After a big day of battle on Sunday February 15^th 2015 and India’s blasting victory over the arch rivals Pakistan now it’s a day for the battle of Ireland with West Indies.  Ireland and West Indies appears to have equal opportunities in winning out their head to head match in pool B. However Ireland surprised everyone across the globe defeating West Indies with 4 wickets in Nelson.

Ireland Vs West Indies 5th Match Live Updates:

Ireland has amazed every cricket follower across the globe with the incredible sportsmanship spirit defeating the competitive team in a head  to head match of them in Pool B on Monday February 15^th 2015. Though Irish batsmen’s Paul Stirling and Ed Joyce had ascended on to the cricket pitch with the mesmerizing performances while what made them disappointed despite winning is that missing a ton each to score in the initial match of theirs at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.  Both the Irish batsmen seem to be half happy with the four-wicket victory over West Indies at Saxton Oval in Nelson on Monday.

Both Joyce and Opener Stirling shared 106-run partnership where Stirling scored 92 and Joyce scored 84 where the one down Niall O’Brien further added unbeatable 79 runs standing alone in the crease and leading their team to register their first victory over the West Indies in 45.5 overs.

Ireland Vs West Indies Match Highlights:

West Indies left gave a score of 304 for seven for the Ireland who later chased it out scoring 307 for the loss of 6 in 45.5 overs. For Ireland this is the third successive World Cup they have beaten a test-playing team after victories over Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2007 and England in 2011. Ireland Captain said that “It’s obviously fantastic. The way we chased those runs was great. It sets us up for the next few games and it’s a great position to be in. We know what we are capable of and we believed going out the pitch today, that we could win not only this game but other games in the competition and we want to continue that.”

The sixth wicket partnership of West Indies between the Lendl Simmons and Darren Sammy boosted the score of Indies in setting a 300 excess target where Lendl Simmons smashed a century with a personal score of 102 and Darren Sammy with a personal score of 89 runs each. Before the tournament, Jason Holder’s side had been in disarray before the tournament with off-spinner Sunil Narine withdrawing and the players involved in a bitter wrangle with their board overpayments. Losing with Ireland in the first match and turning down the hopes of all, West Indies might have been making themselves vulnerable to the worst circumstances and if this goes on they might not making the quarter-finals from Pool B. The confidence of Ireland grew with winning toss initially when then captain William Porterfield choose to filed after winning the toss which made gave them a upper hand over the Indies.

Score Board of Ireland Vs. West Indies ICC Cricket World Cup 5th Match

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Despite any experienced bowlers Irish team has been up with good strategies initially in terms of bowling where they bowled well and took advantage of the pitch conditions and bowled tight line and length to strangle the West Indies top order. West Indies scoring was arrested and one after the other batsmen was sent to the pavilion with the spinners George Dockrell and Andy McBrine. Simmons and Sammy of West Indies proved to be good from the rest of batsmen’s. West Indies player Jason Holder said that “It was a tough loss, putting 300 runs on the board we backed ourselves to defend it, we need to tighten up and be better in the games to come.”

Ireland vs West Indies World Cup Match Information:

Match: Ireland vs West Indies, 5th Match Pool B , ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2015

Start Time: 10:00 PM GMT

Venue: Saxton Oval, Nelson

Umpires: Richard Illingworth, Bruce Oxenford

3rd Umpire: Chris Gaffaney

Match Referee: Chris Broad

Ireland Squad:

Playing XI:     William Porterfield, Paul Stirling, Ed Joyce, Niall O’Brien, Andrew Balbirnie, Gary Wilson, Kevin O’Brien, John Mooney, Max Sorensen, George Dockrell, Andy McBrine

Bench: Craig Young, Alex Cusack, Peter Chase, Stuart Thompson

West Indies Squad:

Playing XI:     Chris Gayle, Dwayne Smith, Darren Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Denesh Ramdin, Lendl Simmons, Darren Sammy, Andre Russell, Jason Holder, Jerome Taylor, Kemar Roach

Bench: Nikita Miller, Sheldon Cottrell, Jonathan Carter, Sulieman Benn