Stirling's blistering fifty leads Ireland to avoid the clean sweep
Mark Adair ran riot through the Bangladesh batting lineup with the ball before Stirling storm snatched the match from Bangladesh.

Posted - 2023-03-31T17:29:13+06:00
Updated - 2023-04-01T13:39:21+06:00
Ireland won the final T20I by 7 wickets and 6 overs in hands to avoid the whitewash and to have a consolation win in the series.
Earlier the day, Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan won the toss and he chose to bat first.
Rony and Litton's great run of opening partnership didn’t flourish today as they stuttered against the Irish bowlers. Mark Adair came with the hammerblow as he got Litton measly in the very 2nd over. Nazmul Shanto was gone in the very next over scoring only 4 off 8 balls. Harry Tector was the man to take the wicket of the number three batter of Bangladesh.
The flow to fall wickets was continuing as Curtis Campher got the inform batter Rony Talukder. Things would've been alright if Adair didn’t get the marquee all rounder Shakib Al Hasan in the sixth over. When Shakib found himself in the hands of Benjamin White Bangladesh became 41-4.
Towhid Hridoy tried to slog White and only managed to reach Tector. Tector grabbed the ball and Hridoy was livid at himself to throw his wicket at the crucial stage of the innings.
Humphreys' double blow in 9th over put Bangladesh in the back foot. But Shamim and Nasum stitched a handy partnership of 33 runs to bail Bangladesh out of the hole.
Shamim stood tall in the Bangladesh's crisis day. He took the onus on his shoulders after the fall of Nasum. He cracked a fantastic fifty off 41 balls, whuch is his maiden fifty in T20I. He smashed six and four for consecutive balls in the 19th over to breach the three digit mark.
Nevertheless Bangladesh posted a paltry total of 124. For Ireland, Adair was the pick of the bowlers as he bagged 3 wickets conceding only 25 runs in his four over quota.
Chasing the meagre target, Ireland had a sedate start. Taskin cleaned up the stumps of Ross Adair with a corker. But Irish skipper Paul Stirling had other plans. He smoked Hasan Mahmud for 14 runs in the fourth over, which totally shifted the impetus towards Ireland. And Ireland raced to 47-2 after the powerplay. They needed 78 runs from 84 balls, which was a cakewalk for Irish to reach.
Stirling was at his best today, smacking everything that came towards him. He made a swashbuckling 77 off 41 balls with 4 monstrous blows and 10 boundaries to take his side home.
Stirling was adjusted player of the match award for his brilliant match winning fifty and Taskin was named as the player of the series for scalping 8 wickets in this series, including a four wicket haul in the first match.