Pakistan ‘just another game’, says Ireland’s Porterfield (AFP)

Ireland captain William Porterfield is confident his side has prepared well for Sunday’s must-win World Cup match against Pakistan at the Adelaide Oval, but insisted it was just another game. Both teams go into the winner-take-all game at par with three wins from five matches, but Porterfield said it did not help to take it as a special day out in the field. Debutants Ireland scored a memorable three-wicket win over Pakistan when the teams last met in the World Cup in 2007, but Porterfield said another victory this time will not be considered a surprise. “That was our first taste of a World Cup and it was our second game in the competition,” said the skipper who was part of that match at the Sabina Park in Jamaica.