Bangladesh’s Taskin Ahmed celebrates dismissing Andrew Balbirnie within the first ODI in Sylhet in March
Andrew Balbirnie says Eire’s sole focus is on the opening ODI towards Bangladesh as they intention for a 3-0 win to maintain their World Cup hopes alive.
The skipper will lead out his aspect at Chelmsford on Tuesday figuring out they want a whitewash to retain hope of reaching subsequent month’s World Cup Qualifier.
He mentioned: “We’re a assured crew however we will not get too far forward of ourselves.
“We’ll simply have to consider profitable the primary recreation after which work on the second match.”
A 3-0 victory might not even be sufficient for the Irish as they intention to pip South Africa to the ultimate qualifying spot to make the World Cup in India later this yr.
A whitewash would take them stage on factors with the Proteas they usually should higher their run-rate to complete eighth within the World Cup Tremendous League.
It’s a tall order for Balbirnie’s crew after dropping 2-0 to Bangladesh of their ODI collection in Sylhet two months in the past, whereas the Tigers beat the Irish by six wickets after they met in Dublin in 2019.
Eire’s bowling assault is bolstered by the return of paceman Josh Little following his profitable maiden Indian Premier League marketing campaign with Gujarat Titans.
Celebration time for Josh Little after taking the wicket of Kolkata Knight Riders’ Nitish Rana within the IPL
Balbirnie, 32, added: “Bangladesh are a really skilled crew and notably with the bat. They know the sport inside out they usually’ve clearly been very profitable in their very own circumstances enjoying ODI cricket.
“They would not have performed an excessive amount of in England aside from the 2019 World Cup, and we performed them in the identical yr. They are a well-run crew they usually’ll wish to come right here and whitewash us. We have got to verify we will cease that and play some fairly good cricket doing that.
“Josh’s return is a big enhance – he has turn out to be a world-class operator and we’re very grateful to have him again within the squad for these video games.
“He is had a extremely good time of it within the IPL so…
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