Having won the toss and sent the hosts in, Bethell saw opposite number Paul Stirling and Ross Adair set the tone with an attacking opening stand worth 57.<\/p>\n
Both men holed out to spin, Liam Dawson and Adil Rashid the beneficiaries, but Lorcan Tucker and Harry Tector picked up seamlessly with a 123-run partnership off just 68 balls.<\/p>\n
Tector finished 61 not out, with Tucker nicking Jamie Overton\u2019s penultimate delivery of the innings behind for 55.<\/p>\n
That brought George Dockrell to the crease for exactly one ball, a full toss which he promptly hammered all the way over the mid-wicket boundary. That was Ireland\u2019s 12th six of the day, with the big-hitting Stirling and Tucker helping themselves to four each.<\/p>\n
England\u2019s attack, without the rested Jofra Archer and Brydon Carse, looked short of menace on a true pitch. Sam Curran was taken for 43 in four overs, routinely hit off a length and failing to strike with his trademark slower balls, and Overton\u2019s allocation went for 40.<\/p>\n
Rashid was a little short of his best, seeing a pair of loopy full tosses smashed into the stands, but out-bowled left-armer Liam Dawson.<\/p>\n
Rehan Ahmed, carded to bat at four on his first England appearance of the year, was handed just one over by Bethell, conceding nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having won the toss and sent the hosts in, Bethell saw opposite number Paul Stirling and Ross Adair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-431402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115220215771008156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431402","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=431402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}