{"id":730821,"date":"2026-08-07T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730821\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:38:09","slug":"ireland-v-afghanistan-rashid-khan-takes-six-wickets-in-big-win-for-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730821\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v Afghanistan: Rashid Khan takes six wickets in big win for tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Second ODI, Bready<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Afghanistan 299-8 (47 overs): Zadran 84 (97); Adair 2-40<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland 207 all out (33.4 overs): Carmichael 62 (66); Rashid 6-34<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Afghanistan win by 92 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-237185\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rashid Khan took six wickets as Afghanistan beat Ireland by 92 runs in Gary Wilson&#8217;s first one-day international as head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Wednesday&#8217;s opener if the five-game series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c87nl84g754o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was washed out<\/a> without a ball bowled, a wet outfield at Bready led to a 90-minute delay and a reduction of three overs per side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Afghanistan quickly took advantage of the short boundaries at the County Tyrone ground, with a succession of batters looking set even if it was only Ibrahim Zadran who went on to pass fifty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His 84 helped Afghanistan post 299-8 ,but Ireland could only muster 207 as Wilson&#8217;s reign started with defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cade Carmichael was Ireland&#8217;s top scorer with 62, but Rashid stole the show with six wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tourists have won seven ODIs against Ireland in succession, a run that stretches back to 2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second ODI, Bready Afghanistan 299-8 (47 overs): Zadran 84 (97); Adair 2-40 Ireland 207 all out (33.4 overs):&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-730821","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\/730821","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=730821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}