All-round India seal T20I series

You may call it a drubbing, a thrashing, a pasting but none of these words can describe India's dominance over Ireland in ongoing T20I series. It was another day but the result remains same for both side as India outplayed Ireland in 2nd T20I at Dublin to handed them a 143-run defeat to seal the series 2-0.

It was nothing but a classic example of Indian batting. Ireland put India to bat first after winning the toss for the second time in the series. India took full advantage of this and set a massive total of 213 on the board after 20 overs.



KL Rahul who missed out the last match got an opportunity to open the innings. He grabbed this and played a blitzing inning of 70 off 36 balls. Suresh Raina also makes most of it and scored his fifth T20I fifty. He got dismiss in the 18th over of the inning after scoring 69 off 45 balls.

Hardik Pandya played a sizzling cameo of 32 off 9 balls in the end and took India to 213 for 4 after 20 overs. Manish Pandey also scored unbeaten 21 off 20 balls.

Kevin O Brien was the most successful bowler for Ireland. He conceded 40 runs in 4 overs and picked 3 wickets. Peter Chase who dismissed Indian skipper Virat Kohli, gave away 42 runs in 4 overs after conceded only 10 runs in first 2 overs.



In reply of 214, Ireland had no answer of Indian bowling. And resulted in, the bowled out on just 70 in 12.3 overs. Skipper Gary Wilson was the top scorer with 15 off 18 balls.

Umesh Yadav and debutant Siddarth Kaul were impressive with the new ball. Yadav bowled 2 overs and picked 2 wickets for 19 while Kaul picked a wicket for just 4 runs in 2 overs. Spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal picked 3 wickets each and played a big role in bowling out Ireland on the modest total.

KL Rahul awarded Man Of The Match while Chahal named Man Of The Series for picking 6 wickets in 2 matches.

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