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. Greg Molins
    Former Ireland spinner

    Gareth Delaney is giving Ireland the hope that they can put up a defendable score.

  2. Ire 132-7

    Gareth Delany is farming the strike with three overs to go. He has 31 from 14 balls.

    160 may not be out of the question.

  3. Greg Molins
    Former Ireland spinner

    Gareth Delany is one of these players who will hit the ball in different areas. He really is a great striker of the ball, he won't hang around.

  4. 6 runs

    Ire 131-7

    Two in two!

    Jacob Bethell comes in for a chat with his young (older than him) bowler.

  5. Michael McNamee
    BBC Test Match Special

    Sonny Baker is getting flashbacks to his ODI debut.

  6. 6 runs

    Ire 125-7

    Swung over deep square-leg! Sonny Baker is going the distance again.

  7. Ire 119-7

    More runs off Sonny Baker's bowling. He misses with the yorker and Gareth Delany times it through the covers for four.

  8. Sonny Baker, whose first two overs cost 24, is back.

  9. Ire 114-7

    Delany 14, Humphreys 1

    Delany has squeezed this one through too. There is not a big gap between short third and backward point but the right-hander has found it.

    12 from the over.

  10. Kyle McCallan
    Ex-Ireland all-rounder

    Gareth Delany stands like a baseball player. He was ready for that shot, feet set and he sent it big.

  11. 6 runs

    Ire 110-7

    Shot! Gareth Delany thwacks a Luke Wood short ball over mid-wicket to get the score moving again.

  12. Matthew Humphreys is the new batter - something he's not known for.

  13. Kyle McCallan
    Ex-Ireland all-rounder

    Credit to Jacob Bethell because he's brought the slip in, which forced Barry McCarthy to bring the pad into play.

  14. wicket

    WICKET

    McCarthy lbw b Rashid 0 (Ire 102-7)

    Plumb. Ireland's innings is falling into a bit of a heap as Adil Rashid pins Barry McCarthy for a first-ball duck.

    He just didn't pick the googly.

  15. Michael McNamee
    BBC Test Match Special

    That's definitely out.

  16. It's the googly. It's just whether it has turned too much and will miss leg stump.

  17. Ireland review

    And now Adil Rashid has Barry McCarthy given lbw first ball!

    McCarthy sends it upstairs in hope.

  18. Kyle McCallan
    Ex-Ireland all-rounder

    Adil Rashid took the pace off, back of the length, safely held by Jacob Bethell, Ben Calitz has to go. England will be delighted, they're now into the bowlers.

  19. wicket

    WICKET

    Calitz c Bethell b Rashid 22 (Ire 102-6)

    Not this time.

    Ireland debutant Ben Calitz tries to repeat that slog sweep but only gets the tamest of top edges.

    Adil Rashid has his first wicket of the day.

  20. Michael McNamee
    BBC Test Match Special

    What a way for Ireland to get into three figures.