Good afternoon from Dubai and good morning to everyone back in America. Peter Della Penna here at the ICC Global Cricket Academy where the Netherlands dispatched Denmark in the first match here. USA and Ireland are now warming up and the match is about 30 minutes away from starting. USA is 0-3 in Group B after losses to Uganda, Italy and Namibia while Ireland bounced back after a first day loss to Namibia to defeat Kenya and Italy to go to 2-1. This is the hottest day in Dubai so far, maybe not as hot as Abu Dhabi, but it's still over 90 degrees out here. Once again for those who missed it last night, Ryan Corns and Gowkaran Roopnarine are out of the tournament for USA with leg injuries. The word is that they are trying to bring in Quasen Alfred and Timothy Surujbally as replacements, but that is not 100% confirmed.

 Ireland have won the toss and will bat first. One change for USA. Elmore Hutchinson returns for Andy Mohammed.

USA XI: Nadkarni (captain), Taylor (wk), Baker, Mishra, Bhatti, Mustafa, Hutchinson, Khan, Shuja, Ghous, Rajp. 

Ireland XI: Porterfield (captain), Wilson (wk), Cusack, Dockrell, Johnston, Joyce, Mooney, O'Brien, Rankin, Stirling, White.

 The players are out on the field. Paul Stirling and William Porterfield to open for Ireland. Porterfield on strike, a left hander and Stirling off strike. Usman Shuja to open the bowling for USA from the Media End, right arm fast medium over the wicket. Taylor behind the stumps. No slips in place. Dot, full and driven to cover. Dot, short and cross batted to mid off. FOUR! Full and driven down the ground past mid off. OUT! OUT! Fullish length ball, Porterfield goes for a heave across the line and is beaten. Clean bowled. Porterfield out for 4, Shuja's first wicket of the tourney. Ireland 4/1 in 0.4 overs. Ed Joyce comes in, right hand. Wide, down leg. Dot. Dot, full outside off, misses a drive. Ireland 5/1 in 1.

 Muhammad Ghous to open from the other end, facing Stirling. FOUR! Full on the legs, swept past fine leg. Single, full on the legs again, swept but not timed as well this time. Two, full on the legs, clipped behind square. Dot, fullish outside off, goes to back foot drive and misses. Single, short on the legs, pulled to midwicket. Single. Ireland 14/1 in 2.

 Shuja to Stirling. Dot, full and driven to mid on. FOUR! Short on the stumps, pulled hard over midwicket. Single, full and pushed to mid off. Dot, short outside off, Joyce flashes at it and can't connect. Single, good length on the legs, clipped behind square. Dot, full and defended. Ireland 20/1 in 3.

 Ghous to Joyce. Dot, short outside off, cut to point. Single, full and pushed to mid on. Single, full and driven uppishly to long on. Five runs, full and nudged to point, Bhatti with a shy and misses badly, so bad that it's wide of the back up fielder and goes all the way to the boundary for overthrows. Dot, full and pushed to midwicket. Single, full and pushed to cover. Ireland 28/1 in 4.

 Elmore Hutchinson replaces Shuja from the Media End, left arm fast medium to Stirling. FOUR! Fullish length, Stirling smacks that with disdain down the ground. OUT! Full outside off, Stirling goes to hammer another and edges it through low to Taylor. Stirling out for 17. Ireland 32/2 in 4.2 overs. Alex Cusack in now. OUT! Bowled him! Full on the stumps, Cusack plays across and misses. Golden duck. IReland 34/3 in 4.3. Hutchinson On a hat  trick. Kevin O'Brien to face a hat trick ball. Single, full into the pads, inside edged to square leg. Dot, full and defended. Single, full and pushed to the off side. Ireland 34/3 in 5

 Adil Bhatti replaces Ghous, facing Joyce. FOUR! Short and wide, caressed behind point. Dot, fuller and defended to point. Dot, full again and driven to cover. Single, full and pushed to mid on. Wide, full and down leg. Dot, yorker dug out to Bhatti. Wide, slower bouncer down leg and Taylor fumbles it and it goes for five. Dot. Ireland 45/3 in 6.

 Hutchinson to Joyce. Single, full and pushed to mid on. Dot, full and defended. Dot, fullish outside off, no feet from O Brien and he misses a cut. Dot, full and driven to cover. Single, full outside off, driven to the sweeper. Two, full outside off, edged to third man. Ireland 49/3 in 7.

 Abhimanyu Rajp coming on to bowl, off spin to O Brien. Single, full outside off, driven to the sweeper. Rajp around the wicket to Joyce. Single, full on the legs, clipped to fine leg. FOUR! Full outside off, driven in the air but safely over cover. Single, full and driven to long off, overthrow creates a second. Dot. Single, full and driven to midwicket. Ireland 59/3 in 8.

 Asif Khan on for Hutchinson from the MEdia End, facing Joyce. Left Arm spin over the wicket. Single, full and pushed to mid on. Around the wicket now to O Brien. Single, full on the stumps, swept to fine leg. FOUR! Full on the legs, clipped fine. Dot. Dot. Dot. Ireland 65/3 in 9.

 Rajp to O Brien. Single, full toss hit to mid off, O Brien doesnt cash in. Dot. Single. Dot. Single. Single. Ireland 69/3 in 10. 150 is definitely within reach from here.

 Khan to Joyce. Dot, full outside off, goes for a back foot drive an dmisses. Single, full and swept to square leg. Single, full and cross batted to square leg. Dot, full, uses his feet but is beaten in flight and defends. Single, quicker ball pushed to mid on. Dot, short outside off, slapped to mid off. Ireland 73/3 in 11.

 Aditya Misha to bowl off spin to O Brien. Single, full outside off, hit to the sweeper. Two, full outside off, sliced past point. Single. Dot. SIX! Full toss, O Brien skips down and crushes a ball over long on to six. Single, full and driven to long off. Ireland 84/3 in 12.

 Khan to O Brien. Three, full and clipped to midwicket, dreadful fielding by USA on the boundary, should have been one, becomes three. Two, full and swept to deep square. Single, full and clipped to the on side. Single, short and pulled to mid on. FOUR! Full on the stumps, uses his feet and chips it over midwicket. Dot, full outside off, went straight on and beats the edge. Ireland 95/3 in 13.