A difficult tournament continued for Ireland as they lost by seven wickets to the West Indies in the third Plate Championship quarter-final match at the Temenggong Ibrahim Teachers Training Institute ground on Monday.

The Irish lost the toss and were sent in to bat by West Indies’ stand-in captain Steven Jacobs with the Caribbean opening bowlers not taking long to make an impact.
 
Ireland stuttered to 32-3 but then a 44-run partnership between James Hall (45) and James Shannon (20) threatened to get it to a competitive total. But once Veerasammy Permaul had made the breakthrough, Jacobs ran through the middle order, ending with figures of 3-18 off 10 overs as Ireland limped to 156-9 in 50 overs.
 
The run chase took just 23.1 overs with Kieran Powell (50), Kyle Corbin (33), Jacobs (40 not out) and Darren Bravo (30 not out) making sure the job was done without a significant hiccup.