MATCH PREVIEW: Ireland look to pick themselves up with a positive finish to T20 series

Ireland must dust themselves off and go again after being on the receiving end of a superb display of hitting from Afghanistan in the second T20I, with Hazratullah Zazai’s unbeaten century setting the platform for a series-sealing 84-run victory. Zazai smashed 162* from 62 balls, the second-highest individual score in a T20I, as the Afghans…

Records tumble as Afghanistan clinch T20 series over Ireland

DEHRADUN – Paul Stirling’s highest score in T20 internationals wasn’t enough to deny Afghanistan, who produced a virtuoso display of hitting to win by 84 runs in Dehradun and take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. Stirling struck 91 from 50 balls – Ireland’s highest-ever individual score in T20Is – but the day belonged…