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They’ve both been eliminated in tournament
LAUDERHILL (Dunya News) –Pakistan will play its last match against Ireland on Sunday (today).
In the 36th match of the T20 World Cup hosted by the United States and the West Indies under International Cricket Council (ICC), the teams of Pakistan and Ireland will face each other at the Central Broward Regional Park Cricket Stadium in the US state of Florida. The match will start at 7:30 pm as per Pakistan time
There were washouts in Lauderhill on Friday and Saturday, but the forecast for Sunday isn’t as bad.
Pakistan and Ireland find themselves in that last position, in extremely wet conditions in Lauderhill, Florida. They’ve both been eliminated from the T20 World Cup, and nothing that happens during their final group game on Sunday can change that.
But it must be played, weather permitting, and so they will gear up for one more fixture that will have no impact on this tournament, and almost certainly no implications on qualification for the next one in 2026.
Babar Azam’s side can do little to change the mood back home, though another defeat won’t help at all.
Ireland have also endured a disappointing tournament, especially since the build-up was promising. A home win over Pakistan and victory in a T20 tri-nation series in the Netherlands.
But crumpling on a horror pitch in New York against India set the tone for a dismal campaign, with a defeat against Canada the nadir. While their qualification chances were theoretically alive before Lauderhill’s weather washed out their match against the hosts, all that’s left now is the hope that they may end their party in the USA on a high note.
Team news
Pakistan may give Abrar Ahmed and Abbas Afridi – the two players who haven’t got a game so far – a start.
PAKISTAN: (probable) 1 Mohammad Rizwan (wk) 2 Saim Ayub 3 Babar Azam (capt) 4 Fakhar Zaman 5 Usman Khan 6 Shadab Khan 7 Imad Wasim 8 Shaheen Afridi/Abbas Afridi 9 Naseem Shah/Abrar Ahmed 10 Haris Rauf 11 Mohammad Amir
It’s been over a week since Ireland last played, so it’s trickier to predict how Ireland line-up.
IRELAND: (probable) 1 Andy Balbirnie 2 Paul Stirling (capt) 3 Lorcan Tucker (wk) 4 Harry Tector 5 Curtis Campher 6 George Dockrell 7 Gareth Delany 8 Mark Adair 9 Barry McCarthy 10 Josh Little 11 Craig Young/Ben White
Pitch and conditions
The matches in Lauderhill between USA and Ireland on Friday, and India and Canada on Saturday, were both abandoned without a toss because of lots of rain and an extremely wet outfield. The forecast for Sunday is better, however, but it depends on how much rain falls overnight and the state of the outfield in the morning.
Pakistan have never before been eliminated from a T20 World Cup after just three games
Ireland have lost four successive completed T20 World Cup games. They have only had one worse run, when they lost six in a row across the 2009, 2010 and 2012 World Cups.
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