AFG VS IRE - 3rd ODI, Afghanistan v Ireland in India, 2017

That's it from us today. With Ireland fighting back with a win, it keeps the series alive and kicking. The last two games should be exciting. Join us then. It's a goodbye from Sagar Chawla, Pradeep and Vinod!

Porterfield: We continued to do a lot of things right, which we did in the first two games as well. But we managed to get over the line today. All credit to the bowler to get them 3 down quickly. Stirling has been fantastic so far. Balbirnie has been in great touch and has been knocking on the doors to come in. We're happy with the win today and looking forward to the next game.

Stanikzai: It wasn't our game. Ireland played very well. We started our batting innings really poorly. On this wicket, 265 was good. Unfortunately, today we didn't field and bowl well. Ireland played him well today.

Stirling: That was the main thing - get the win under the belt. It was nice to get some runs but the win was the main thing. We would have taken 260 at the start of the game. Great knock from Balbirnie today. We addressed our issues from the previous games and played a lot better today.

Paul Stirling is Man of the Match

16:53 Local Time, 11:23 GMT, 16:53 IST: Ireland will derive a lot of satisfaction from this win. After repeated collapses from the middle order during run-chases on this tour, they have finally managed to find a fix. Stirling played wonderfully well for his 99 to set the chase up, but his dismissal at a crucial juncture gave the sense that the same script would unfold all over again. It wasn't to be. Balbirnie was having none of it. The key to Ireland's success lay in how they kept Rashid Khan at bay. The leg-spinner, who previously spun circles around the Ireland batsmen, went wicketless today. The use of the sweep against him, especially from Balbirnie, stood out. When not sweeping, they played him late and nudged him around for singles. Once his threat was negated, the pitch was good enough for the target to be achieved comfortably. With this, Ireland stay alive in the ODI series.

Dawlat Zadran to Wilson, FOUR, that's it. Ireland are on the board on this tour! An overpitched delivery outside off which Wilson drills to the extra-cover boundary for the win

Dawlat Zadran to Balbirnie, 1 run, just short of the fielder at cover. Balbirnie mistimes the full toss but does a good job of mistiming it

Dawlat Zadran to Balbirnie, no run, homing into the blockhole, Balbirnie digs it out

Just 5 needed in the last two overs.

Rashid Khan to Balbirnie, 1 run, shortish outside off, Balbirnie late-cuts to short third man

Rashid Khan to Balbirnie, FOUR, it's the sweep again. This very shot has put Rashid off his game completely today. Does the trick again as Balbirnie spanks it through mid-wicket and beats the diving fielder

Rashid Khan to Wilson, 1 run, cut away to sweeper cover

Rashid Khan to Wilson, no run, slips in the flipper outside off, Wilson under-edges his attempted cut between Shahzad's legs

Rashid Khan to Balbirnie, 1 run, dabs this through the cover region

Rashid Khan to Balbirnie, no run, beats the attempted sweep of Balbirnie. The ball turns away sharply from outside off and bounces over the bat

Rashid to finish off. Can he produce something sensational?

Dawlat Zadran to Wilson, FOUR, boundary to finish the over. Ireland are cruising home. Wilson picks the off-cutter and flogs it over mid-wicket. He didn't quite get it off the middle but gets enough of it to reach the boundary

Dawlat Zadran to Wilson, no run, Dawlat rolls his fingers across the ball and gets some spongy bounce from a back of a length. The ball bounces over Wilson's attempted dab and through to the keeper

Dawlat Zadran to Balbirnie, 1 run, back of a length off-cutter outside off, Balbirnie chops it to cover