So, that also brings a wrap to our coverage of the 2nd T20I between Ireland and Pakistan. For now, this is me Hiren Kumar singing off on behalf of my co-commentators Saptak Sanyal,Pritam Dey and scorer/analyst Bishal Mandel.
Mohammad Rizwan (Player of the Match)- "If you look at the whole match, they have played really well. I always enjoy batting with Fakhar. Ireland bowlers know the conditions well and they gave us a lot of difficulties early on.
If you lose, you will always be on pressure. We have one of the best attacks with Shaheen-Amir-Naseem but they know the condition well. I don't look at my numbers. If you look at average, you will be a average player. I would like to look at the conditions. I have a lot of respect for Virat Kohli(on becoming the second cricketer to have 50+ batting average in T-20I.)"
Player of the Match- Mohammad Rizwan
Babar Azam(Pakistan Captain):"Yeah, it is a big relief to win this one. Credit to the batters. After the first innings, we decided to chase it down by the 18th or 19th over. We lost two early wickets but good comeback from Zaman and Rizwan.
I think we were not able to finish the bowling well. We should have restricted them to 170-180 in my opinion. Both Zaman and Rizwan are experienced and they played according to situations.
Tuesday is a massive game. They are good side and have some experienced players. We are excited to play here and looking forward to the next game."
Paul Stirling (Ireland Captain) :"Yeah we batted really today. The other day 180 wasn’t enough so it was
hard to tell what was a par score here but at the half way stage we thought of having
a good chance at defending it.
Our bowlers bowled really well with the new
ball, they batted really well, you can give chances away to these top quality
batters and we got punished for that. In the 1st game we deserved to
win and today they deserved it. I am pretty happy with the energy of the boys
in the camp and we are ready to give it a go on Tuesday.”
Welcome to the post match presentation.
Highest number of victories as captain in T20I-
1) 45- Babar Azam(Pakistan) 2) 44- Brian Masaba(Uganda) 3) 42- Eoin Morgan(England) 4) 41- Rohit Sharma(India) 5) 41- MS Dhoni(India)