ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, India vs Ireland, live: Arshdeep gets both Irish openers in one over

IRE 9/2 in 3 overs: WICKET! Balbirnie was worked over and worked over and finally Arshdeep gets one through to dismantle his stumps. Ireland in a spot of bother here.

IRE 7/1 in 2.1 overs: WICKET! A good length ball from Arshdeep that Stirling tries to pull and it’s caught by Pant as the sun starts to break through the clouds. India get their first breakthrough!

IRE 7/0 in 2 overs: Good bit of swing and pace from both Arshdeep and Mohammed Siraj. Rishabh Pant has only missed one wide ball from Siraj that ran away for a boundary.

Andrew Balbirnie and Ireland captain Paul Stirling will open the batting with Arshdeep Singh taking the new ball for India.

The weather is looking a tad cloudy and this may end up favouring the tall Irish fast bowlers. But Bumrah and Siraj may also be intrigued at what the drop-in pitch offers them.

Keep in mind, India played their warm-up match here against Bangladesh where they won by 60 runs after restricting Bangladesh to 122/9 in the chase of 183.

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