, Jonty Colman, Sam Drury & Esha Nayar

  1. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket reporter in Malahide

    SaltGetty Images

    Ireland will want to be bowling as many deliveries as possible at anyone who isn't Phil Salt.

  2. Eng 141-3

    Need 56 runs from 48 balls

    Ireland, to their credit, do not look a beaten side. Curtis Campher pulls off a diving stop on that S-shaped mid-wicket boundary to deny Phil Salt a four.

    Four from that over, which is a win for the hosts.

  3. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket reporter in Malahide

    SaltPA Media

    England really have broken the back of what could've been a really tricky chase. They weren't really on it with the ball, a lot of loose deliveries.

  4. 6 runs

    Eng 137-3

    Need 60 more runs from 54 balls

    I was just about to praise the over of Gareth Delany which had cost only one up until the final delivery.

    Needing to finish it off, Delany drops short and Salt thwacks it over deep square leg for six.

  5. England send in Sam Curran.

    They need 67 runs from 57 balls.

  6. Ed Joyce
    Ex-Ireland and England batter

    That's a good first three balls from Gareth Delany's over. Positive signs for Ireland.

  7. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket reporter in Malahide

    Two balls after being reprieved, Rehan Ahmed has played a wild hack. You have to say that that's a bit of a waste from him.

  8. wicket

    WICKET

    Ahmed b Delany 8 (Eng 130-3)

    This one is out though.

    Rehan Ahmed goes charging down the pitch, misses as a leggie from Gareth Delany keeps a little low and is bowled.

  9. Ed Joyce
    Ex-Ireland and England batter

    That's such a shame because Graham Hume put in so much effort to get there.

  10. Not out

    The third umpire says it has touched the ground.

    Hume doesn't look too disgruntled. He was never fully confident and Rehan Ahmed survives.

  11. Ed Joyce
    Ex-Ireland and England batter

    It does look like it's touched the ground.

  12. Hume got his hands there but he may have lost it out of his hands as he took the catch.

  13. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket reporter in Malahide

    Phil Salt just held his hand up and told Rehan Ahmed to wait.

  14. The quality of the cameras are not going to help us here. The ball is a blur of white as Graham Hume leaps forward.

  15. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket reporter in Malahide

    Rehan Ahmed is just stood there, he doesn't think that's carried.

  16. Umpire review

    Rehan Ahmed slices to short third. Has this carried?

    Ireland are celebrating. Kind-of.

  17. How's stat?!

    Kieran Parmley
    CricViz analyst

    YoungGetty Images

    The quickest successful chase of 190+ in a T20I between full member nations is 16.0 overs by Pakistan vs New Zealand in Auckland earlier this year, chasing down 205.

  18. Eng 130-2

    Salt 67, Ahmed 8

    It just keeps coming. Curtis Campher drops short again and Phil Salt swings away a pull this time.

    Is Phil Salt fully appreciated as a T20 cricketer in this country? Only Rohit Sharma and Glenn Maxwell have more hundreds. He could yet equal them today.

  19. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket reporter in Malahide

    Wonderful shot, Rehan Ahmed with no effort at all has just helped it over deep mid-wicket for a maximum.

  20. 6 runs

    Eng 123-2

    A six on the pull! Rehan Ahmed is into his work already.