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Match Date : April 15, 2007
Venue : Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados
Toss : Ireland won the toss and elected to bat first
Umpires : Steve Bucknor (WI) and Billy Bowden (NZ)
Match Result : Ireland won by 74 runs
Man of the Match : William Porterfield
Match Report : Ireland beat Bangladesh by a big margin
Ireland (50 Overs Maximum)
William Porterfield c Rafique b Mashrafe Mortaza 85 (136) 3 ‘4s’
Jeremy Bray run out (Saqibul Hasan/Rahim) 31 (70) 1 ‘4s’
Eoin Morgan run out (Rahim/Shahadat Hossain) 5 (9) 1 ‘4s’
Niall O’Brien (Wk) c Tamim Iqbal b Saqibul Hasan 10 (14)
Kevin O’Brien run out (sub [Farhad Reza]/Rahim) 48 (44) 2 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Trent Johnston (C) c Shahriar Nafees b Mashrafe Mortaza 30 (23) 2 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Andrew White run out (sub [Farhad Reza]/Rahim) 4 (4)
D Langford-Smith not out 6 (4) 1 ‘4s’
Andre Botha not out 1 (1)
Kyle McCallan
Boyd Rankin
Extras : 23 (Wides : 6 No Balls: 5 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 11)
Total : 243/7 (Overs : 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-92 (Bray, 25.3 ovs), 2-101 (Morgan, 27.5 ovs), 3-128 (Niall O’Brien, 33.2 ovs), 4-176 (Porterfield, 41.3 ovs), 5-215 (Kevin O’Brien, 47.1 ovs), 6-233 (White, 48.5 ovs), 7-237 (Johnston, 49.3 ovs)
Bangladesh Bowling
Mashrafe Mortaza 10-1-38-2 (3nb)
Shahadat Hossain 9-1-51-0 (1wd 2nb)
Abdur Razzak 9-0-48-0 (2wd)
Mohammad Rafique 10-0-42-0 (2wd)
Saqibul Hasan 10-0-44-1
Aftab Ahmed 2-0-8-0 (1wd)
Bangladesh (Target : 244 from 50 Overs)
Tamim Iqbal b Johnston 29 (59) 4 ‘4s’
Shahriar Nafees c Niall O’Brien b Rankin 7 (18) 1 ‘4s’
Aftab Ahmed c Niall O’Brien b Botha 12 (9) 1 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Saqibul Hasan run out (Botha) 3 (8)
Mohammad Ashraful c Langford-Smith b Rankin 35 (36) 5 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Habibul Bashar (C) b Johnston 32 (57) 2 ‘4s’
Mushfiqur Rahim (WK) b McCallan 16 (26) 2 ‘4s’
Mashrafe Mortaza c&b Langford-Smith 0 (3)
Mohammad Rafique c Johnston b Langford-Smith 2 (9)
Abdur Razzak b McCallan 11 (21)
Shahadat Hossain not out 0 (2)
Extras : 22 (Wides : 18 No Balls: 0 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 4)
Total : 169 all out (Overs : 41.2)
Fall of Wickets : 1-18 (Shahriar Nafees, 6.3 ovs), 2-45 (Aftab Ahmed, 10.1 ovs), 3-48 (Saqibul Hasan, 12.4 ovs), 4-93 (Tamim Iqbal, 19.6 ovs), 5-102 (Mohammad Ashraful, 21.6 ovs), 6-131 (Mushfiqur Rahim, 30.4 ovs), 7-134 (Mashrafe Mortaza, 31.2 ovs), 8-138 (Mohammad Rafique, 33.4 ovs), 9-169 (Abdur Razzak, 40.4 ovs), 10-169 (Habibul Bashar, 41.2 ovs)
Ireland Bowling
Rankin 8-0-42-2 (9wd)
Langford-Smith 10-1-27-2 (3wd)
Botha 8-0-31-1
Johnston 7.2-0-40-2 (2wd)
McCallan 8-1-25-2