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Curtis Campher blasted 72 not retired from lone 32 balls| ICC Men's T20 World Cup, Group B |
| Scotland 176-5 (20 overs): Jones 86 (55); Campher 2-9 |
| Ireland 180-4 (19 overs): Campher 72* (32), Dockrell 39* (27) |
| Ireland won by six wickets |
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Ireland kept live their hopes of progressing astatine the Men's T20 World Cup with a stunning comeback to bushed Scotland by six wickets successful Hobart.
After the Scots were lifted to 176-5 by 86 from Michael Jones, Ireland struggled to 61-4 successful the 10th over.
But Curtis Campher and George Dockrell shared a blistering basal of 119 to get Ireland location with an implicit to spare.
The effect means some teams volition person a accidental of reaching the main gully successful Friday's last first-round games.
Regardless of the effect betwixt Zimbabwe and West Indies aboriginal connected Wednesday, Scotland and Ireland volition person a changeable astatine progressing if they tin bushed Zimbabwe and the Windies respectively.
All-round Campher keeps Ireland alive
Ireland were second-best for overmuch of the time successful Hobart and were staring astatine a 2nd successive aboriginal exit from the World Cup aft a disappointing run a twelvemonth ago.
Campher was underused successful an indifferent Irish bowling show - helium took 2-9 from 2 overs with his clever medium-pace - but went connected to marque a telling publication with the bat.
After Michael Leask had Harry Tector caught astatine heavy mid-wicket, Ireland looked floored, lone for Campher to harvester with Dockrell successful a whirlwind counter-attack.
Scoring astatine much than 12 an over, the fifth-wicket brace took the crippled distant from Scotland successful the blink of an eye.
Campher launched 2 sixes implicit heavy mid-wicket, Dockrell 1 of his own, and they hared betwixt the wickets to tally the Scots ragged.
The 16th over, bowled by experienced seamer Josh Davey, was taken for 17 runs, and Ireland followed that by getting 11 disconnected the adjacent from wily spinner Mark Watt, becoming favourites for the archetypal time.
Campher's 50 came from lone 25 balls and erstwhile helium deed back-to-back fours disconnected Davey successful the 19th over, the crippled was up.
He ended unbeaten connected 72 from 32 balls, Dockrell connected 39 from 27, arsenic Ireland completed their highest palmy pursuit astatine a T20 World Cup.
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