Ireland white-ball skipper Paul Stirling achieved a rare feat in T20Is as his facet beat Afghanistan in the first recreation of the three-match collection in Sharjah defending a middling whole of 149 runs. Stirling, who’s the fifth main run-getter in males’s T20Is, grew to become the first male cricketer to rating 400 fours in the format in worldwide cricket. Stirling throughout his 25-run knock on Friday, March 15 smashed a pair of fours and a six to breach the 400-mark.
Overall, Stirling is the third cricketer in T20Is to achieve the landmark after Suzie Bates and Meg Lanning however first in males’s T20Is with former Pakistan captain Babar Azam in second place with 395 boundaries. Former India skipper Virat Kohli follows Babar in the third place with 361 fours to his title with present captain Rohit Sharma subsequent to him with 359 boundaries in the shortest format.
Most fours in T20IsÂ
Paul Stirling – 401 (135 matches)
Babar Azam – 395 (109 matches)
Virat Kohli – 361 (117 matches)
Rohit Sharma – 359 (151 matches)
David Warner – 320 (103 matches)
With two video games left in the collection and a T20 World Cup to come in June, Stirling has a chance to construct a large lead forward of Babar, who would possibly surpass the Irish skipper with Pakistan set to play a T20I collection in April and then in May forward of the marquee match.
As for the match, Harry Tector’s unbeaten 56 off 34 guided Ireland to a aggressive rating of 149 runs on that gradual Sharjah wicket. However, contemplating the Afghanistan batting line-up and their expertise on the venue, the Afghans would have fancied their probabilities to chase that whole down. However, it wasn’t to be.
Ben White with a four-wicket haul and Josh Little’s three wickets did not let Afghanistan settle and Irish bowlers stored taking wickets at common intervals to ultimately win the sport by 38 runs and take a 1-0 lead.
