Curtis Campher became the 3rd bowler to drawback 4 wickets successful 4 balls successful a Twenty20 international arsenic Ireland crushed the Netherlands by 7 wickets successful a World Cup Group A game.
Campher's outstanding feat helped him instrumentality 4-26 arsenic the Netherlands was bowled retired for 106 aft skipper Pieter Seelaar won the flip and elected to bat first.
Ireland past cruised to 3-107 successful 15.1 overs with Gareth Delany hitting 44 successful 29 deliveries and Paul Stirling making an unbeaten 30 disconnected 39 balls.
"First implicit didn't spell arsenic planned but Bal (captain Andy Balbirnie) kept religion with me," Campher said. "I didn't consciousness the best, coming backmost from injury, conscionable kept trying to bang the length."
Campher benefitted from the ICC's determination to present the Decision Review System for the archetypal clip successful a T20 World Cup, which allows teams to spell for tv referrals against 2 unsuccessful appeals successful each game.
The right-arm accelerated bowler Campher opted for a TV reappraisal erstwhile Colin Ackermann (11) went for a propulsion shot. The batsman was adjudged not retired by on-field Australian umpire Rod Tucker but replays suggested helium gloved the shot to wicketkeeper Neil Rock.
Campher past had Ryan 10 Doeschate lbw disconnected the adjacent transportation earlier Tucker again erred connected the hat-trick shot and Scott Edwards was ruled lbw done a TV referral.
Campher equaled Rashid Khan of Afghanistan and Sri Lankan Lasith Malinga's grounds of four-in-four erstwhile Roelof van der Merwe played the accelerated bowler backmost onto his stumps arsenic Netherlands slipped to 6-51 successful 9.5 overs.
Opening batsman Max O'Dowd scored a warring 51 and Seelaar made 21 earlier seamer Mark Adair (3-9) claimed 2 wickets successful the past over.
"One freak implicit changed the full crippled around," Seelaar said. "If we'd got to 150-160 it could person been a bully game, but if you suffer 4 successful 1 implicit you're ever struggling."
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Ireland and Sri Lanka are the 2 favourites expected to beforehand from the radical into the Super 12 stage.
The World Cup started connected Sunday erstwhile Scotland upset Bangladesh by six runs successful a Group B crippled and co-host Oman thumped debutant Papua New Guinea by 10 wickets.
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