Ireland has named five squads for the historical tours to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. There might be 10 debutants in the red ball matches as the coach suggests. Under-19 World Cup hero Matthew Humphries graduates into the senior setup, selected in all five squads.
Ireland coach speaks on the tours
“We’re not going to try and play like anyone else. We’ll play our way and that is the key message within our environment at the moment. We want our guys to go out there. And figure out how we best play red-ball cricket – it’s not that we need to block or play essentially T20 cricket.”
On Stirling, he said that
“This year, with a big white ball focus in terms of a pinnacle event in the World Cup, we got to that sort of agreement that up until the World Cup, he will only play white-ball cricket for us. And in the same breath. He will get a little bit of a balance from a wellbeing point of view with him missing some of that Test cricket, which again, it creates some opportunities for some of the lads that we want to see in there.”
Fixtures of the important Tours
Bangladesh Tour
ODI Series
18 March: Bangladesh Men v Ireland Men – 1st ODI (SICS, Sylhet)
20 March: Bangladesh Men v Ireland Men – 2nd ODI (SICS, Sylhet)
23 March: Bangladesh Men v Ireland Men – 3rd ODI (SICS, Sylhet)
T20I Series
27 March: Bangladesh Men v Ireland Men – 1st T20I (ZACS, Chattogram)
29 March: Bangladesh Men v Ireland Men – 2nd T20I (ZACS, Chattogram)
31 March: Bangladesh Men v Ireland Men – 3rd T20I (ZACS, Chattogram)
Test Match
4-8 April: Bangladesh Men v Ireland Men – Test Match (SBNCS, Dhaka)
Sri Lanka Tour
Test Match
18-22 April: Sri Lanka Men v Ireland Men – Test Match (Galle)
ODI Series
26 April: Sri Lanka Men v Ireland Men – 1st ODI (Colombo)
23 April: Sri Lanka Men v Ireland Men – 2nd ODI (Colombo
Squad for Bangladesh ODI series
Andrew Balbirnie (C), Mark Adair, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Stephen Doheny, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Josh Little, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Paul Stirling, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White.
Squad for Bangladesh T20I series
Andrew Balbirnie (C), Mark Adair, Ross Adair, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Barry McCarthy, Conor Olphert, Paul Stirling, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White, Craig Young.
Squad for Bangladesh Test Match
Andrew Balbirnie (C), Mark Adair, Curtis Campher, Murray Commins, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, James McCollum, PJ Moor, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White.
Ireland squad for Sri Lanka Test Match
Andrew Balbirnie (C), Curtis Campher, Murray Commins, George Dockrell, Matthew Foster, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, James McCollum, PJ Moor, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White.
Ireland squad for Sri Lanka ODI series
Paul Stirling (C), Curtis Campher, Murray Commins, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Stephen Doheny, Matthew Foster, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Andrew McBrine, Conor Olphert, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Craig Young.
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