Summary

  • Sri Lanka set Ireland target of 164 with Kusal Mendis unbeaten on 56

  • Sri Lanka go 57 deliveries between boundaries but Ireland drop five catches

  • George Dockrell leads Irish bowlers with figures of 2-17

  • Ireland captain Paul Stirling falls for just six in chase

  • Lorcan Tucker and Harry Tector fall as Ireland chase co-hosts, Ben Caltiz and Gareth Delany go in consecutive balls

  • Sri Lanka win by 20 runs as Ireland lose seven wickets in final five overs

  • T20 World Cup, Group B

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Alvin McCaig

  1. Nathan Johns
    Irish cricket journalist on BBC Test Match Special

    Harry Tector and Lorcan TuckerGetty Images

    Tector is cramping. He's stretching it out. Does he have to start going for boundaries?

    I don't think that would be the worst result for Ireland. They bat down to 10 - Barry McCarthy has a T20I fifty.

    One of these two has to take this game on. You don't want to leave your power-hitters with too little time.

  2. Aatif Nawaz
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Ireland are 10 runs ahead of where Sri Lanka were at this point in the innings. But there were some big overs at the end of Sri Lanka's innings. Can Ireland find a way to replicate that?

  3. Nathan Johns
    Irish cricket journalist on BBC Test Match Special

    Tucker's placed that brilliantly. He's picked the googly, rocked onto that back foot and hit it dead straight over the umpire.

  4. Ire 94-2

    Lorcan Tucker goes straight down the ground for a classy four off Wanindu Hasaranga.

    Ireland take 10 from the over.

  5. Will they be costly?

  6. Nathan Johns
    Irish cricket journalist on BBC Test Match Special

    Hasaranga is back on the pitch. He's got the ball in his hand. His hamstring must be reasonably okay.

  7. Aatif Nawaz
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    A better throw and it would have been tight. Needed to be a quick, flat one from the deep. Tucker was comfortably home.

  8. Ire 84-2

    Dunith Wellalage gets one past Lorcan Tucker but it just misses the stumps.

    Close to a run-out off the final ball but not close enough for Sri Lanka as Tucker gets home.

  9. Nathan Johns
    Irish cricket journalist on BBC Test Match Special

    Shanaka ran around his team-mates pointing at his wrist. He's clearly been given a warning about time being an issue. If this gets close and Sri Lanka have to bring a man into the ring, that would be tricky indeed.

  10. Ire 78-2

    A quiet over from Dasun Shanaka with the run-rate for an Ireland victory currently sitting at 9.56 per over.

  11. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    10 off the over was exactly what Ireland needed. They're still in touch. If they can take this game deep, they have the batters to get them over the line.

  12. Ire 72-2

    Harry Tector flicks a wide Matheesha Pathirana delivery for four as Ireland take 10 runs from the over.

    It's finely poised in Colombo.

  13. Ire 62-2

    Harry Tector and Lorcan Tucker are trying to rebuild the Irish innings after the loss of both openers.

    Harry TectorGetty Images

  14. Nathan Johns
    Irish cricket journalist on BBC Test Match Special

    Both of these batters, they grew up playing together. They play for the same domestic team and they're rapid between the wickets.

    They play in third or fourth gear. They run very well with the odd boundary - busy. And then depending on how they go, Campher can do something similar or Dockrell and Calitz can go big.

  15. Nathan Johns
    Irish cricket journalist on BBC Test Match Special

    He didn't pick the wrong'un. He was trying to make room and go over extra cover.

    By making room, he opened the gate for that big ripping googly. He didn't see it out of the hand and he's paid the price.

  16. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Adair goes for a wild hoick and a full straight ball clatters into the stumps. Hasaranga doesn't even really bother to celebrate. He's going off.

  17. wicket

    WICKET

    R Adair b Hasaranga 34 (Ire 56-2)

    Hasaranga carries on and takes a wicket with the final ball of his over - Ross Adair tries to smash it out of the ground but instead sees the ball clatter the stumps.

  18. Nathan Johns
    Irish cricket journalist on BBC Test Match Special

    Hasaranga has the look of a man who's cooked. It's his hamstring.

  19. Wanindu Hasaranga sends down his first two deliveries but now looks to have picked up an injury - the physios are on.

  20. Nathan Johns
    Irish cricket journalist on BBC Test Match Special

    It's been an interesting innings from Ross Adair. Some agricultural shots, some powerful shots.