team india They managed to claim a four-run win over Ireland in the second and final T20I of the series at The Village in Dublin on Tuesday. Deepak Hooda was the star of the match for the visitors as he scored his maiden T20I century. Sanju Samson also played a stellar knock to help India post 227/7 in 20 overs. Chasing a colossal total, Ireland fell short by just four runs after brilliant batting performances from Andrew Balbirnie, Paul Stirling and George Dockrell. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, Harshal Patel and Ravi Bishnoi took a wicket each for India, while Axar Patel and Hardik Pandya were economical.
what thriller we have seen #teamindia win second #IREvIND by 4 runs and sealed the 2-match series
Achievement: https://t.co/6Ix0a6evrR pic.twitter.com/6GaXOAaieQ— BCCI (@BCCI) June 28, 2022
Earlier, the pair of Hooda (104 off 57) and Samson (77 off 42) put on 176 runs for the second wicket, the most by any Indian pair to demoralize the hosts in T20Is so far. Is.
After winning the toss and electing to bat, India lost the wicket of Ishan Kishan in the third over of the innings, with the batsman scoring just 3 runs off 5 balls. The wicket didn’t impress Hooda and Samson much as they didn’t seem to be in any trouble.
Hooda looked more aggressive while Samson, who was playing his first match of the series, took his time to settle down as India reached 54/1 after 6 overs. Hooda continued his aggressive approach even after the powerplay and completed his fifty in 27 balls. Samson, on the other hand, also changed gears as India went past the 100-run mark within 11 overs.
Very soon, Samson also completed his fifty in 31 balls as India raced towards a big total. The carnage of Hooda and Samson came soon after as they bundled out the Irish bowlers for 20 and 19 in the 14th and 15th overs respectively.
It was Mark Adair who broke this big partnership by clean bowling Samson on the second ball of the 17th over.
Suryakumar Yadav was the new batsman and he came straight into action, hitting the bowler for a six and a boundary as India went past 200 in the same over.
Hooda, on the other hand, looked in fine form throughout the innings and scored his maiden T20I century in just 55 balls. He became the fourth Indian batsman after Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul to score a century in T20Is.
Suryakumar (15), looking for a big hit, dismissed Joshua Little. Centurion Hooda was also dismissed by Little in the same over when he was trying to nudge a delivery on the leg-stump. After this, Craig Young took two wickets in successive deliveries in the 19th over as Dinesh Karthik and Axar Patel could not open their account.
Mark Adair, who came in to bowl the last over, did a good job as he took the wicket of Harshal Patel and conceded just 10 runs in it. Hardik Pandya not out (15 off 9) returned unbeaten as India posted a mammoth 227/7 after 20 overs.
Mark Adair took three wickets for Ireland while Craig Young and Josh Little took two wickets each.