Paul Stirling: Ireland’s veteran player Paul Stirling once again showed his bat power and scored a brilliant century against Sri Lanka. With this he has created history.
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New Delhi: The Ireland team is currently playing a Test series in Sri Lanka. The second Test match of the series is currently being played at the Galle International Stadium. second day of the match Ireland The Sri Lankan team got badly troubled by the two batsmen. These players are Kurtis Kaempfer and Paul Stirling. These players scored centuries in this match. Batting first in the match, Ireland scored a mammoth score of 492 runs.
Ireland’s batsmen surprised the Sri Lankan bowlers and rained runs. No one expected that the Irish batsmen would thrash the Sri Lankan bowlers like this at home.
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created a ruckus by coming at number seven
In this match, Kurtis Campher scored the most runs for Ireland. He scored an inning of 111 runs in 229 balls with the help of 15 fours and two sixes. The special thing about his innings was that this century was scored by Kurtis at number seven. Coming at this number, it is not easy for anyone to score a century. But Kurtis did this work, that too against Sri Lanka in his own house.
This is Kurtis’s first century in Test. With this century of Curtis, Ireland was able to convert a good start into a big score. This was only the third test of Kurtis and in this he showed his ability by scoring a century.
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A maiden Test match century for Paul Stirling! Brought up in fitting style with a six 💥
Sensational innings, he now has centuries in all formats of international cricket 👏👏
WATCH: https://t.co/uMsnHMi5xS
SCORE: https://t.co/epQHAclj0P#BackingGreen #SRIvIRE pic.twitter.com/jlqZyla8IL— Cricket Ireland (@cricketireland) April 25, 2023
Paul Sterling also did wonders
Before Kurtis, Ireland team’s experienced player Paul Stirling also scored a century. With this century, Sterling also created history. This is his first century in Test. With this, he has become the first batsman from Ireland to score a century in all three formats of cricket.
Sterling In the first innings of this match, he faced 181 balls and scored 103 runs with the help of nine fours and four sixes. His century laid the foundation for Ireland’s big score, which was completed by Curtis and Lorcan Tucker. Tucker scored an innings of 80 runs off 106 balls and shared an 89-run partnership with Kurtis. Apart from all these, Andy Balbirnie scored an inning of 95 runs.
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