Pakistan vs Ireland LIVE Score Updates, T20 World Cup 2024: Pakistan Play For Pride Against Ireland

Pakistan vs Ireland LIVE Updates, T20 World Cup 2024: With both sides out of contention for the Super 8 stage of the 2024 T20 World Cup, Pakistan and Ireland's only motivation for their final group game will be to earn back some pride. Pakistan will go to four points with a win, after a dismal tournament that has seen calls from many former Pakistan cricketers to change the side and captain. Ireland will be aiming for their first win in the tournament, having lost to India and Canada and having had their match against USA washed out due to rain. (Live Scorecard | Points Table)

Ireland on the other hand have been pretty sub-par with their overall play and the batting just hasn't clicked at all, especially their experienced opening pair of skipper Paul Stirling and former skipper Andy Balbirnie. They looked in fine form coming into the World Cup with a few wins on the trot and that included inflicting defeat upon Pakistan as well. The Irish will look to use those wins against Pakistan to find some motivation and put on a much better all-round display than they have thus far. But will they be able to do so? Or will Pakistan get the win and send Ireland back home without a single win to their name? We shall find out in due course. Toss and team news in a bit.

Pakistan had their fate sealed when the game between Ireland and USA was washed out and USA got the one point they needed to qualify alongside India from this group. Things could have been completely different for Pakistan and they have only themselves to blame for those two losses against USA and India early on. They did manage to beat Canada but the team seems to be lacking cohesiveness and the batting has been all over the place. Skipper, Babar Azam and his deputy