{"id":188046,"date":"2025-06-16T04:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T04:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/188046\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T04:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T04:09:11","slug":"ireland-v-west-indies-visitors-beat-ireland-to-win-t20-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/188046\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v West Indies: Visitors beat Ireland to win T20 series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Indies secured a 1-0 series win over Ireland after victory in the third and final T20 at Bready.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first two games of the three-match series on Thursday and Saturday were abandoned without a ball being bowled due to heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conditions cleared on Sunday to allow the third game to go ahead, with Ireland winning the toss and opting to bowl first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Indies set a chase of 256, their second-highest T20 score, after some superb batting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland failed to get close to with Akeal Hosein claiming three wickets as the visitors won by 62 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Indies started well and registered 122 runs after 10.3 overs without Ireland taking a wicket, through the partnership of Evin Lewis and Shai Hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barry McCarthy eventually got the breakthrough for the hosts by removing Hope for 51.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Indies secured a 1-0 series win over Ireland after victory in the third and final T20 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-188046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114691084458004824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}