England vs Ireland, 1st ODI - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Sunday will be another opportunity for Ireland to showcase their potential which they failed to put on display today. We shall join you day after tomorrow then. Hop tabs to catch some IPL action. That will get your weekend going. Bye

Adil Rashid (Man of the Match): At the moment I feel confident. That (consistency) has come from hard work in the field, knowing my field and what to do on a given day. I look to bowl my variations and be confident about that.

Morgan: Pretty pleased. Very good performance. In the first 10 overs, bowled very few bad balls. Losing the toss was not a bad thing. Any first game back is important to get some overs under belt (talking about Mark Wood). There were expectations from him. It is great to see him (Adil Rashid) bowl that way. He had some tough winter bowling against some top teams. Not taking anything away from Ireland, they have beaten us before and they have the ability to beat any team in the world.

Porterfield: We could not put a total on the board, could not get the partnerships going. There was a bit of nibble but spinners did most of the damage. I think it is more of a mental thing (to prepare againstleg-spin). It is going to be great day (Lord's ODI). We had a lot of support today as well.

14:44 Local Time, 13:44 GMT, 19:14 IST: An easy outing for the Englishmen who were at the top of the game. They have ticked most boxes today, starting with Adil Rashid who returned his maiden fifer in ODIs. Chasing was never going to be a headache and Hales's fifty made it a cakewalk. Root continues to churn up runs. Remained not-out on 49 and Bairstow provided finishing touches. Ireland have a lot to improve on. They needed to bring their A-game out against the mighty neighbours but could not really kick off after a decent start in the first five overs.

Chase to Bairstow, 1 run, flicks through mid-wicket and earns a single. England win by 7 wickets

Chase to Bairstow, no run, fuller ball. Bairstow wants to drive, gets an inside edge onto the pads. Root denies the single

Chase to Bairstow, no run, thuds on the pad of Bairstow even as he tries to flick across the line. Going down

Chase to Root, 1 run, short ball. Root pulls to deep square leg for a single. Moves to 49 and most likely that will be his score in this match

Chase to Root, no run, short of a good length ball. Root defends off the back foot

Chase to Bairstow, 1 run, short ball, pulled to fine leg for a single

S Thompson to Root, FOUR, this is a classical shot. Root stays behind the line of the ball and punches past cover-point

S Thompson to Bairstow, 1 run, swipes across the line but finds the man at deep mid-wicket for a single

S Thompson to Bairstow, no ball, shortish ball around off. Bairstow keeps it out towards point. But Thompson has overstepped giving the former a free-hit up next

S Thompson to Bairstow, FOUR, now Bairstow joins the party. Gets a full ball to join and he devours with a straight drive past the bowler

S Thompson to Root, 3 runs, Root punches this back of a length delivery. Extra cover is not going to give up, chases it down near the fence

S Thompson to Root, FOUR, drifting on the pads and Root does not miss out; tickels it to the fine leg fence

S Thompson to Bairstow, 1 run, full ball. Bairstow thuds the drive towards cover-point, the good bit is that they run a single off it

Stuart Thompson [2.0-0-12-0] is back into the attack

Chase to Bairstow, 1 run, bouncer now. Bairstow pulls to deep backward square leg for a single