{"id":762386,"date":"2026-06-26T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762386\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:32:12","slug":"ireland-vs-india-irish-stun-world-champions-in-t20-opener-at-stormont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762386\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland vs India: Irish stun world champions in T20 opener at Stormont"},"content":{"rendered":"

First T20 international, Stormont<\/p>\n

Ireland 182-9 (20 overs): Tucker 50 (36), Delany 49 (32); Rana 3-24<\/p>\n

India: 148 all out (18.5 overs): Sharma 50 (20); Hollard 3-28, Humphreys 3-38<\/p>\n

Ireland win by 34 runs<\/p>\n

Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n

Ireland caused a massive shock as they claimed a first senior international win over world champions India in Friday’s opening T20 international in Belfast.<\/p>\n

With key bowlers missing through injury, debutants Jai Moondra and Matthew Hollard starred as the hosts claimed a 34-run victory to snap their winless streak against India in the shorter format at the ninth time of asking and 12th in all formats. <\/p>\n

More than 4,000 spectators flocked to Stormont hoping to see India hand a record-breaking debut to batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. <\/p>\n

However, after India decided to hold the 15-year-old in reserve and opted to bowl first, new Ireland captain Lorcan Tucker led Ireland’s batting charge, with his half-century helping the hosts post 182-9. <\/p>\n

The tourists made a quick start in response as Abhishek Sharma hit 50 off 20 balls, but Ireland refused to panic with Hollard (3-28) and India-born Moondra (2-26) playing a key role in a historic win at sun-splashed Stormont as India were dismissed for 148 with seven balls left.<\/p>\n

“I never expected this, to have a debut against India it’s a dream come true and I couldn’t ask for anything better,” Hollard told TNT Sports. <\/p>\n

“My family have come out from Johannesburg to support me.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been wanting to come over to Ireland since 2019 but then Covid happened and there were a lot of setbacks. My brother came first and said I had to come so I did and Cricket Ireland have been unbelievable with me.”<\/p>\n

The sides face each other again at Stormont on Sunday (13:30 BST). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First T20 international, Stormont Ireland 182-9 (20 overs): Tucker 50 (36), Delany 49 (32); Rana 3-24 India: 148…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-762386","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\/762386","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=762386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}