Watch cricket video highlights of Ireland and South Africa tour of UAE 2024. 2nd ODI between IRE and SA. Venue of the match will be Abu Dhabi.
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With 174 runs to spare, South Africa defeated Ireland 2-0 in the series thanks to a century from Tristan Stubbs in his first ODI. Having won the toss in Abu Dhabi, Stubbs followed up his maiden ODI fifty in the previous game with an undefeated 81-ball 112 that propelled South Africa to 343 for 4. Within the first ten overs of Ireland’s chase, Lizaad Williams took three wickets, all with the new ball, virtually ending the match. After Ireland fell to 117 for 9, they needed Graham Hume and Craig Young to put on the third-highest 10-wicket partnership in Irish history to get them reach 169.
With South Africa at 136 for 2, Stubbs entered the batting in the 24th over, however he was essentially batting at No. 5 since Temba Bavuma had retired injured due to a left elbow injury. Stubbs started briskly and his partner Kyle Verreynne picked up the pace after he had been part of a 58-run stand with Rassie van der Dussen. After replacing the injured Tony de Zorzi in the starting lineup, Verreynne took on any short ball. He first dragged Gavin Hoey for four before hitting Mark Adair with a short-arm jab through midwicket.
Stubbs also pulled Adair for his first boundary two balls later. Subsequently, in the third over, Verreynne dismissed Adair for four more times, marking both his fifty-run stand and his fifty-score. As Ireland looked at alternative chances for a breakthrough, Stubbs smashed Hume past cover before playing a back-foot punch over cover for six off a Hoey half-tracker. Before Verreynne danced down the track to McBrine, the two knocked away a few more short balls, but she missed the ball and was stumped. After then, there were 28 balls without a boundary until Stubbs got to 70 by scooping Hume in the 43rd over.
After Wiaan Mulder dismissed a few short balls in the following two overs, Hume let up eighteen in the 46th over, with Stubbs responsible for seventeen of them. He gave him two sixes and a flipped four in between when he hammered him over midwicket. Before a single raised the century, Stubbs got an outside edge for four in the 48th to move him to 99. After Mulder cleared the long-on and he picked out the fielder there to fall for 43, he hit two more boundaries either side. Even though Adair gave up just five runs in the fiftyth over, South Africa appeared to have plenty of runs left in them.
In men’s ODIs, this was just the third occasion where all six members of a side scored 35 or more. Following a four-for in the opening ODI, Williams provided South Africa’s first breakthrough in the second over when Andy Balbirnie received an inside edge that drifted off his pads and onto the stumps. Lungi Ngidi was first to be removed by Paul Stirling with a creaming stroke, and then the fast bowler got a length ball to glide in quickly from outside off and crash into leg stump.
Harry Tector and Curtis Campher rebuilt with a run-a-ball stand of 37, before Williams struck twice in two balls, getting Campher to edge behind before trapping Stephen Doheny in front. In order to demonstrate the ball clipping leg stump for the umpire’s call, Doheny merely looked over ball tracking. After inviting Tector to move away from his body, Ottneil Baartman created an edge that Rickelton devoured. In the tenth over, Ireland had conceded fifty runs and lost half their side.
In the thirteenth over, George Dockrell then chipped Andile Phehlukwayo to mid-on as Ireland headed for yet another crushing defeat. Before he was bowled out trying to clear the ropes once again, Adair struck two fours and a six, giving Mulder his maiden wicket. Gavin Hoey and Andy McBrine stayed put, and in the 22nd over, the youthful legspinner smashed Mulder over cover for six runs, pushing Ireland beyond 100. Before McBrine missed a reverse-sweep off the spinner to be trapped leg before wicket, they each picked up a boundary off Bjorn Fortuin.
After Hoey got a top edge for another four off the following ball from Ngidi, he holed out to deep midwicket. After that, Hume and Young put on 52 to postpone the inevitable. Before Fortuin sealed the victory for South Africa, Hume struck two sixes and Young hit three fours and a six. After winning the toss, South Africa made a solid opening stand, with Ryan Rickelton continuing where he left off in the first ODI and Bavuma looking sharp following his cheap wicket in that match.
Bavuma moved down the crease to flick Hume through midwicket in the fourth over for South Africa’s first boundary, and Rickelton then clipped Adair over midwicket for two boundaries in the following over. After giving Craig Young a smack in front of the basket, Bavuma approached Adair to help him up mid-off. The last ball of the powerplay was exploited by the two as Rickelton blasted Young for six over long-off and Bavuma then flicked him over midwicket for another. Bavuma then was hurt in the 12th over as he dove to complete a single.
After receiving treatment for his left elbow, he continued during the non-striker’s innings but departed the game two balls into the opening stand injured at 68. Rickelton smacked Campher through the off side for another boundary before handing Campher a return catch to fall ten runs short of what would have been back-to-back half-centuries. It was then that Verreynne and Van der Dussen assumed over, since they both learned boundaries from Campher.
On 11, Verreynne almost avoided a stumping opportunity as McBrine hit a ball down the leg side and Doheny took too long to remove the bails. Before Hoey got van der Dussen to inside-edge a wrong’un onto the stumps off his foot for his first-ever ODI wicket, the two reached their half-century stand.
