T20 World Cup 2022: IRE overtake Aus-Eng in points table
T20 World Cup 2022: IRE overtake Aus-Eng in points table
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Melbourne: The ongoing T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia is seeing a lot of consequences of rain. This time due to rain, many big reversals have also been seen. Now due to rain, the match between Afghanistan and Ireland has been cancelled. The match was to be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), but due to rain, the toss could not be done and the match was cancelled. Due to this, one point each has been divided equally between the two teams. 

Due to getting one point, Ireland has made a big jump in the points table. This Irish team has now reached second place. This team now has three points. In this way, Ireland has left behind Sri Lanka along with England and Australia in the points table. However, the New Zealand team is still at the top of Group 1 with three points. Group 1 consists of six teams England, Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Ireland and Afghanistan. This was Ireland's third match against Afghanistan. Earlier, Ireland defeated a legendary team like England in their second match. Which was won by Ireland according to the Duckworth-Lewis rule by the grace of rain. 

Actually, this match between Ireland and England was played in Melbourne. Then Ireland batted first and scored 157 runs. But, it started raining during England's innings. When the match was stopped due to rain, England was five runs behind the score that should have been according to the Duckworth-Lewis rule. In this way, Ireland won that match, while the Irish team lost to Sri Lanka in the first match. 

The rain was so strong that there was no estimate of the match starting again, in such a situation, the umpires closed the match and declared the result, which proved to be historic for Ireland. At the same time, this was also the third match of the Afghanistan team. The Afghan team's second match against New Zealand was cancelled due to rain. While they lost their first match against England.

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