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

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Alvin McCaig

  1. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    That skidded low. Another seam up delivery, just angles in towards Paul Stirling and it's a dropped catch behind the sticks.

  2. Missed stumping

    Maheesh Theekshana deceives Paul Stirling but wicketkeeper Dasun Shanaka fails to collect and misses out on a stumping.

  3. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Let's just say they only get 35, they can't be two wickets down. Someone in that top five has to score runs. Someone has to get fifty.

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

    To get close, it feels like Ireland need to have a 50-run powerplay - that would be helpful.

  5. Ire 5-0

    Dushmantha Chameera almost gets a quick wicket as the ball just misses the stumps after a Paul Stirling play and miss.

    Ross Adair hits a boundary from the final ball.

  6. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Paul StirlingGetty Images

    It's not a mountain to climb here for Ireland. The last five overs seems an absolute disaster and it was. But on reflection, they're not chasing a million.

  7. The action is set to resume - here come Irish openers Paul Stirlng and Ross Adair.

  8. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It should have been so much less. Ireland will be bitterly disappointed with how they've closed that innings out. After 14 overs, they were well and truly on top of the game.

    To put it in context, if you'd have said to them you're chasing 164 to win against Sri Lanka, they'd have bitten your hand off. But they should have been chasing a lot less.

    That over from Humphreys, three dropped catches, completely changed the momentum of the game for Sri Lanka and they capitalised on the mistakes.

    Ireland will be feeling flat but they've got to back themselves. They're only chasing 164.

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

    Sri Lanka have somehow made it to 163-6. I don't think it's a decisive total but it could've been so much less.

  10. SL 163-6

    Kusal Mendis in actionGetty Images

    Sri Lanka complete their innings and after a slow start they have set Ireland a competitive target to chase.

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

    Kusal Mendis brings up his half-century. It started pretty slowly but in the last few overs, he's started to get going. Sri Lanka - I don't know how - are 158-6.

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

    Adair drops a tough return catch. It was thrashed back at him. He did well to get a hand to it.

  13. dropped catch

    Dropped catch

    Kusal Menis brings up his half-century before seeing his shot dropped by bowler Mark Adair - a tough chance for the paceman.

  14. SL 154-6

    Two wickets but that was a costly over from Barry McCarthy, conceding 19 runs.

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

    It's just alright. It's the very top of the buttocks.

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

    Two in two for Barry McCarthy. Shanaka goes first ball.

    But it's being checked. The umpires are in conflab. Shanaka has gone nowhere.

    If this is out, McCarthy is going to be on one of the most unlikely World Cup hat-tricks.

  17. wicket

    WICKET

    Shanaka c Adair b McCarthy 0 (SL 153-6)

    After an umpire review Dasan Shanaka is given out - they were checking is Barry McCarthy's delivery was too high.

    Mark Adair takes the catch and McCarthy is on a hat-trick.

  18. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    The way it was going, you thought that one might just have gone over Dockrell's head but he could stand still and take the catch.

    Ireland might just be able to slow things down now Shanaka has come to the middle. Keep the new batter on strike, surely.

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

    Driven down the ground and into the hands of George Dockrell, who takes the catch with a sigh of relief.

    This partnership has swung the game if not decisively in Sri Lanka's favour, it's put them in the box seat.

    George Dockrell catches the ballGetty Images
  20. wicket

    WICKET

    Kaminda c Dockrell b McCarthy 44 (153-5)

    Sri Lanka's luck runs out as George Dockrell takes the catch to dismiss Kaminda Mendis.