Ireland Confirms Two T20Is Against India At Home In June

Published - 01 Mar 2022, 10:37 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 01:05 AM

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Cricket Ireland, on March 1, confirmed a white-ball series against Team India in June, when they will visit the UK for the one Test and limited-overs series against England. Apart from the Men in Blue, Ireland also announced white-ball fixtures against South Africa and New Zealand.

Cricket Ireland (CI) announced a near-complete fixture list for the men’s international season on Tuesday, with the dates and venues for the Afghanistan series still unconfirmed. Warren Deutrom, CI’s chief executive, said that the schedule represented “a record amount of men’s cricket” for Ireland in a single summer, with three ODIs and 12 T20Is confirmed.

India will play two T20Is against Ireland on June 26 and 28, with both games hosted in Malahide. These matches will be played ahead of their tour to England, which starts with last summer’s rescheduled fifth Test at Edgbaston on July 1. India last played in Ireland in 2018, winning a two-match T20I series 2-0.

Ireland To Face New Zealand In 3 T20Is And 3 Odis, While South Africa Will Play 2 T20Is

Ireland’s tour of Zimbabwe, which was due to take place in April and include a Test match, has been postponed, while Bangladesh’s multi-format series in Ireland has also been pushed back by a year to 2023 in order to help CI deal with their “facility constraints”.

Apart from the Indian team, New Zealand will then play three ODIs and three T20Is between July 10 and 22, with the ODIs, held at Malahide and the T20I leg of the tour at Stormont. New Zealand is also due to play Scotland and Netherlands in 2022, though fixtures are yet to be confirmed.

Ireland will also face South Africa in Bristol on August 3 and 5 in a two-match T20I series. After this, Ireland will face off against Afghanistan in a five- T20I series with details yet to be confirmed. Afghanistan’s tour was initially scheduled to include a Test match and three ODIs but CI said those fixtures would be “rescheduled to a future date”.

Deutrom said that the volume of T20I fixtures would be important ahead of October’s T20 World Cup in Australia, for which Ireland qualified last week after finishing as runners-up in Qualifier A in Oman.