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Pakistan vs Ireland Maiden Test Match (Pak won by an innings and 5 wickets)

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No doubt the only test match was full of drama and trill despite of follow-on enforced on Ireland in 2nd innings Irish batsmen show some serious nerves and due to exceptional batting of Kevin O'Brien who scored 118 runs and becoming the only batsman of Ireland to score century in the test matches. Irish team put up a total of 339 in the second innings and gave target of 160 runs to Pakistan for win. players innings to mention here were by Ed Joyce who scored 43, Porterfield 32 Runs, Kevin O'Brien 118 & Thompson 56 Runs. Muhammad Abbas of Pakistan took 5 wickets and Muhammad Amir took 3 wickets. In the chase of 160 Runs to Win Pakistani top Order again failed and lost some early wickets and lost 3 wickets for only 14 runs at that point it seemed like match is slipping away from Pakistan's hand and Ireland is going to make history by winning this only test match but the debutant Imam ul Haq displayed some outstanding batting skills and proved his selection to be right p
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Pakistan vs Ireland Maiden Test Match Day 3 Stumps - Results

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Pakistan's Team Top order didn't performed well in the first innings of the test match. Debutante Imam ul Haq didnt performed to the expectations. Asad Safique perhaps showed some class and temperament and scored an innings of 62 runs of 169 balls and Haris Sohail scored 31 runs. All rounder and 2nd debutante Fahim Ashraf remained the top scorer of the innings and made 83 runs of 170 balls. The leg spinner Shahdab Khan scored fifty with bat and due to these innings Pakistan managed to score 310 runs and declared innings. Start of Ireland innings was nor promising as 4 of the top order players got out on just 7 runs just Kevin O'Brien and tail ender Wilson showed some resistance against the Pakistani bowlers and scored 40 and 33 Runs respectively. Muhammad Abbas took 4 Wickets , Shahdab Khan took 3 and Muhammad Amir took 2 wickets and due to Pakistan's exceptional bowling Ireland got all out on just 130 runs in first innings and Pakistan Captain Sarfarz Ahmed forced
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Historic Day in Test Cricket of the World Pakistan vs Ireland Maiden Test Match

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Pakistan Vs Ireland Maiden Test Match at Dublin, Ireland Finally the wait is over and Ireland has been awarded with the Test match playing nation status. Ireland did many upsets in ODIs and they have toppled the giants 5 times in Cricket History. In 2007 they defeated Pakistan and Knocked them out of the World Cup 2007, then in the same Tournament of World Cup 2007 in super eight stages they beaten Bangladesh with a huge margin of 74 Runs. 4 years later again in World Cup 2011 Kevin O'Brien Fastest century in World Cup history defeated England the cricket giant and the inventor of the game. Then again in 2015 World Cup they beaten West indies by 4 wickets. Ireland track record in the world cups is outstanding lets see what they do in the next world cup in 2019? Both nations Ireland and Pakistan are excited about the maiden test match as they are going to be named in the history of Test cricket. It has to be Pakistan, after almost 11 years of the defeat of Pakistan by the hand of
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ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 - Team Standings after Group Matches, POOL B

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POINTS TABLE - POOL b Teams Matches Won Lost Tied N/R Points Run Rate India 6 6 0 0 0 12 +1.827 South Africa 6 4 2 0 0 8 +1.707 Pakistan 6 4 2 0 0 8 -0.085 West Indies 6 3 3 0 0 6 -0.053 Ireland 6 3 3 0 0 6 -0.933 Zimbabwe 6 1 5 0 0 2 -0.527 U.A.E. 6 0 6 0 0 0 -2.032
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ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 - Team Standings after Group Matches

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Points Table - Pool A  Teams Matches Won Lost Tied N/R Points Run Rate New Zealand 6 6 0 0 0 12 +2.564 Australia 6 4 1 0 1 9 +2.257 Sri Lanka 6 4 2 0 0 8 +0.371 Bangladesh 6 3 2 0 1 7 +0.136 England 6 2 4 0 0 4 -0.753 Afghanistan 6 1 5 0 0 2 -1.853 Scotland 6 0 6 0 0 0 -2.218
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