New Zealand beat Ireland by a big margin of 88 runs to seal the T20I series.

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The 2nd T20I Match of the New Zealand tour of Ireland, 2022 played yesterday at Civil Service Cricket Club, Belfast, in which New Zealand beat Ireland by a big margin of 88 runs to seal the series.

Ireland won the toss and invited New Zealand to bat first, New Zealand batted first started the inning very brillantly, Martin Guptill and Finn Allen came to start the inning and gave a brilliant start with a partnership of 44 runs for the first wicket, the first wicket has gone for 44 runs in 4.2 over, Finn Allen dismissed after playing a very brilliant quick inning of 35 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 4 boundaries in just 20 balls, next batsman Dane Cleaver came to bat and handled the inning with Martin Guptill, the second wicket has gone for 70 runs in last ball of the 9th over, Martin Guptill dismissed for 11 runs in 17 balls, next batsman Glenn Phillips came to bat and played well with Dane Cleaver, the third wicket has gone for 123 runs in 14.2 over, Glenn Phillips dismissed after playing a quick inning of 23 runs 16 balls, followed by Daryl Mitchell came to bat and he good strike rotate with Dane Cleaver, the fourth wicket has gone for 171 runs in last ball of the 19th over, Daryl Mitchell dismissed for 14 runs in 10 balls, next batsman James Neesham came to bat and he remains unbeaten for 1 run with Dane Cleaver, and Dane Cleaver played a very brilliant unbeaten half-century inning of 78 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 5 bounadries in just 55 balls, in this way, New Zealand scored 179 runs for losing just 4 wickets in 20 overs and set a target of 180 runs in front of Ireland.

Ireland's bowlers Joshua Little took 2 wickets for 31 runs, and Craig Young took 2 wickets for 34 runs.

Ireland chasing 180 runs in the second inning the entire team was dismissed just for 91 runs in the fifth ball of the 14th over, Ireland started the inning very badly, Mark Adair scored 27 runs in 22 balls, Paul Stirling 21 runs in 15 balls, Curtis Campher 14 runs in 14 balls, Barry McCarthy 11 runs in 8 balls, Andrew Balbirnie 10 runs in 11 balls, Harry Tector dismissed just for 2 runs, Lorcan Tucker 2 runs, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Craig Young dismissed without scoring, and Joshua Little remains unbeaten without playing any balls, in this way wickets continuously failed one after another and at the end the entire team all-out just for 91 runs in 13.5 over and lost the match by a big margin of 88 runs.

New Zealand's bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Michael Bracewell took 3 wickets just for 5 runs in 5 balls, Ish Sodhi took 3 wickets just for 21 runs in 3 overs, Jacob Duffy took 2 wickets just for 20 runs in 3 overs, and Lockie Ferguson got 1 wicket for 10 runs in 2 overs.

New Zealand's batsman Dane Cleaver was selected as the best player of the match, he played a very brilliant unbeaten half-century inning of 78 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 5 boundaries in just 55 balls.

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