India has beaten Ireland by 76 runs in the first T-20 match. With this victory, the Indian team has moved ahead of the series in 2 T-20 matches. The first match between the two T-20 matches between India and Ireland was played today in Dublin. In this match, Ireland won the toss and decided to bowl first and invited India to bat. This was India's 100th T20 match. Batting first in this match, the Indian team scored 208 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs.
Resuming at 209, the hosts did not start well, opener Paul Stirling was dismissed for just 1 in the second over. After this, the hosts' continued to break the wickets of the 9th wicket Most runs from openers James Taylor, who scored 60 runs in 35 balls, scored 5 fours and 4 sixes. Only three more batsmen from the host team could reach the tenth. In the bowling of Kuldeep Yadav from India, 4 Chahal got 3 and Jaspreet Bumrah got two wickets.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni played innings of 11 runs in five balls from Thompson. Rohit Sharma scored 97 runs in 61 balls and missed only his third T20 century with three runs. They became clean-bouncing on the Chase ball. Virat Kohli was caught out of the chase without opening the account. Virat was bowled by Thomson. Hardik Pandya remained unbeaten on 6 runs.
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