DEHRADUN, India — Afghanistan notched a historic maiden win in only its second test match when it defeated Ireland by seven wickets in the one-off test ending Monday. “It was our dream to play test cricket and today we won a test match so I am very happy for Afghanistan and its people,” Afghanistan captain Asghar Afghan said. It was only the second test match for both countries since gaining test status in 2017. If we’d done how we’d done in the second innings then, it could have been a completely different game,” Porterfield said. “Credit to Afghanistan, they outplayed us … and once Afghanistan got past us in the first innings, it was always going to be hard,” Porterfield said.

Source: National Post March 18, 2019 07:07 UTC