Heinrich Malan’s side struggled in the morning session in a cloudy Belfast and added just 66 more runs to their total.<\/p>\n
Tom Mayes and Lorcan Tucker were dismissed early and while Stephen Doheny did bring up his first half-century in Test cricket as Ireland surpassed 100, he exited for 57 before an enforced early lunch break due to a rain shower.<\/p>\n
Campher then retired hurt as Ireland’s woes continued into the afternoon session with Andy McBrine (13) and Lorcan Tucker (50) departing, the latter after notching a fifth Test 50 as the impressive Nathan Smith collected his eighth wicket of the match.<\/p>\n
Mark Adair and Liam McCarthy helped Ireland to better the 179 they got in their first innings, but Test debutant McCarthy slipped a he sprinted to the other and was run out for 11 as New Zealand edged closer to victory.<\/p>\n
Confirmation of their win came soon after as Tickner (5-76) dismissed Wilson to bring the game to a close before tea.<\/p>\n
Despite the defeat, Balbirnie was impressed by the performances of Test debutants Mayes, McCarthy and Wilson, singling out the 19-year-old for praise.<\/p>\n
“It was great to get a few guys debuts and Test experience, but ultimately we weren’t at the levels they were at,” he added.<\/p>\n
“The guys who got their debuts looked pretty good at that level. Reuben Wilson, his first Ireland cap at 19, I think he has a huge future in the game. <\/p>\n
“Certainly guys getting runs [was a positive too]; Andrew McBrine, Lorcan Tucker, Stephen Doheny, in only his second Test. <\/p>\n
“Plenty of positives, but for us to be successful at this level we need to play as much first-class cricket as we can. Everyone is desperate to get better.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heinrich Malan’s side struggled in the morning session in a cloudy Belfast and added just 66 more runs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-702595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}