{"id":594551,"date":"2026-08-16T00:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594551\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T00:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:36:10","slug":"six-wicket-loss-sees-ireland-swept-by-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594551\/","title":{"rendered":"Six wicket loss sees Ireland swept by Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan rounded off their ODI series against Ireland with a six wickets victory to secure a 4-0 series win.<\/p>\n<p>A brilliant century from Rahmat Shah ensured a whitewash victory at Stormont following a tense finish.<\/p>\n<p>The visiting side were almost down to their final over chasing a target of 298 set for them by Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>But Rahmat, whose total of 143 was the difference, ensured victory for the visitors and a comprehensive series win.<\/p>\n<p>They had made sure of triumphing in the series by thrashing their hosts by 42 runs on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Afghanistan rounded off their ODI series against Ireland with a six wickets victory to secure a 4-0 series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-594551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594551","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=594551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}