Ireland vs England, 3rd T20I - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Young Bethell, in his first series as England captain, collects the trophy and joins his team-mates as they pose for the photographs. All smiles in the England camp. England 2 - 0 Ireland. A predictable scoreline with the second game getting washed out. A really good experience for the Irish side who got to lock horns against a strong England side. Their next assignment is in Bangladesh in November where they'll be playing 2 Tests followed by 3 T20Is. England, on the other hand, will be travelling to New Zealand in less than a month for 3 T20Is and 3 ODIs. On that note, it's time to bring the curtains down. It was fun bringing you this series. Until next time, goodbye.

Jacob Bethell: Couldn't have dreamt of it any better. That rained out game was a bit unfortunate. To come out on top in my first series (as captain) is a great feeling. We were nice and aggressive throughout the whole week. Today the conditions were slightly different to what we've seen in the first game. Just that nice aggressive nature. We wanted to carry on that momentum from South Africa and we managed to do that pretty well. It's cool that you get both ends of the spectrum. Playing in big grounds and then coming here and playing somewhere like Malahide was a great feeling, definitely something I would love to do again.

Philip Salt | Player of the Series: It's been a brilliant trip. To come and get the win today and win the series, that's the cherry on top. It's been a brilliant week for us. We've got a lot of cricket coming up, New Zealand next. (On Irish performance) Bags of talent, I know a lot of the guys fairly well. I knew it'd be a stiff competition especially in their own conditions. Really pleased to come away with a win. We've got a lot of players who have played a lot of cricket there (in the subcontinent). That's going to be a massive factor (in the T20 World Cup). For the time being, we get time off now and then next mission is New Zealand. Don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves.

Adil Rashid | Player of the Match: There was a bit of purchase there for the spinners. We bowled exceptionally well as a unit, we adapted well. Credit goes to Ireland as well to score 150-odd. Overall, we're quite pleased with how we went as a bowling group. Whichever ground you go to, you got to adapt to the conditions and situations. As a group, we did really well. We are all looking forward to that (2026 T20 World Cup), it's going to be a good one, it's going to be tough. Exciting time for England as a group. I take it a game at a time, I don't look too far ahead, things can change very quickly. I try to enjoy the moment and see where life takes me, I am enjoying the journey as well.

Paul Stirling: We got to take a lot of positives from this week. It's a shame we couldn't get all three games in. The groundstaff did really well to get us going. We'll take a lot from the first innings, 150-odd on the board, feel like that's going to be enough in trickier batting conditions. When you play against England, you don't exactly know what's a winning score. When you take the two first innings in isolation from the two games, there was a lot of good stuff there. Against a different team, you're in the game with both of the scores to be honest. We were probably about 15 short today but I am proud the way our lads performed and stayed in the game. We'll take each step as it comes. Next games against Bangladesh, we've got to look to improve. There's no surprise with how we've gone. In patches we have been good and in patches, we haven't. We have plenty of cricket coming up in the build up to the World Cup. They (Ireland fans) have been amazing, we are very lucky, we really appreciate the love and hopefully they support us all the way through the winter as well.

Curtis Campher: I think we should have adapted a little better, but happy enough (with this series.) Building blocks for the World Cup. We are process driven and there are good signs. It was just nice to contribute a little (was a good catch.) We have a nice little camp (before the next tournament). It's big for us. We are prepping up as a group.

17:33 Local Time, 16:33 GMT, 22:03 IST: Clinical performance from England. Their bowlers did a good job to restrict Ireland to 154. The hosts struggled for momentum on a slow-ish track and it was Delany's 29-ball 48* which took them to a respectable total. The run-chase was delayed due to rain but no overs were lost. England were never really under any sort of pressure while chasing. Campher took a blinder to dismiss Buttler for a duck. Jacob Bethell, at three, batted positively before holing out for 15. Cox came out all guns blazing and quickly overtook Salt as England scored 57 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in the powerplay. The duo forged a 57-run stand with Cox being the aggressor. Campher broke the partnership as Salt nicked off. While Cox raised his maiden T20I fifty off 31 deliveries, Banton played some delightful strokes and hit the winning runs as England wrapped up the proceedings with 17 balls to spare.

Young to Tom Banton, 1 run, very full on middle-leg, Banton clips it through midwicket. England win by 6 wickets and seal the series 2-0

Craig Young [2.0-0-20-1] is back into the attack

Delany to Tom Banton, 1 run, punched to sweeper cover

Delany to Tom Banton, FOUR, Delany bowls it wide on seeing the batter step out of the crease. Banton adjusts well and drives aerially wide of cover. Lovely shot

Delany to Tom Banton, no run, drifting in, Banton defends off the inside edge

Delany to Rehan Ahmed, 1 run, Delany attacks the stumps and Rehan Ahmed backs away to cut it to sweeper cover

Delany to Rehan Ahmed, FOUR, flatter ball bowled from well behind the crease, Rehan Ahmed goes back, waits and slams it over mid-on

Delany to Rehan Ahmed, no run, spinning away wide of off, left alone

Benjamin White to Rehan Ahmed, 1 run, shortish ball, pulled away to deep midwicket

Benjamin White to Tom Banton, 1 run, nudged towards square leg for a single

Benjamin White to Rehan Ahmed, 1 run, goes back, makes room and cuts to deep backward point

Benjamin White to Rehan Ahmed, no run, full and that's been pushed to short midwicket

Benjamin White to Rehan Ahmed, 2 runs, drifting in towards leg and Rehan Ahmed flicks it to deep midwicket