New Zealand Restrict Ireland To 216 In 2nd ODI
Matt Henry, Michael Bracewell and Mitchell Santner took two wickets each to keep the Black Caps on track to win the three-match series.
Matt Henry, Michael Bracewell and Mitchell Santner took two wickets each to keep the Black Caps on track to win the three-match series.
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Having narrowly won the first match of the series by one wicket on Sunday, New Zealand established a stranglehold on a tricky pitch at Malahide despite George Dockrell's career best ODI score of 74 from 61 balls.
Setting the tone with a wicket maiden that included the dismissal of Paul Stirling, Henry also removed Andy Balbirnie to leave Ireland 5-2.
Henry and Jacob Duffy, making his ODI debut, turned the screw on Ireland as the hosts managed to reach only 19-2 after the first powerplay.
Ireland needed 21 balls to get off the mark and 57 balls to hit a boundary through Andy McBrine.
McBrine scored 28 off 48 balls before Bracewell had him stumped, starting a tight spell of 10 overs for just 26 runs.
Santner, back from a bout of Covid-19, kept the pressure on for New Zealand with a tidy spell.
Dockrell and Simi Singh amassed a 59-run seventh-wicket stand off 48 balls.
Reaching his third ODI fifty off 48 balls, Dockrell hit three fours and a six in the space of just six balls.
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Duffy ended Dockrell's run-spree with his maiden ODI wicket before Mark Adair's rapid 27 off 15 balls took Ireland past 200.
