{"id":660893,"date":"2026-06-27T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660893\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:47:13","slug":"ireland-vs-india-dream-come-true-india-born-jai-moondra-helps-irish-claim-historic-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660893\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland vs India: ‘Dream come true’ – India-born Jai Moondra helps Irish claim historic win"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 4,000 fans poured into Stormont on Friday hoping to witness a slice of cricket history under the Belfast sun. <\/p>\n

In the end, that’s exactly what they got.<\/p>\n

But it wasn’t the “I was there” moment they had anticipated.<\/p>\n

The build-up to Ireland and India’s opening T20 was dominated by the possibility of the world champions handing a record-breaking debut to Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.<\/p>\n

At 15 years and 91 days old, he appeared set to become India’s youngest international after an impossible-to-miss ascension to the national squad following his stunning exploits in the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n

But the batting sensation’s surprise absence from the line-up ultimately proved a footnote on a day that belonged to Ireland as the hosts sealed a memorable 34-run win<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Despite missing six players through injury, Ireland produced a gutsy bowling display to claim a first senior international win over the tourists in all competitions – and add to a list of famous scalps that includes Pakistan and England at the 2007 and 2011 World Cups. <\/p>\n

One of the key actors in Ireland’s stirring display was India-born pacer Jai Moondra, who took 2-26 on an eye-catching international debut that included removing Sanju Samson with his first delivery.<\/p>\n

“It was a big stage for me, for my family and my team members, they were all rooting for me so all I can do is keep calm and keep doing what I have been doing because it’s kept me levelling up,” said Moondra, who added he will “cherish” his debut for the “rest of my life”. <\/p>\n

“I was feeling excitement at the same time. Testing myself against India and getting a first-ball wicket, I was trying not to be overwhelmed because we still had nine wickets to go.<\/p>\n

“It is a dream come true to get on to an international platform and play against India. It’s something special, a class feeling.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 4,000 fans poured into Stormont on Friday hoping to witness a slice of cricket history under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-660893","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\/660893","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=660893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}