Australia vs Ireland

Over-by-over report: The host nation faces a buoyant Ireland side in a must-win clash at the Gabba in Brisbane. Join James Wallace for updates.

3rd over: Australia 14-1 (Finch 5, Marsh 6) Mitch Marsh is the new man and he slots his first ball away on the swivel-pull for four. Play is underway in Brisbane at 6pm (7pm AEDT/8am GMT), I’ll be back with news of the teams and toss very shortly. They have to win today at the Gabba and win handsomely to give themselves the best chance of making it out alive. 8th over: Australia 60-1 (Finch 27, Marsh 28) Dockrell on for a twirl and then batters are happy to work him around and take the ones and twos. Jim here with the call, up with the lark in London, prime Colombian coffee beans well and truly on the go and giddy to see what this fascinating World Cup has in store next. A couple more runs are added but Warner is frustrated to miss out on a full-toss outside off-stump, he crunches it to Dockrell in the covers who pulls off a fine stop to save a certain boundary. Anyone else excited to see Josh Little get in and amongst the Aussie batting line up? Warner paddles Barry McCarthy straight to Adair on the ‘45*. Marsh is happy to swipe across the line and dispatches Hand for another maximum. The Aussie skipper then goes up and over to get four more. He’s on it straightaway, knocking three twos to keep the fielders and his captain busy. Sure enough the replay shows he under-edged the ball onto pad and the decision is reversed.

A curate's egg for the Irish. Bowled superbly in patches, but a few wild and woolly balls in there as well. Mitch Marsh: "Not your standard Gabba wicket, ...

Finch gives it the charge, swing and a miss! With rain having had a say, net run rate is going to be important for England, Ireland and Australia. That's the main dish of a 15-run over. He has bowled five dot balls in a row, the last of them an inside edge onto the pads from MM. Around the wicket to Warner now. Not bat on this one, and that's hit him low on the shin. They've got to win the match first... 16 runs off the over, that's their best of the innings. A curate's egg for the Irish. Irish cricket has come a long way in that they'll be maybe a tiny bit disappointed to be starting the second innings as second favourites. Leaps, gets it in his hand, but goes over the boundary. They run hard for two on the last ball.

Australia: 1 David Warner, 2 Aaron Finch (capt), 3 Mitchell Marsh, 4 Glenn Maxwell, 5 Marcus Stoinis, 6 Tim David, 7 Matthew Wade (wk), 8 Pat Cummins, 9 ...

[Lorcan Tucker](http://www.espncricinfo.com/player/lorcan-tucker-928057)and Gareth Delany got together for a sixth-wicket stand of 43. Finch was off the field from the seventh over of Ireland's reply, while Tim David and Stoinis also picked up niggles, and there will be concerns about how quickly they will heal up. The pair shared 60 runs for the fourth wicket before Ireland hauled them back at the death to keep them under 180.

PAUL NEWMAN AT THE GABBA: The unlikely figure of Ireland's Lorcan Tucker did England a World Cup favour in defeat when he ensured Australia's NRR did not ...

He punches the next delivery to cover for no runs, but gets another two off the penultimate ball of the over before Little ends his first over with a dot ball. McCarthy is back into the attack and starts off with a ball slightly wide of off stump, which Marsh looks to chop into the on-side. Adair comes back with a dot ball, but his next delivery is called a wide and Finch makes the most of the extra delivery, crunching it over cover for four runs. Marsh pushes one to long-off for a single, before Finch lifts one over long-off which is cut off before it can reach the boundary. A dot ball, two wides and a single follow from the next three balls before Maxwell slams Delany over the fence with the final delivery of an eventful over. Stoinis takes two off the next ball, before launching Delany into the stands for six off the next delivery, which is too full and straight into his wheelhouse. Tim David is the next man and he pulls a short delivery outside off towards long on for a single. Wade helps the next delivery to the boundary after going across the stumps and then takes two more off the final ball of the innings. Mark Adair is the next man in for Ireland and he takes two runs off the first delivery he faces, after a top-edge flies over Wade's head and lands safe. He pitches it short and Tector looks to pull it into the leg-side but ends up ballooning it up to Smith, who is substituting for David, who takes an easy catch. And it's more of the same with the penultimate ball of the over, as Tucker again lifts Starc over the infield and down to the rope for four more. Ireland appears to have found a modicum of tranquility after the bedlam of the first four overs, and Tucker hammers Starc for back-to-back boundaries.