what so ever game the teams play here in New York, it’s definitely not the same one they have in the Indian Premier League. India smack Ireland by eight wickets on Wednesday in a match that included all 193 runs. This is just a little more in two innings than the average of teams in one during the IPL Season that has just ended. So after two games and four innings in New York, the Fans here are still waiting for a team to make it up to a hundred, let alone one of the individual players. So far, Rohit Sharma’s best score is 52, from 37 balls.

“When you watch T20 Cricket, you want to see runs and boundaries, don’t you? “The Irish coach Heinrich Malan complained afterwards. “When you’re playing a game, you want the best interface possible, and unfortunately what we’ve seen in the last few games hasn’t been up to scratch.”Indian batting coach Vikram Rathour agreed that “it was a tough wicket”.

Wicked would be another word for it, especially if bowlers as good as India’s Quicks use it. The ball curved and kicked and twitched and sputtered and seamed and stopped; one would strike through the shin, the next would soar above the head of the bat.

Although everything undoubtedly became a little easier during the bowling of the Irish medium-Pacers, the Indian batsmen still had a lot of trouble timing the ball.

Sharma missed as many as he scored – the statistics show that he only had half of his strikes under control. The main difference was that if he caught one, he carried it all the way across the border.

With all this talk about what a refreshing change it is when the bowlers are in power, it all feels a bit like throwback cricket.

The teams get the same Victorian results as they did here in 1844, when the batsmen scored a top score of 14 in the very first international match in the middle of Canada and the United States. Dress Virat Kohli and the rest in stovepipe hats and they might power for the games as re-enactment games.

Ireland had a grueling morning commute from Brooklyn and fought like she didn’t have time for her morning coffee. Arshdeep Singh dismissed both openers in his second over when Paul Stirling became the first of four fours caught by the top edge, and Andy Balbirnie was clean through, trying to see a ball bounce away from him.

Singh’s next Over lasted 10 balls, four of them wide. There was such a long delivery that Harry Tector’s right hand almost tore off his thumb. By the end of the powerplay, Ireland were 26 for two, eight of them as extras.

It got worse. India brought in Jasprit Bumrah, of all places, and he had Tector caught with a short ball that bounced off the glove and helmet.