2007 Cricket World Cup: England vs Ireland
Friday, March 30, 2007
England beat Ireland by 48 runs in the Super 8 phase of the World Cup at the Providence Stadium, Georgetown, Guyana.
This is both teams first game in this phase, and both begin the stage without any points, having both lost to their fellow group qualifiers - New Zealand and West Indies, respectively.
Toss: England won, and elected to bat first.
 England innings
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| Ed Joyce | b Rankin | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| Michael Vaughan | c N O'Brien b B Rankin | 6 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 46.15 | |
| Ian Bell | c NJ O'Brien b KJ O'Brien | 31 | 74 | 2 | 0 | 41.89 | |
| Kevin Pietersen | c Porterfield b McCallan | 48 | 47 | 5 | 0 | 102.12 | |
| Paul Collingwood | run out (White/Johnston) | 90 | 82 | 8 | 3 | 109.75 | |
| Andrew Flintoff | b Johnston | 43 | 62 | 4 | 0 | 69.35 | |
| Paul Nixon | c Morgan b Botha | 19 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 126.66 | |
| Ravinder Bopara | not out | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| Sajid Mahmood | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extras | (lb 2; w 13; nb 3) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (7 Wickets; 50 overs) | 266 | 22 | 4 | |||
Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Joyce, 1.1 ov), 2-23 (Vaughan, 5.2 ov), 3-89 (Bell, 21.2 ov), 4-113 (Pietersen, 26.3 ov), 5-194 (Flintoff, 43.3 ov), 6-245 (Nixon, 48.2 ov), 7-258 (Collingwood, 49.3 ov)
| File:Flag of Ireland cricket team.svg Ireland bowling | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | |
| Dave Langford-Smith | 7 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 5.42 | |
| Boyd Rankin | 7 | 1 | 28 | 2 | 4.00 | |
| Trent Johnston | 10 | 0 | 70 | 1 | 7.00 | |
| Andre Botha | 10 | 1 | 56 | 1 | 5.60 | |
| Kevin O'Brien | 4 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 6.50 | |
| Kyle McCallan | 10 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 3.80 | |
| Andrew White | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4.00 | |
| File:Flag of Ireland cricket team.svg Ireland innings (Target: 267 runs from 50 overs) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| William Porterfield | c Bell b Flintoff | 31 | 68 | 1 | 0 | 45.58 | |
| Jeremy Bray | c Bopara b Anderson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Eoin Morgan | run out (Mahmood) | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| Niall O'Brien | st Nixon b Vaughan | 63 | 88 | 4 | 0 | 71.59 | |
| Andre Botha | c Flintoff b Panesar | 18 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 46.15 | |
| Kevin O'Brien | lbw b Panesar | 12 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 63.15 | |
| Trent Johnston | b Flintoff | 27 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 128.57 | |
| Andrew White | c Nixon b Collingwood | 38 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 108.57 | |
| Kyle McCallan | b Flintoff | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 83.33 | |
| Dave Langford-Smith | lbw b Flintoff | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Boyd Rankin | not out | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 3; w 9; nb 5) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out; 48.1 overs) | 218 | |||||
Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Bray, 0.5 ov), 2-11 (Morgan, 3.4 ov), 3-72 (Porterfield, 18.5 ov), 4-116 (Botha, 29.5 ov), 5-139 (KJ O'Brien, 35.6 ov), 6-139 (NJ O'Brien, 36.2 ov), 7-197 (Johnston, 44.5 ov), 8-209 (White, 45.5 ov), 9-210 (Langford-Smith, 46.1 ov), 10-218 (McCallan, 48.1 ov)
| England bowling
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | |
| James Anderson | 7 | 1 | 35 | 1 | 5.00 | |
| Sajid Mahmood | 8 | 2 | 34 | 0 | 4.25 | |
| Andrew Flintoff | 8.1 | 1 | 43 | 4 | 5.26 | |
| Paul Collingwood | 6 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 6.33 | |
| Monty Panesar | 10 | 1 | 31 | 2 | 3.10 | |
| Michael Vaughan | 9 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 3.77 | |
England: E C Joyce, M P Vaughan (capt), I R Bell, K P Pietersen, A Flintoff, P D Collingwood, R S Bopara, P A Nixon (wkt), S I Mahmood, J M Anderson, M S Panesar
Ireland: W T S Porterfield, J P Bray, E J G Morgan, N J O'Brien (wkt), A C Botha, K J O'Brien, D T Johnston (capt), W K McCallan, A R White, D Langford-Smith, W B Rankin
Player of the match: P D Collingwood (England)
Umpires: B R Doctrove (West Indies) and S J A Taufel (Australia)
TV umpire: D J Harper (Australia)
Match referee: R S Madugalle (Sri Lanka)
Reserve umpire: S A Bucknor (West Indies)
Sources
[edit]- "28th Match, Super Eights: England v Ireland at Providence, Mar 30, 2007" — Cricinfo, March 30, 2007
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