{"id":662525,"date":"2026-06-28T09:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662525\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:32:32","slug":"ireland-rattle-through-india-to-claim-first-ever-win-over-world-t20-champions-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662525\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland rattle through India to claim first ever win over world T20 champions | Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland defeated India for the first time in men\u2019s international cricket with an unexpected 34-run victory over the world T20 champions at Stormont.<\/p>\n

Ireland recovered from 51 for four to post 182 for nine, before an attack inspired by debutants Matt Hollard and Jai Moondra left India all out for 148 with seven balls remaining. This was the tourists\u2019 first defeat since winning a second successive T20 World Cup in March.<\/p>\n

India had left out 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi<\/a>, whose senior debut for India had been hugely anticipated since he tore apart some of the world\u2019s best bowlers to top the Indian Premier League batting charts. Instead, India retained seven of the XI which won in March, only to be upstaged by the hosts.<\/p>\n

The India-born left-arm quick Moondra bowled opener Sanju Samson with his first delivery and returned to catch Shivam Dube, India\u2019s last recognised batter, off his own bowling. Moondra took two for 25 and would have had a third wicket off his last delivery but Harshit Rana was dropped at long-on.<\/p>\n

Debutant Hollard was named player of the match for his three wickets for 28. He took the wickets of Ishan Kishan, skipper Shreyas \u200cIyer and all-rounder Washington Sundar in his four overs, but ended the match with his hand strapped after dropping a tough caught-and-bowled chance off Axar Patel.<\/p>\n

Matt Hollard (third left) celebrates with his teammates after bowling out India\u2019s Ishan Kishan. Photograph: Liam McBurney\/PA<\/p>\n

Abhishek Sharma had given India a tremendous start to their reply, smashing seven fours and \u2060two sixes in a 19-ball half-century, before being dismissed by Irish fast bowler Liam McCarthy in the eighth over.<\/p>\n

The Ireland captain, Lorcan Tucker, also scored exactly 50 runs, while Gareth Delany contributed \u200bwith a well-made 49 as they set \u200bup a steep \u200ctotal for India \u200bto chase.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think we scraped \u200bthrough that game,\u201d Tucker said at the post-match presentation ceremony. \u201cWe had some tough periods in it but we stayed in it. And we were diligent, and we worked hard. And we \u2060were lucky to get the reward in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland defeated India for the first time in men\u2019s international cricket with an unexpected 34-run victory over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662525","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\/662525","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=662525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}