Rashid Khan (photo - Getty Images)
Afghanistan will take on Ireland in the third and final T20I in Greater Noida tomorrow.
Afghanistan after two impressive performance in Greater Noida have sealed the series and will be eyeing to whitewash Ireland. In this T20I series Afghanistan’s batting and their bowling specially spin have been good. Top order batsmen got runs but they need to convert them into big knocks and in bowling Rashid Khan has been excellent but Mujeeb ur Rahman leaking runs upfront and he needs to work on that while Mohammed Nabi will hope for some wickets tomorrow. On the other hand, Ireland too have played good cricket in some patches but they need to lift their game to finish on winning side. Their batsmen are struggling to pick spinners and that’s a major worry for them and in the bowling spinners have to do better.
Match Details :
Match : AFG vs IRE, Afghanistan vs Ireland, Afghanistan vs Ireland T20I Series 2020
Date : 10 March 2020
Time : 2.00 PM IST
Venue : Greater Noida Sports Complex, Greater Noida
Head to Head :
T20I Matches – 17
Afghanistan won – 14
Ireland won – 3
Afghanistan leading 2-0 in the series after winning first two matches
Afghanistan beat Ireland both the T20Is and sealed the series. In these high scoring games both sides’ batsmen did well but Afghanistan’s spin bowling was too good and that made the difference between win and loss and ahead of this final match we’ll analyse both sides’ strengths and weaknesses and will also make cricket match prediction.
Strengths : Afghanistan’s strengths are their inform top order of Zazai, Gurbaz, Afghan, Najibullah and spin bowling of Rashid Khan and Mujeeb ur Rahamn who pick wickets at crucial stages. For Ireland their strengths are their openers Kevin O’Brien and Paul Stirling who do provide good start and middle order batsmen Harry Tector and Gareth Delany.
Weaknesses : Afghanistan’s weaknesses are their pacers who haven’t been good and leaks a lot of runs upfront and they need to work in this area while Ireland’s bowlers too haven’t been good either and they too need to improve their line lengths and have to create pressure by not leaking runs in power play.
Afghanistan as usual continued their dominance over Ireland side and in these spin friendly conditions they’re a tough side to beat especially for overseas sides who do struggle against spinners. Afghanistan have series in their bag and in this dead rubbers they’ll express themselves more by playing freely and once again their spinners will be key while Ireland will look to finish the tour with a win and for that they need to play spinners carefully and have to attack pacers more. On the basis of this series’ performance our today match prediction is that Afghanistan should complete the whitewash of Ireland.
Following are the odds for this T20I match on two most famous betting sites –
Bet365 : Afghanistan : 1.28, Ireland : 3.75
Betway : Afghanistan : 1.30, Ireland : 3.25
On the basis of first two matches’ performances following players are good picks for fantasy cricket teams –
Afghanistan :
Rashid Khan – 4 wickets at 12.0 in 2 innings
Mujeeb ur Rahman – 4 wickets at 21.75 in 2 innings
Rahmanullah Gurbaz – 63 runs in 2 innings
Najibullah Zadran – 58 runs in 2 innings
Ireland :
Andy Balbirnie – 75 runs in 2 innings
Paul Stirling – 72 runs in 2 innings
Harry Tector – 66 runs in 2 innings
Afghanistan have dominated Ireland in T20I cricket for a long time and they’re doing the same this time too and have already sealed the series. Their batting and bowling have been good so far. Though Ireland too have been competitive so far and for dream11 prediction teams players like Rashid Khan, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Najibullah Zadran, Paul Stiriling, Simi Singh, Gareth Delany and Mohammed Nabi are must picks and the likes of Gurbaz, Naib and Craig Young too can be picked.