Summary

  • Canada shock Ireland for their first win at a T20 World Cup

  • Canada, who are lowest-ranked side in the tournament, win by 12 runs in New York

  • Nicholas Kirton makes 49 in Canada's 137-7

  • Jeremy Gordon and Dillon Heyliger both take wickets as Ireland restricted to 125-7

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Live Reporting

Stephan Shemilt

  1. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Sounds

    Canada not being able to find the boundary as often as they liked. They're going to be way shy of 150.

  2. Can 130-6

    Mark Adair to bowl the final over.

    The captain has come in for Canada, Saad Bin Zafar pushing into the covers for a single.

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Heyliger c Little b McCarthy 0 (Can 128-6)

    Two-ball cameo from Dillon Heyliger!

    He came out swinging and holed out to Josh Little at long-on.

  4. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Sounds

    He stayed low but also jumped in the air, Nicholas Kirton looks very frantic.

    Ireland fans celebrate a wicketGetty Images
  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Kirton c Balbirnie b McCarthy 49 (Can 128-5)

    Curtains for Kirton!

    No half-century on this occasion, he falls one shot as Barry McCarthy picks up his first wicket.

  6. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Sounds

    If Canada get 150 I am saying they are favourites.

  7. Paul ZiesmannGetty Images

    Paul, whose surname is Ziesmann, will be pleased to know we've trailed the archives and found a picture of him in action for Canada U19s against India at that World Cup...

  8. Can 126-4

    Back comes Mark Adair, a decent over and the Canada batters are unable to send him to the ropes.

    His fourth delivery is called for a head-height wide, with Movva doing a funky step back and forth before the ball came down - I'd have been intrigued to know what shot he planned to play.

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

    Canada fans Paul and DigvijayBBC Sport

    It's been quite a jorney to get here for Canada fans Paul and Digvijay.

    They have travelled the best part of three hours to get to Winnipeg, the province of Manitoba then flew from there to Toronto. They then drove down to New York.

    "It's been a bit like the film Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but we've made it," says Paul.

    This is not Paul's first World Cup. He played for Canada at the Under-19 version in New Zealand in 2002.

    "I was one of the first local Canadian players to come through a cricket programme aimed at kids," he adds. "I had the time of my life playing the game and travelling the world."

  10. Can 119-4

    Four more for Kirton, lashing Josh Little over extra cover. He's moving towards a half-century, sitting on 46 at the end of the over.

    That's Little done too - figures of 0-37, the Irish spearhead struggling again.

  11. 6 runs

    Canada 110-4

    Another six for Kirton!

    He lifts Young over mid-off, the ball landing just clear of the ropes.

    Meanwhile a single between the sixes brought up the fifty partnership.

    Young finishes with figures of 2-32 - 28 of those runs came from his last two overs, including 18 from this one.

  12. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Elegant shots both of them, the first two sixes of the innings.

  13. 6 runs

    Can 102-4

    Hundred up for Canada - the first time a side has reached that mark in three matches at this stadium.

    Nicholas Kirton brings up with successive boundaries, striking Craig Young down the ground for the match's first six, then turning the ball around the corner for four.

  14. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Sounds

    Harry Tector dived to his left hand side with outstanding fielding.

  15. Can 92-4

    Better over from Barry McCarthy.

    He sees Harry Tector dive impressively to cut off Kirton's shot at backward point, then lifts a ball past the gloves of the Canada batter, who just about manages to move his hands out of the way.

    Just two singles from the over - he'd gone for twenty from his first two.

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

    Cricket fan Michael from CanadaBBC Sport

    Michael from Toronto has only seen cricket on the television, and decided to make the trip down to New York to support Canada.

    "It's my first live game actually at a cricket ground," he tells me from behind one of the huge temporary stands here in New York.

    "I follow a lot of different sports and, of course, there's elements of baseball which cross over to cricket. Hopefully Canada can get the win!"

  17. Can 90-4

    Signs of Canada trying to up the rate a little here, as they hustle through quick runs from every Josh Little ball.

    All singles, bar a three for Kirton clipped down to backward square.

  18. Andrew Leonard
    Irish cricket commentator on BBC Sounds

    Canada are adjusting significantly better despite Ireland having the advantage of playing previously on this ground.

    I would make this 75-25 in their favour at the moment. It feels like it is slipping away from Ireland.

  19. Can 82-4

    Canada get those boundaries - two of them - as Craig Young returns.

    Shreyas Movva plays a shot over mid-wicket, his bottom-hand coming off the bat on the follow-through, before driving through the covers.

    Young responds to his figures being spoiled by sending down a searing bouncer that raps Movva's gloves, the batter looking around desperately to see where the ball was going to land - fortunately for him, short of the fielder.

  20. Andrew Leonard
    Irish cricket commentator on BBC Sounds

    Ireland should get the best of the batting conditions now. You would hope that would bake the surface and make it flatter. Ireland have to consider their net run-rate after losing to India.