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Little makes a big impact but Ben saves the blushes

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The Cricket Paper Team
10 May 2019

By Chris Stocks

BEN FOAKES ensured England got their summer off to a winning start after Ireland’s Josh Little upstaged Jofra Archer and threatened to inflict an embarrassing loss on Eoin Morgan’s World Cup favourites.
Little’s haul of 4-45 on his ODI debut – the 19-year-old left-arm seamer removing James Vince, Morgan, Dawid Malan and David Willey – left an under-strength England reeling on 101-6 in the 27th over of their pursuit of 199 for victory.
Yet Foakes, another ODI debutant, struck an unbeaten 61 during a 98-run stand with Tom Curran to get his team...