Ireland has started their second one-day match against Afghan in an unexpected way. Afghan has already lost the first four-wicket just for 18 runs in 10 overs. Murtagh has done a superb spell for Ireland, bowled five overs and gave just 9 runs and took three wickets and all of them are bowled. Ireland captain is doing a good thing by asking Murtagh to continue his bowling for sixth over. Since he is bowling well so captain needs to ask him to bowl another two overs at least. The current Afghan-run rate is less than 2 runs per over and they need score at least 200+ runs then they can try for winning the match.
Afghanistan openers (Mohammad Shahzad & Hazratullah Zazai) totally collapsed today; the one-down batsman didn't do any good either. The middle-order did perform fine, but they really need to improve their running; two major middle-order batsmen got run-out today.
Oh well, this win will definitely give a boost up to Irish team for tomorrow's series-deciding match.
I think this win for Ireland makes the series more interesting, Ireland ain't a bad cricket team and will be more competitive with every series they play. I really like seeing these lower ranked teams win as it makes it more interesting to watch instead of the lower ranked teams getting smashed all the time. Well they will need to improve a lot when facing the higher ranked teams such as India, England, Australia etc....
