Canada's first World Cup victory over Ireland

In the T20 World Cup two days in a row, two associate countries defeated the full member countries of the ICC. The United States defeated Pakistan in the Super Over on Thursday night. Today, Friday (June 07, 2024) night, Canada defeated Ireland. Which is their first win in the World Cup.

At the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York, Canada batted first and scored 137 runs for 7 wickets. In response, Ireland could not score more than 125 runs for 7 wickets. Maple Leafs opened their record of victory in the World Cup with a great victory of 12 runs.

Paul Stirling and Andy Balbirni scored 26 runs in the opening pair chasing runs. Sterling returned with 9 runs in this run. Then the Irish faced a batting disaster. Lost five wickets to go from 26 to 59 runs. Balbirani (17) was out for 32 runs, Harry Tector (7) for 41 runs, Lorcan Tucker (10) for 50 runs, Kurts Kampfer (4) for 53 runs and Gareth Delaney (3) for 59 runs.

From there, George Dockrell and Mark Adair battled it out. Reduce the gap by playing an innings of 62 runs. Ireland needed 17 runs to win in the last over. But they could not take more than 4 runs after losing the wicket of Adair.

The Irish lost 7 wickets in 20 overs and scored 125 runs. Dockrell remained unbeaten on 30 off 23 balls with 2 fours and 1 six. Adair was dismissed for 34 off 24 balls with 3 fours and 1 six.

Canada's Jeremy Gordon took 2 wickets with 16 runs in 4 overs. Dillon Heilinger took 2 wickets for 18 runs in 4 overs. Junaid Siddiqui and Saad Bin Zafar took 1 wicket each.

Before that, Canada lost the toss and went down to bat and did not get a big collection. In the power play they lost 2 wickets and scored 37 runs. And at the end of 10 overs, he lost 4 wickets and scored 63 runs. From there, Canada can go up to 137 runs with the bat of Nicholas Kirton and Shreyas Mover.

Kirton was dismissed for 49 off 35 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes. And Mova was run out with 37 runs in 3 fours. They added 75 runs in the fifth wicket partnership. Canada's run from 53 for 4 wickets to 128 for 5 wickets. In the end they could reach 137 runs by losing 7 wickets.

Ireland's Craig Young and Barry McCarthy took 2 wickets each with the ball. Mark Adair and Gareth Delaney took 1 wicket each.

Canada's Kirton was the man of the match.