Tector ton headlines Ireland's strong batting performance

Ireland set up areas of strength for a with the bat in the opening ODI against New Zealand in Dublin on Sunday (July 10) as they posted 300/9 to hand their rivals a solid test. The innings was featured by a shimmering century from their number 4 Harry Tector, who arrived in an essential stage to capture a slide. Ireland didn't get off to the best of starts. The absolute first conveyance of the innings tracked down the external edge however Paul Stirling figured out how to make due as the ball sidestepped the slip defenders to hurry to the limit. However, his karma ran out genuine speedy as Lockie Ferguson hit the wood with a wonderful inswinger only eight conveyances later. Andrew Balbirnie was the close to leave as Matt Henry bowled the ideal outswinger to take the batsman's edge with the wicketkeeper wrapping up. The early wickets didn't prevent Tector from playing positive cricket as he added two or three limits before the finish of the powerplay. While he did dial back post that, Andy McBrine kept the scorecard ticking with convenient limits and raised the 50 years stand simultaneously. New Zealand then, at that point, needed to bring Ferguson back into the assault again to break the stand and he didn't dishearten. Ireland would have been blue with that excusal as McBrine cut a free conveyance, just to convey a dainty edge to the manager. Post that, it was the Tector-Curtis Campher show. While Campher was scoring at nearly run-a-ball, Tector began pushing his strike rate too. At one phase in the innings, pretty much every over saw the two players bring something like one limit as the run rate went past five at long last after 35 overs. At that stage, Ireland were flawlessly set at 178/3 preceding the brilliant arm of debutant Glenn Phillips got the job done. Campher, endeavoring to cut a conveyance that wasn't sufficiently close, found his stumps improved. Tector assumed responsibility post the excusal and any semblance of Lorcan Tucker and George Dockrell contributed with valuable appearances too. Tector in the end raised his lady ODI hundred yet he was important for a smaller than expected breakdown that saw New Zealand paw their direction back at the passing. Be that as it may, their expectations of gaining by the breakdown were run by a quickfire 30 from Simi Singh as Ireland came to 300. Brief scores: Ireland 300/9 in 50 overs (Harry Tector 113, Curtis Campher 43; Lockie Ferguson 2/44) vs New Zealand.