Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nNew Zealand completed a straightforward victory in their one-off Test against Ireland, wrapping up the win on day three by an innings and 79 runs.<\/p>\n
Ireland, bowled out for 179 in their first innings, started day three at Stormont on 65-2 after New Zealand had declared on 490-8 and enforced the follow-on.<\/p>\n
They had a mountain to climb, with 247 more runs needed to make the Black Caps bat again, but could only muster 232 from 63.2 overs in their second innings.<\/p>\n
The Test was brought to an end after Reuben Wilson’s dismissal as Curtis Campher had retired hurt with a hand injury before lunch.<\/p>\n
Blair Tickner starred for New Zealand on day three as he took his first five-wicket haul in Test cricket. <\/p>\n
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
New Zealand now look ahead to their three-Test series against England next month, while Ireland are also back in action in June as they face India in two Twenty20 internationals at Stormont.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One-off Test, Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont (day three of four) New Zealand 490-8 dec (119 overs): Blundell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-610660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}