Adelaide: World Cup Pool B match between Ireland and Pakistan at the Adelaide Oval today.
Here are few key facts about the match
- Sarfraz Ahmed needs four dismissals to become the seventh wicket-keeper to take 50 ODI dismissals for Pakistan.
- Ed Joyce has been dropped five times in the tournament, the joint-most with Lahiru Thirimanne.
- Niall O’Brien and William Porterfield need to put on 55 runs to become the second Irish pair to record an aggregate ODI partnership of 1,000 runs, after Porterfield and Paul Stirling.
- Shahid Afridi has hit 350 sixes in ODIs, 80 more than anyone else.
- India’s total of 300-7 against Pakistan was the only first innings total of 300 or more in the last 21 ODIs at Adelaide. (AFP)
