Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"I'm afraid the wheels have fallen off the UAE wagon. They have fought so hard but they've run out of puff."

Now it's skipper Mohammad Tauqir leaving the field, and though vice-captain Khurram Khan should nominally be in charge, the UAE suddenly look a bit of a rabble. Four players around the bowler, no-one really sure what's going on.

Phil Gilman:, external Surely today's game is more proof that it would be wrong to cut future World Cups to an elite 10.

Staffan Vowles:, external 16 teams, 4 groups of four, 8 seeds. Top 2 to quarters, third place in group guarantees a place in next World Cup.

With the UAE bowling options limited, it's still Chandran/Karate with medium pace from the other end, and O'Brien takes full advantage, bashing back-to-back fours over cover and fine leg. A single means he keeps the strike - he has 24 from 13 balls, Wilson has 52 from 54, and Ireland need 72 from 48 balls. Who's your Emirati dirham on?

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Kevin O'Brien is not very popular with these UAE boys. He needs to calm down, count to 10 and let his bat do the talking. He's got way too involved in what is going on out there."

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So, while the UAE replace their 12th man with a 13th man (as opening bowler Guruge is already off the field injured), Naveed fires in a high full toss which is borderline waist-high - and then another which is even higher. That's a beamer, right up at chest high, it's called a no-ball and I'd have thought the bowler gets an automatic warning for that. It's all happening!

Neal:, external Going to offer up the late great Sweetness, Walter Payton. How cool does he look?

You've struck a chord with a 1980s Chicago Bears fan here. In case you've just joined us, we've been asking for you to name the best headbands in sport, after John Mooney opened the bowling for Ireland in a bright lime green headband.

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With 95 needed from 10 overs - I'll let you work out the required rate there - O'Brien punches a four past mid-on, then lashes another one the other side of the bowler. Ireland certainly aren't giving up this one. And we have another injury among the UAE fielders - now substitute fielder Saqlain Haider has gone down with cramp! Or has he gone in the fetlock?

Alan Lewis
Ex-Ireland batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"A very good fifty from Gary Wilson - a much-needed fifty for him personally."

Ireland 184-5 (40 overs) - target 279

Batsmen: Wilson 51*, K O'Brien 5*

Fall of wickets: 4-1 (Stirling 3), 72-2 (Joyce 37), 94-3 (Porterfield 37), 97-4 (N O'Brien 17), 171-5 (Balbirnie 30)

Bowling figures: Naveed 6-1-30-1, Guruge 7-0-21-1, Javed 6-0-30-0, Tauqir 9-0-38-2, Mustafa 8-0-33-0, Chandran 4-0-30-0

UAE 278-9: Shaiman 106, Stirling 2-27

Ireland won toss

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Wilson square-cuts for four with aplomb again, then brings up his eighth ODI fifty with a well-timed two. A lot rests on the Surrey man now.

Meanwhile there's a very, very optimistic lbw appeal against O'Brien - perhaps Karate wants revenge after O'Brien caught him earlier today - as the ball hits his leg way, way outside off stump.

Alan Lewis
Ex-Ireland batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"The stage is set."

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Enter Kevin O'Brien, the "Hero of Bangalore" - and he's off the mark straight away, pulling a four through mid-wicket. They need 104 from 66 balls.

Kevin Howells
BBC Test Match Special

"Balbirnie has at least given Ireland a chance. But the pressure is building. If Ireland are going to win this, they're going to need something special."

Pace bowler Mohammad Naveed returns to the attack - and he removes Balbirnie as the right-hander miscues him straight to a substitute fielder at mid-off. An easy catch, the Emirati are delighted.

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Elliott Hutchins:, external Associate members are fantastic. We should be having more of them in the World Cup, not less!

Wilson attempts more bloodthirsty cuts and pulls at Chandran, but plays and misses a couple of times. He looks pumped - as does Kevin O'Brien, who's padded up on the boundary as next man in. Wilson guides a two down to fine leg but it's signalled as one short as Wilson turned blind and didn't make his ground properly at the bowler's end. So just five from the over, when it should have been at least six.

Simon J James:, external Sure you have to give a mention to Wales' own Eric Young, a giant amongst headband wearers.

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Mustafa has, rather impressively, managed to send down eight overs without conceding a boundary. Just four singles from this one - Ireland need 117 from 78 balls.

Sakriya:, external The Associates have given more thrilling matches than the full members. Do they still think Associates are not competitive?