After top scoring with a classy 61 not out in a useful total of 196-3, Tector thought he had removed England dangerman Phil Salt, caught at deep mid-wicket for 51, only to discover he had over-stepped and been called for a no-ball.<\/p>\n
Man-of-the-match Salt, who struck 10 fours and four sixes, finally fell for 89 from 46 balls, with the visitors only 16 short of victory and the finish line firmly in sight.<\/p>\n
If Tector\u2019s front foot had stayed behind the line would the Boys in Green have won? Probably not, but it\u2019s equally unlikely England would have recorded their first T20 victory over Ireland in three attempts as comfortably, with 14 balls to spare.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe couldn\u2019t have asked for much more with the bat,\u201d skipper Paul Stirling said. \u201cIt was a bit tricky at the top of the innings, and to come out and score 196, we were pretty happy with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you know you\u2019ve got to do everything right when they bat \u2014 and have a bit of luck \u2014 and we didn\u2019t get that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe kept trying to take wickets, there\u2019s no point going ultra defensive and losing with less balls to spare. We took six wickets, and we\u2019ll review what happened and see if we can improve on it in the next two games.\u201d<\/p>\n
After being put into bat following the overnight rain, Stirling and fellow opener Ross Adair found it hard to time the ball in the early overs but did well to find 49 runs from the powerplay, and had added 57 before falling in successive overs.<\/p>\n
Lorcan Tucker joined Tector and the Pembroke team-mates compiled an Ireland record partnership of 123 for the third-wicket with the former going to his half-century in the final over, with his fourth maximum, before gloving the penultimate ball to the keeper.<\/p>\n
Tector\u2019s 61 came from 36 balls, including six fours and two sixes, and he has joined Stirling, Andy Balbirnie and Kevin O\u2019Brien in an elite club of Ireland batters who have scored more that 1,500 runs in T20 internationals.<\/p>\n
George Dockrell could do no more than lift his only delivery for six \u2014 Ireland cleared the ropes 12 times, to England\u2019s 10 \u2014 but Salt and Jos Buttler\u2019s opening blast of 74 from 28 balls in reply put the visitors in cruise control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After top scoring with a classy 61 not out in a useful total of 196-3, Tector thought he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8755,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-27979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cricket","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27979","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=27979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}