Ireland turn to the right-arm off-spin of opening batsman Paul Stirling as they look to break the deadlock. He's quickly through his over, just a single is added, and now Ireland can put up to four men back outside the 30-yard circle.

Alan Lewis
Ex-Ireland batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"Back of a length is the length to bowl on this pitch. They've not found a consistent line and length so far so they'll be looking to pan the UAE back."

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It's 82 degrees Farenheit at the Gabba as Cusack sends down a very tight over from the Stanley Street End, just a single from it. The UAE batsmen - who surely won't be fazed by the heat - have made a solid start.

Jordan Davies:, external The UAE look like being stubborn opposition here. Ireland to win but not by much.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"It was an uppish drive. Kevin O'Brien flung himself to his left - he was probably six inches away from it."

Bright sunshine in Brisbane - they don't call it "tropical Queensland" for nothing, though the humidity's not as bad as it could be - and it's a long chase for George Dockrell who can't scoop the ball back from the long-off boundary before his legs crash into the boundary rope - earning Berenger four. You've got to be careful with those sorts of dives at the Gabba, as Simon Jones would attest from his injury in 2002. Amjad gets lucky as he cuts just wide of Kevin O'Brien at a wideish slip, and he's inches away from taking what would have been a sensational catch.

Alan Lewis
Ex-Ireland batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"Cusack for McBrine has probably been a horses-for-courses selection. Cusack has also been a go-to bowler for the captain."

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Time for a bit of local knowledge: Ireland turn to Alex Cusack, who was born in Brisbane, moved to Ireland at the age of 22. And if I mentioned Mooney's slight resemblance to a lumberjack a couple of overs ago, perhaps Cusack is the man to knock the UAE opener's stumps over - as he started out as a carpenter. But he doesn't have the wood on the Emirates pair just yet. Four runs from the over.

Alan Lewis
Ex-Ireland batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"Bowlers get excited when the ball hits the pad but umpire Michael Gough was quite rightly not interested in that."

I wonder how early Ireland captain William Porterfield might think about a bowling change, the longer they go without a wicket. For now, it's still Sorensen, just a single from the over. There's another appeal for leg before - more in hope than expectation - against Berenger.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"Three of the four lowest completed ODI first-innings totals in Australia in the past five years have come at Brisbane."

Amjad is batting well outside his crease against Mooney, who has the look of a rugged lumberjack hoping to knock over Amjad's timbers. Given that Brisbane's previous game - between Australia and Bangladesh - was abandoned without a ball bowled because of rain, fingers crossed we should get a full game in. Amjad helps himself to another three - with the size of the ground, we'll see a few of those today - while Berenger misses with a pull shot and there's an appeal for a catch down the leg side, though it just seemed to brush the batsman's tummy as it went through.

Alan Lewis
Ex-Ireland batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"The Irish bowlers are bowling two lengths here - they're not in the channel they were in against West Indies and they're paying the price here."

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Kishin Mahtani:, external Rooting for Ireland just to see one of the Test nations missing out on the quarter-finals.

Sorensen has two slips in, trying to angle the ball across the left-handed Amjad, and an inswinger clips his inside edge but scuttles past the stumps and away for four. Berenger is looking in decent touch too, there look to be plenty of runs in the pitch.

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Alan Lewis
Ex-Ireland batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"Amjad Ali is really working the gaps well here - it's one element of his innings so far."

Mooney comes round the wicket to the left-handed Amjad, who was a wicketkeeper in his younger days but now, at 35, plays as a specialist batsman. Another erstwhile wicketkeeper, Niall O'Brien - who recently lost the Irish gloves to Gary Wilson, though he still keeps for Leicestershire - just fails to cut off another on-drive from Amjad, and the wide open spaces of the Gabba allow them to run a three.

Alan Lewis
Ex-Ireland batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"When you look through this World Cup, the standard of pitches has been fantastic. You rarely see a bad pitch here at the Gabba."

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Max Sorensen takes the second over for Ireland - initially left out of the World Cup squad, he owes his place to the unfortunate injury suffered by Tim Murtagh in the build-up to the tournament. Amjad Ali was born in Lahore in Pakistan, and has the early touch of a wristy subcontinental batsman, flicking Sorensen for a four and a single through the leg side.

Peter Della Penna:, external Does Mooney look more like McEnroe or Borg with the plain green headband?

We've seen a couple of headbands already at the tournament - notably Afghanistan's Hamid Hassan (below). But who gets your vote as the "best headband in sport"?

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