Ireland take on India in the first of five one-day games, also involving South Africa, taking place at Stormont in Belfast India choose to field and Shanthakumaran Sreesanth makes an early breakthrough, dismissing Kenneth Carroll for seven Wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik takes a spectacular catch to remove Carroll and leave Ireland 14-1 Dominick Joyce and Will Porterfield move the hosts onto 47 before the former is caught by Sourav Ganguly off Sreesanth Porterfield is cleaned up by Ajit Agarkar before Piyush Chawla bowls Gary Wilson to leave Ireland struggling on 75-4 Chawla also claims the wickets of Kevin O'Brien and Andrew White as Ireland continue to toil to 111-6 Niall O'Brien top scores with a well-crafted 52 but is caught by new-boy Rohit Sharma off Rudra Pratap Singh Kyle McCallan is bowled by RP Singh and captain Trent Johnston falls to Sreesanth for 34 as Ireland post 193 India take to the middle after a rain delay but quickly lose Sachin Tendulkar to Roger Whelan with the score on nine Gautam Gambhir joins Sourav Ganguly after the early wobble and steers India past 100 for no further loss The Ireland attack has few answers as Ganguly and Gambhir both ease to fifties by the 25-over stage It is left to former captain Ganguly to hit the winning runs as he helps guide India to a comprehensive nine-wicket win
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