Ireland piled on the misery for Zimbabwe by sending the tourists crashing to a humiliating ten-wicket defeat in a one-day match in Belfast.

After being thrashed in both their Tests against England, the Zimbabweans had been hoping for a morale-boosting win over the ICC associate members.

Instead they found themselves put in to bat and very quickly reduced to 3-12 as both opener Douglas Marillier and Richard Sims went for ducks.

Dion Ebrahim (52) and Stuart Matsikinyeri (50) restored some respectability to the score and Zimbabwe managed to scrape together a total of 180 before being bowled out in the 50th and final over.

It always looked a very beatable target and Ireland got there in just 33.4 overs with Jason Molins helping himself to an unbeaten 107 and his Australian opening partner Jeremy Bray finishing on 67.

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