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by Ffion Wynne & Mike Peter

  1. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    This isn't good. One is rolling along the floor, the next has whacked Harry Tector on the hand and that could easily be a finger-breaker.

    As a batter it's so hard because you're constantly wondering what the pitch is going to do next.

    We haven't even seen Jasprit Bumrah yet. Every bowler is going to be a handful on this pitch but Jasprit Bumrah is going to be an absolute nightmare!

  2. Ire 26-2

    I think we can call it - this is a decidedly uneven pitch again in New York.

    A length ball from Arshdeep rears up and strikes Harry Tector on the gloves. Another delivery skews wide with barely a hint of a bounce.

    Arshdeep has been struggling with extras in this over, the aforementioned wide is one of four, including one that flies away for five runs - perhaps he's getting too excited?

    The ten-ball over is closed by Tucker smacking a delivery on the up through the covers - the outfield slows the ball down, but it reaches the ropes.

  3. Timothy Abraham
    BBC Sport at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, New York

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    The loss of those two wickets is a setback for Ireland. The Irish journalists here are taking solace in donut-flavoured coffee which must be a first for a cricket press box, surely?

  4. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

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    Ireland just need to re-assess and take some time, even though it's still the powerplay. 120 could be a competitive score on a pitch like this.

  5. Prakash Wakankar
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Hitting aerially is probably a decent option, take the outfield and the surface out of the equation.

    A smart shot from Tucker.

  6. Ire 13-2

    Five dot balls from Siraj, who seems to be enjoying fizzing the ball down on this uneven pitch.

    They're punctuated by Tucker's first boundary, playing the scoop to lift the ball over the wicketkeeper.

  7. Double blow for Irish

    Alvin McCaig
    BBC Sport NI

    This is just the start Ireland wanted to avoid with their star batting duo of Paul Stirling and Andrew Balbirnie both departing.

    It's up to Lorcan Tucker and Harry Tector to steady the ship and hopefully help Ireland to a decent total.

    That will be difficult on such a tricky pitch and against a potent Indian attack.

  8. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Balbirnie didn't look comfortable. Arshdeep troubled him with a nasty short ball earlier in the over and that has had an effect because he was backing away, and for that one his feet just didn't move.

    I think the inconsistent bounce is playing on his mind there.

  9. Prakash Wakankar
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    He's absolutely shattered the stumps there. Andrew Balbirnie didn't know much about that, or any of that over really.

    It is already looking like it was a very, very important toss to win.

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    WICKET

    Balbirnie b Arshdeep 5 (Ire 9-2)

    That's the other opener gone!

    A tentative prod at the ball from Balbirnie from a delivery on the stumps, he couldn't handle the pace of the delivery.

    Ireland have two new batters at the crease now in Lorcan Tucker and Harry Tector - can they do any better than their predecessors?

  11. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    That's a soft dismissal, Paul Stirling will be frustrated because he's a better player than that.

    Especially when he'll know the nature of this slow pitch, it's not the right shot. He's just taken a big heave across the line.

  12. Prakash Wakankar
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

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    Paul Stirling couldn't resist it. He was trying to whack it into Eisenhower Park!

  13. wicket

    WICKET

    Stirling c Pant b Arshdeep 2 (Ire 7-1)

    Big heave across the line... leading edge and caught, Stirling has to go!

    Perhaps conscious Ireland weren't taking advantage of the powerplay, the Ireland opener tried to slog to leg off Arshdeep but could only send the ball spiralling high into the air behind the wicket, with Pant taking the catch running back.

  14. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It's already showing signs of being a two-paced pitch but I don't mind that. It's nice to have a contest between bat and ball in T20 cricket, which has been so favourable to the batters recently.

    A pitch where somewhere between 140-170 is a par score, that makes things interesting.

  15. Prakash Wakankar
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Just a little bit wayward from Siraj, an easy one for Balbirnie to just help round the corner.

  16. Ire 7-0

    Mohammed Siraj takes the ball for India at the other end and he starts by rattling off four dot balls to his own to Balbirnie.

    The pitch is certainly explosive in places - Arshdeep's final ball was a mighty bouncer, and Pant has to leap to block another of Siraj's flying for four byes.

    Balbirnie gets the boundary anyway, turning a freebie on the legs round the corner for four.

  17. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Another feature of this ground is the outfield, it is sandy and it's slow. On pretty much every other pitch that's four, that's racing through the covers.

    You've got to run the first run hard with this outfield.

  18. Ire 3-0

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    Stirling plays a silky drive through the covers - in any other circumstances that would be four, but the outfield looks very slow and a fielder is able to chase the ball down.

    Arshdeep closes down the over by banging down four dot balls. One shapes nicely away from Stirling, the ball sending up a puff of sand as it lands short of keeper Rishabh Pant.

  19. Ire 1-0

    Balbirnie flicks Arshdeep off his pads to get Ireland off the mark from the opening delivery.

  20. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    India are the better team today, and with their strength in depth and the quality of the IPL, they should be winning world tournaments regularly.

    But when you get on pitches like this and they don't play franchise cricket anywhere else in the world, it becomes more difficult because you're not used to the surfaces or the conditions elsewhere.