Jonathan Trott attentively missed out cold on a century but nonetheless enhanced his growing one-day reputation as England amassed 327 on behalf of eight in their World Cup clash with Ireland in Bangalore.
Trott made a splendid run-a-ball 92, in the process amalgamation Viv Richards and Kevin Pietersen as the fastest player to get through to 1,000 one-day runs, in no more than 21 innings.
If Trott’s was the biggest contribution to an commanding figure up, Ian Bell’s 81 inedible 86 deliveries was the on the whole pleasant, while not a hint bettered Kevin Pietersen’s 50-ball 59 in provisos of explosiveness.
Trott and Bell shared a third-wicket locate of 167 in 26 overs, maintaining the momentum built up throughout Pietersen’s 79-run opening alliance with Andrew Strauss.
Strauss, fresh on the back of an ODI-best 158 three days in the past, managed single top-edged lure on behalf of six and two fours ahead of he was bowled behind his pads as he stepped across to manufacture a sweep adjacent to left-arm spinner George Dockrell.
Pietersen’s response to down his boss was to lure Mooney, whose moment above cost 15, inedible the front base on behalf of a mighty emphatic six above midwicket, but his attempt by the side of improvisation ended in failure as soon as he gloved a reserve-sweep inedible Stirling to wicketkeeper Niall O’Brien.
