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India beat Ireland by eight wickets, in a match that included all of 193 runs. Which is just a little more in two innings than teams were averaging in one during the IPL season just gone. So, after two matches and four innings in New York, the fans here are still waiting to see a team make as many as a hundred, never mind one of the individual players. So far the top score is Rohit Sharma's 52, off 37 balls.
"When you look at T20 cricket you want to see runs, and boundaries, don't you?" complained Ireland's coach Heinrich Malan afterwards. "When you play a game you want the best surface you can get and unfortunately what we've seen over the last couple of games hasn't lived up to that." India's batting coach Vikram Rathour agreed that "it was a challenging wicket".
Wicked would be another word for it, especially when bowlers as good as India's quicks are using it. The ball reared and kicked and jagged and spat and seamed and stopped; one would shoot through shin high, the next would soar over the batter's head.
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