Text commentary and in-play clips from the opening day of the historic Test match at Stormont in Belfast between Ireland and Zimbabwe.
It is the first Test match to be hosted in Northern Ireland with the game being played at Stormont in BelfastIreland captain Andrew Balbirnie continues to employ Mark Adair from the Dundonald End and the only run from his fifth over comes from a wide.Joylord Gumbie is looking accomplished at the crease as he continues to impress, dispatching the ball to the boundary twice in the space of three balls in McCarthy's fourth over. He reaches 26 by the end of the over.
A wonderful sight as Mark Adair sends down the opening delivery in the first Test in Northern Ireland.He appeals for lbw in the last of his six deliveries as the ball hits the pads of Joylord Gumbie but to no avail. A simple enough decision for the umpire.Just a single run for Joylord Gumbie in the opening over and Barry McCarthy will now bowl the second over.Mark Adair is going to open the bowling for Ireland from the Dundonald End, having opted to bowl into the wind.
“We want to give our guys a bit of freedom in how they play. We want our guys to play in a certain way, one that produces a result for us but also encourages people just to enjoy themselves and to want to strive to play at this level. "I dreamed as a 12-year-old in the back garden thinking you were going to play Test cricket and Stormont would have been the place," said a reflective Stirling on Tuesday.
Andrew White hails from Northern Ireland and he won 232 caps in a 14-year international career which ended in 2014.
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