Today Ireland is playing against Netherlands in the sixth match of the tri national series of Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands. The Ireland team is in very good form. The Ireland team has not been defeated in any of the three matches. Two won and one abandoned. On the other hand, Netherlands are at the bottom of the table with two losses out of 3 matches.
Netherlands won the toss and took the field today. We don't see better batting from Ireland's batsmen today. At the end of 18 overs, Ireland's players managed to collect 127 runs with the loss of 6 wickets. There is no way to call it a good collection. Ireland's batsmen should be given a target of at least 160 runs. But today the Ireland team will probably give a target of 140-145. Netherlands has a big chance to win today's match.
I would say that the Ireland team is less likely to win today unless they can cross 140. Anyway, they might score 160 and I think that's a good run as an international T20 format. So now time to see how their bowling performance going to be. The required run rate will be over 8 for Netherland. I think the chances of wining Ireland is more in today's match I will select Ireland for my bet.
Ireland scored only 57 runs in the first 10 overs. So I thought that the Ireland team would not be able to collect big. However, Ireland managed to collect 104 runs in the last 10 overs. Ireland team has done a good batting. George Dockrell's unbeaten 30-ball 53 in particular was much needed. This is why the Ireland team was able to provide a target of 162 runs.
Netherlands lost today's match by a narrow margin. The players of Netherlands managed to collect 158 runs by losing 5 wickets. Netherlands needed 25 runs in the last 3 overs. But the Netherlands batsmen failed to collect only 25 runs from 18 balls.