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England
v Ireland⁠

Result

England won by 48 runs

England
266/7 (50 ov)
Ireland
218 (48.1 ov)
Date
Friday 30 March 2007 · England in 2007
Venue
Providence Stadium, Guyana

Last checked 24 October 2026

Scorecard

England v Ireland ODI scorecard

England won the toss and chose to bat

England · Innings 266/7 (50 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Ed Joyce b WB Rankin 1 5 0 0 20.0
Michael Vaughan c NJ O'Brien b WB Rankin 6 13 1 0 46.2
Ian Bell c NJ O'Brien b KJ O'Brien 31 74 2 0 41.9
Kevin Pietersen c WTS Porterfield b WK McCallan 48 47 5 0 102.1
Paul Collingwood run out (AR White/DT Johnston) 90 82 8 3 109.8
Andrew Flintoff b DT Johnston 43 62 4 0 69.4
Paul Nixon c EJG Morgan b AC Botha 19 15 1 1 126.7
Ravi Bopara not out 10* 5 1 0 200.0
Sajid Mahmood not out 0* 0 0 0 –
Extras (b 0, lb 2, w 13, nb 3) 18
Total 50 overs 266/7

Did not bat: JM Anderson, MS Panesar

Fall of wickets: 1-6 (EC Joyce, 1.1 ov), 2-23 (MP Vaughan, 5.2 ov), 3-89 (IR Bell, 21.2 ov), 4-113 (KP Pietersen, 26.3 ov), 5-194 (A Flintoff, 43.3 ov), 6-245 (PA Nixon, 48.2 ov), 7-258 (PD Collingwood, 49.3 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
D Langford-Smith 7 0 38 0 5.43 3 3
WB Rankin 7 1 28 2 4.00 4 0
DT Johnston 10 0 70 1 7.00 0 0
AC Botha 10 1 56 1 5.60 0 0
KJ O'Brien 4 0 26 1 6.50 2 0
WK McCallan 10 0 38 1 3.80 2 0
AR White 2 0 8 0 4.00 0 0

Ireland · Innings 218 all out (48.1 overs)

Ireland · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
WTS Porterfield c IR Bell b A Flintoff 31 68 1 0 45.6
JP Bray c RS Bopara b JM Anderson 0 1 0 0 0.0
EJG Morgan run out (SI Mahmood) 2 7 0 0 28.6
NJ O'Brien st PA Nixon b MP Vaughan 63 88 4 0 71.6
AC Botha c A Flintoff b MS Panesar 18 39 1 0 46.2
KJ O'Brien lbw b MS Panesar 12 19 1 0 63.2
DT Johnston b A Flintoff 27 21 1 2 128.6
AR White c PA Nixon b PD Collingwood 38 35 4 0 108.6
WK McCallan b A Flintoff 5 6 0 0 83.3
D Langford-Smith lbw b A Flintoff 1 2 0 0 50.0
WB Rankin not out 4* 8 0 0 50.0
Extras (b 0, lb 3, w 9, nb 5) 17
Total 48.1 overs 218

Fall of wickets: 1-6 (JP Bray, 0.5 ov), 2-11 (EJG Morgan, 3.4 ov), 3-72 (WTS Porterfield, 18.5 ov), 4-116 (AC Botha, 29.5 ov), 5-139 (KJ O'Brien, 35.6 ov), 6-139 (NJ O'Brien, 36.2 ov), 7-197 (DT Johnston, 44.5 ov), 8-209 (AR White, 45.5 ov), 9-210 (D Langford-Smith, 46.1 ov), 10-218 (WK McCallan, 48.1 ov)

Ireland · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
James Anderson 7 1 35 1 5.00 4 0
Sajid Mahmood 8 2 34 0 4.25 1 1
Andrew Flintoff 8.1 1 43 4 5.27 0 4
Paul Collingwood 6 0 38 1 6.33 1 0
Monty Panesar 10 1 31 2 3.10 0 0
Michael Vaughan 9 0 34 1 3.78 1 0

Player of the match: Paul Collingwood · Umpires: BR Doctrove, SJA Taufel · TV umpire: DJ Harper · Match referee: RS Madugalle. Scorecard from ball-by-ball data by Cricsheet (opens in a new tab), used under the Open Data Commons Attribution License (opens in a new tab). Names as Cricsheet writes them; England players link to their profiles.

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