Team India will tackle Ireland in a three-match T20 series scheduled to be performed in August this 12 months, Cricket Ireland mentioned in a press release on Friday. The series shall be performed at Malahide, the identical venue the place Hardik Pandya -led the boys in blue for a two-match series final 12 months.
However, with the ODI World Cup in sight, it isn’t recognized whether or not Hardik will play in the upcoming series. The three-match series is scheduled to be performed from August 18 to 23.
“Irish cricket fans will be able to enjoy watching the world’s number one T20 International side, India, when the Asian juggernauts return to Malahide for a three-match T20I series this August,” Cricket Ireland mentioned in its assertion.
India and Ireland confronted one another in the two-match T20I series in 2022. While the boys in blue gained the series 2-0, Ireland had been unfortunate not to file at the least one win.
“The return of the world’s top-ranked T20I side for a second consecutive year represents a vote of confidence in the talent and competitiveness of the current Irish side,” Ireland Cricket said in the media launch.
Ireland Men may even face Bangladesh in a three-match one-day worldwide series which will consequence in the ODI World Cup qualification. While Bangladesh have already certified for the marquee occasion, Ireland will mechanically get certified in the event that they register a 3-0 series. However, if the boys in inexperienced fail to accomplish that then they’ll lock horns with Zimbabwe in June for the World Cup Qualifier.
Warren Deutrom, Chief Executive of Cricket Ireland, mentioned:
“Summer 2023 shall be a feast of males’s cricket however will look very totally different from regular for followers. We can right now affirm India visiting Ireland for a second consecutive 12 months and ensure the World Cup Super League series against Bangladesh will proceed in early May. This is on prime of the already introduced Test match at Lord’s in June and the three-match ODI series in September against England.
“Making our summer season barely uncommon is that now we have not been in a position to have a look at organising any bilateral cricket between mid-June and mid-July given the potential of our participation in the 50-over Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier. It gained’t be till after the Bangladesh series that we are going to be taught whether or not we’re heading to the Qualifier in Zimbabwe.”
