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After 38 overs of fluctuating fortunes at Westvliet on Sunday, the Netherlands and Ireland turned on a denouement for the ages,...
They were almost twins. Young cricket nations with not much between them. But then the dynamic changes.
There would be tussles. The occasional cry of...
Rain may have curtailed the final T20I between Ireland and India, but not before claiming an unassailable 2-0 lead in Malahide.
After putting India in,...
During Ireland’s ill-fated Lord’s Test against England, Ireland’s then all-format captain Andrew Balbirnie outlined some goals for the summer.
First was to qualify for the...
According to the ICC ODI Rankings, that would be 13th place behind Scotland and Zimbabwe. Just above Nepal and the Netherlands, with Afghanistan way...
Squad
Andrew Balbirnie (c), Mark Adair, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Josh Little, Andy McBrine, Barry McCarthy, PJ Moor, Paul Stirling, Harry...
The Irish Interprovincial Competitions face an unusual new challenge when they return on Monday - that of mass player unavailability due to clashes with...
Hopes were high after a spirited finish to Ireland's only Test against Bangladesh a few weeks ago.
Lorcan Tucker's incredible test century on debut, and...
Trailing the game for nearly three quarters of it and looking within minutes of checking out the tournament entirely, Ireland somehow managed to turn...
The Netherlands Women produced a greatly improved performance in the final match of their ODI series against Ireland in Voorburg on Friday, although the...
Having emphasised their superiority with the ball by dismissing the Netherlands for 84 on Monday, Ireland’s Women followed this up with a dominant performance...
The transition between Ireland’s golden era and the new generation continues, with William Porterfield announcing his retirement, and Kevin O’Brien taking up an international...
Luke Georgeson and Cricket Ireland (CI) have announced the termination of Georgeson’s central contract by mutual consent. The news comes only two weeks after...
Pre-tournament favourites Ireland and United Arab Emirates (UAE) reached the finals of the first Global 2022 T20 World Cup Qualifier to secure their places...
A persistent Irish team performance was sufficient to see off a determined challenge by the Netherlands at Harare’s Sunrise Sports Club on Thursday and...
Namibia turned their dream into reality on Sharjah’s greyish, baked-mud-looking surface on Friday with a perfectly-paced chase of Ireland’s 125 for eight, winning by...
The opening matches in Group A followed remarkably similar trajectories, seven-wicket victories propelling Ireland and Sri Lanka into very strong positions on the group...
Taking eight wickets between them, Netherlands spinners Shariz Ahmad, Tazeem Ali and Udit Nashier gave their side a great start to the European Under-19...
Half-centuries from Paul Stirling and Andrew Balbirnie, preceded by four-wicket hauls for Josh Little and Craig Young, were more than enough to steer Ireland...
History as well as circumstances will mean that Ireland start as strong favourites when they take on the Netherlands at Utrecht’s Maarschalkerweerd ground in...
Zimbabwe's national cricket sides have been poised for lots of on field action in early 2021, though due to COVID-19, some international series have...
Rahmanullah Gurbaz, the Afghanistan opener, scripted himself a debut to remember. The 19-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman scored an enterprising knock of 127 as Afghanistan kickstarted their...
On a cloudy afternoon in Malahide last September, Leinster Lightning found themselves in murky waters at 11/2 early on chasing 240 against Northern Knights...
The Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) has announced the squad that will be playing in the four-match One-Day International (ODI) series against Ireland. With an...
The ICC and the Commonwealth Games Federation (CWF) have revealed the qualifying criteria for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The eight-team women’s tournament...
Both Jersey’s male and female international teams recently returned to action after the global standstill caused by the ongoing pandemic.
A Jersey women’s team, with...
Danish international player and high-performance coach Freddie Klokker has suggested the inclusion of a European XI in the Irish Interprovincial Championship, Ireland’s domestic first-class...
In a week when the global coronavirus outbreak worsened, with the World Health Organisation officially labelling it a pandemic, the main cricket action came...
Ireland's Kevin O'Brien will return to the Kathmandu Kings XI for Everest Premier League 2020.
With under three weeks until EPL4, the news came only...
The European Cricket League has announced that Cricket Ireland have become partners of their competition, with Belfast's CIYMS Cricket Club becoming Ireland's first entrant.
CIYMS...
Despite not proceeding beyond the Asia regional finals in qualification for this year's T20 World Cup after finishing behind Singapore and Qatar, Nepal is...
The ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019:
Our most recent podcast:
2 November:
Third Place Play-off: Ireland v Nambia (14h10) report;
FINAL: Netherlands v Papua New Guinea...
Firstly, here's the Group B table after Day 9:
GROUP BTEAM MWLPTNRRIreland*64281.591Oman*54181.388UAE53260.656Canada53260.433Jersey5234-0.039Hong Kong5234-0.383Nigeria5050-4.326
And here is the chat with Peter Della Penna between Abu Dhabi &...
After painfully falling short of qualifying for the ICC 2019 World Cup, Ireland will be staking their claim to be one of the 6 sides to qualify for the 2020 T20 World Cup.
Overnight it was announced that registrations for overseas players wanting to be drafted for the inaugural Euro T20 Slam are open.
Interested players must...
Thanks to the International Cricket Council’s
retrograde decision to reduce the number of the teams at the World Cup, the
12th edition of the showpiece event,...
The International Cricket Council has rolled out an 80-team rankings list for men's T20 Internationals, with 52 members making up the women's rankings.
Dubbing T20I...
