IRELAND captain William Porterfield refused to be discouraged after his side’s eight-wicket defeat to defending champions India in the World Twenty20 last night.

Jun 11 2009 by Our Correspondent, Liverpool Daily Post

The Irish, surprise Super Eights qualifiers, were brought back to earth with a bump after being restricted to 112 for eight, thanks largely to figures of four for 19 from man-of-the-match Zaheer Khan.

“They landed the ball in the right areas and we nicked a couple, but made a few bad shots,” Porterfield said.

“It doesn’t help when you keep losing wickets off that but I thought we fought back really well at the end and it was fairly competitive.”