Summary

  • Third T20, Dublin

  • England chase 155 to win by six wickets with 17 balls to spare

  • Tourists win three-match series 2-0

  • England 155-4 (17.1 overs): Cox 55 (35), Banton 37* (26)

  • Ireland 154-8 (20 overrs): Delaney 48 (29); Rashid 3-29

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter & Matthew Henry

  1. Michael McNamee
    BBC Test Match Special

    When Gareth Delaney hits the ball, he times it so beautifully.

  2. Ire 152-8

    In the slot and lifted over mid-off for four by Gareth Delany!

  3. Ire 148-8

    Full toss... Baker gets away with it.

  4. Ire 148-8

    A good yorker this time from Baker.

  5. Bethell comes in for a chat again.

  6. Ire 148-8

    Biffed down the ground for four.

    Baker needs to find something here.

  7. Ire 144-8

    Jacob Bethell is giving Sonny Baker, who has conceded 42 runs in three overs, the last over.

    He could have gone to Luke Wood but Bethell wants to see what Baker is made of.

    The first ball is a dot after another single is turned down.

  8. Greg Molins
    Former Ireland spinner

    I think half andhour ago we were worried, thought Ireland would've gotten 130 max. We always say you see the conditions of a wicket once the other team have batted.

  9. Ire 144-8

    Delany 38, Young 0

    Yep. Gareth Delany turns down a second run at the end of the 19th over. He will keep the strike for the last. Can Ireland get to 160?

  10. Greg Molins
    Former Ireland spinner

    This is a pretty special spell that we're seeing from Jamie Overton.

  11. Ire 143-8

    A chipped two for Delany. Now he'll surely just take the single? England won't mind that.

  12. Ire 141-8

    Make that four. Delany turns down a single which may not be the play with eight balls to go in the innings.

  13. Ire 141-8

    Jamie Overton has started the penultimate over with three dots.

  14. Ire 141-8

    Jordan Cox was able to walk off with a limp. He missed out on a Test debut last year because he broke a thumb in the nets.

  15. Jordan Cox is leaving the field with the physio after the decision is made. It's hard to work out what he's done there. Has his knee stuck in the ground? He has had a lot of bad luck with injury over the past couple of years.

  16. wicket

    WICKET

    Humphreys c Cox b Rashid 7 (Ire 141-8)

    As we suspected.

    Jordan Cox might have injured himself taking it, though.

  17. Umpire review

    Matthew Hunphreys is caught in the deep. They're just checking the catch but this looked fine.

  18. Kieran Parmley
    CricViz analyst

    England have been more willing to use spin at the death in T20Is this year with spinners bowling 30% of death overs in 2025, up from 20% last year.

  19. Ire 141-7

    Matthew Humphreys can do better than ones and twos! He reverse sweeps the great Adil Rashid for four.

  20. Ire 136-7

    It appears Ireland's are going to take ones and twos from Adil Rashid's over here.