ICC World Cup 2K15 5th match of Pool B was against West Indies and Ireland. This match was at Saxton Oval, Nelson.
The squad for this match
Ireland:- William Poterfield, Paul Stirling, Ed Joyce, Nail O'Brien, Andrew Balbirine, Gary Wilson, Kevin O'Brien, John Mooney, Max Sorensen, George Dockrell, Andy Mcbrine
West Indies:- Chris Gayle, Dwayne Smith, Darren Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Denesh Ramdin, Lendl Simmons, Darren Sammy, Andre Russell, Jason Holder, Jerome Taylor, Kemar Roach.
Here Ireland won the fixture with 4 wickets in their Bag.
Ireland won the toss and elected to bowl first. West Indies innings had an bad start. At one stage West Indies were at 87/5. But Darren Sammy and Lendl Simmons ensured that they will give tough fight to Ireland. Darren sammay and Lindl Simmons had an awesome partnership of 154 runs. Lendl Simmons had an quite inning were he made up the mark of 102 in 84 balls which helped The Carrabians to reach the mark of Three-Hundred with support provided by Darren Sammy who scored 89 runs with the strike rate of 132.80 just in 67 balls. These both player had set an quite good target of 304 runs.
Ireland bowler Dockrell had is day, as he entered into the wicket list thrice. Sending Chris Gayle, Marlon Samuels and Danesh Ramdin back to dough out. Ireland continued their good performance onto the pitch with bat on their hands. Paul Stirling, Ed Joyce and Nail O'Brien having their day. Paul Stirling played an awesome inning of 92 runs in 84 balls. Niall O'Brien and Ed Joyce even contributed 79 & 84 runs respectively and took their team behind the lie.
The Carrabians even lacked bowling attack and were showdown on the field with missing catches and poor fielding.
For the next match West Indies faces hard test from Pakistan where they will have to make themselves into a good shape as Ireland plays UAE going into next fixture.
Man of the match:- Paul Stirling
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