{"id":166385,"date":"2025-11-29T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/166385\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T18:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:16:07","slug":"bangladesh-level-up-t20-series-with-ireland-to-set-up-decider-on-tuesday-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/166385\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh level up T20 series with Ireland to set up decider on Tuesday \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland 170-6 (20 ovs) (L Tucker 41, T Tector 38, P Stirling 29; M Hasan 3-25), lost to Bangladesh 174-6 (19.4 ovs) (L Das 57, P Hossain Emon 43; G Delany 2-28, M Adair 2-36) by 4 wkts. Series level at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bangladesh claimed a four-wicket win over Ireland in Chattogram to level their three-match T20 series at 1-1 and set-up a winner-takes-all showdown on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland, who won Thursday\u2019s series opener by 39 runs, made 170 for six after deciding to bat first, with Lorcan Tucker making 41 off 32 balls, Tim Tector contributing 38 off 25 and Paul Stirling 29 off 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tector was one of two Irish batters stumped by Bangladesh captain Litton Das, who underpinned his side\u2019s chase with 57 off 37 balls after opener Parvez Hossain Emon had made 43 off 28 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Das fell with 33 still needed to win and Bangladesh lurched from 138 for two to 157 for six but Mohammad Saifuddin struck 17 not out as the hosts got over the line with two balls to spare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland 170-6 (20 ovs) (L Tucker 41, T Tector 38, P Stirling 29; M Hasan 3-25), lost to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8755,8756,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-166385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}