With sacrifices by Rickelton, Stubbs and Williams RSA won the 1st ODI match and lead the series 1-0

Career-best ODI scores from Ryan Rickelton and Tristan Stubbs respectively and career-best List A figures of 4-32 from Lizaad Williams helped South Africa crush Ireland by 139 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Rickelton and Stubbs put on a 152-run organization in two small scale falls to assist South Africa with getting to 271 preceding Williams' three-for in an eight-over opening spell left Ireland five down inside 14 overs. Ireland ultimately just got to 132. South Africa got off to a vigilant beginning, with Rickelton doing a greater part of the scoring right off the bat. He slice Imprint Adair through point for a limit off the principal bundle of the match prior to hitting several cover drives off Graham Hume and Adair. In the middle between, Hume actuated the external edge from him yet was dropped by wicketkeeper Stephen Doheny. Be that as it may, Adair made the leap forward in the seventh over, when he changed strategies and banged one in short. Tony de Zorzi got a top edge as he hoped to pull and was taken at profound in reverse square. Temba Bavuma was then given out lbw first ball as a length ball rugged in from outside off, yet was reprieved as he explored and ball-following showed the ball going over center stump. However, it was fleeting help for the South African chief, as Craig Youthful got another inducker to beat his safeguard and crash into the stumps. Two wickets in two overs became three out of three as Adair finished his most memorable spell by getting Rassie van der Dussen to edge to second slip. When the first powerplay finished, turn came in and that prompted more possibilities. Stubbs attempted to switch clear Andy Mcbrine however hit it directly to short third where Craig Youthful shelled a catch in the seventeenth over. One ball later, Rickelton hurled debutant legspinner Gavin Hoey down the ground and just cleared long-on, who was standing a couple of yards inside the ropes and needed to follow back. Hume returned into the assault in the 22nd over, and was sent off over lengthy on by Stubbs as he raised 50 years stand with Rickelton. Rickelton raised his lady ODI 50 years off 74 balls in the 26th over and quickly put his foot down on the gas pedal. Hoey bowled several half-volleys and Rickelton initially hurled him down the ground before trudge clearing him over midwicket. At the point when Hoey abbreviated his length, Rickelton acclimated to control it past the wicketkeeper for a limit in what was a 18-run over. Stubbs raised a 62-run fifty in the following over, before Rickelton slapped Campher through in reverse point for one more limit to raise the century stand. While the initial fifty runs of their organization took 73 balls, they took only 39 balls to get the following fifty. Stubbs then, at that point, descended the ground to Craig Youthful for a six over lengthy on that raised 150 for South Africa in the 30th over, before Hoey was cleared behind square by Rickelton next finished. Indeed, even as Stubbs hit McBrine and Adair for limits, that was the last one Rickelton hit. In the wake of confronting ten balls without a limit, Rickelton attempted to pursue a full and wide conveyance from McBrine however wound up hauling the ball on, falling nine runs shy of a lady ODI century. That excusal ignited another smaller than normal breakdown as Adair joined with Balbirnie for two wickets in his next two overs. Stubbs pulled the quick bowler to Balbirnie at short midwicket before Phehlukwayo was finished in by a more slow ball and wound up spooning it short cover. A more slow ball achieved one more wicket as Wiaan Mulder was from the get-go in his endeavor to pull Youthful and holed out at profound midwicket. Youthful then had his third when Williams skied his draw to profound midwicket, as South Africa lost five wickets for 38 runs. Bjorn Fortuin took South Africa past 250 as he hit Youthful for two limits prior to pulling Hume to midwicket for a 34-ball 28. Ngidi then hit a four and a six to take South Africa to 271. Ngidi kept giving South Africa force when the pursuit started, as he got Paul Stirling to hack on. Balbirnie and Curtis Campher then reconstructed for Ireland, adding 35 runs including top-edged sixes from the two players, before Williams drew an inside edge from Balbirnie that hit the stumps. Harry Tector brought out two perfect drives, one through point and one down the ground, off continuous balls from Williams before he was caught in front next ball. Williams then, at that point, inspired one to stop on Campher, who was right on time into a shot and wound up offering a basic catch to cover.