Irish cricket 2026

Peter File · 03-01-2026 08:54PM #1

Tine for a new thread!.

The womens team start the year with T20 world cup qualifiers this month while the men play in their T20 world cup next month.

A test against New Zealand in Belfast is rumoured as well as a white ball series with India in Malahide.

KevIRL · 22-01-2026 10:31PM

Ireland women beat USA in T20 WC qualifier today, they are two wins from two now.

The mens u19 team beat Japan in their final ODI world cup group match

The mens team play the first of their T20 world cup warm up matches tomorrow morning at 6am v Italy

Strumms · 23-01-2026 02:45AM

Yeah 6am here so that’s a 10am start local time I think ?….wonder why it’s not an afternoon start, give people here and Italy a better opportunity to tune in.. not a weather thing as the temps in Dubai are far from extreme, highs just early 20’s… wonder did both team miss a trick there, start getting people at home involved and more interested before the tournament starts….

KevIRL · 23-01-2026 08:36AM

Ireland bowled after winning the toss and got Italy all out for 118

KevIRL · 23-01-2026 09:13AM

Ireland 30/2 after 5 overs in reply. Humphreys 4/18 the best of the bowlers

KevIRL · 23-01-2026 09:29AM

Tector and Tucker kicking on a bit. 62/2 after 9

KevIRL · 23-01-2026 09:56AM

97/4 after 15/ Tector made 41 and Tucker 34. Both a SR of 100

KevIRL · 23-01-2026 10:33AM

Made the target with 3 balls to spare, 119/7. Dont think its possible to read much more into that match than good to get a game under the beelt with a win

Pudsy33 · 23-01-2026 10:39AM

Where are these games televised?

KevIRL · 23-01-2026 10:47AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172364#Comment_124172364

Dont think they are. I was following score updates on CI website

KevIRL · 25-01-2026 01:11PM

Convincing win for Ireland in the second T20 v Italy today. Tector made 96 not out in a team total of 190/5. I

KevIRL · 26-01-2026 04:21PM

The womens team beat Namibia in a T20 qualifier earlier today.

The mens team have their final game of the 3 games series v Italy at the moment and are currently 127/6 after 17 overs. Stirling top scorer so far with 45

KevIRL · 26-01-2026 04:38PM

Ireland 154 all out with a few balls left in the final over

KevIRL · 26-01-2026 06:29PM

Italy win by 4 wickets. They needed 30 off the last 2 overs and got there with 3 balls to spare. Mark Adair went for 14 in the penultimate over then McCarthy was hit for three 6s in a row first 3 balls of the final over

fergiesfav · 26-01-2026 06:41PM

Fair play to the Italians. Irish cricket plumbs to new depths.......

KevIRL · 29-01-2026 03:31PM

Ireland Men continuing their T20 world cup prep today v UAE. Watch on link below

https://t.co/oDgmywtVYe

KevIRL · 29-01-2026 03:35PM

Stirling gets a couple of fortunate boundaries first two balls with edges, then gets out third ball

KevIRL · 29-01-2026 05:10PM

Ireland finish on 178/6

Ross Adair 39

Tucker 38

Calitz 26no

Campher 25

Dockrell 22no

KevIRL · 29-01-2026 06:13PM

UAE on 63/2 after 10 overs. Got off to a v good start but Irish bowlers doing a good job in the middle overs, so far anyway

KevIRL · 31-01-2026 11:00AM

Ireland win the 2 T20 v UAE today by 30 runs. Ireland made 170/7 in their innings with Campher finishing on 54 not out and Mark Adair on 34 not out

KevIRL · 04-02-2026 09:45AM

Irelands final warm up game ahead of the T20 World Cup is today v Pakistan, 11.30 start.

KevIRL · 04-02-2026 01:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124204373#Comment_124204373

Match abandoned due to rain

VillaMad · 17-02-2026 05:56PM

The test match against New Zealand should be announced soon. Seems to be set for May.

KevIRL · 18-02-2026 04:40PM

Ireland confirmed as an automatic qualifer for 2028 T20 world cup based on their ranking

VillaMad · 20-03-2026 03:13PM

A good bit of news over the past few weeks in Irish cricket.

Sarah Keane has officially started at the CEO of Cricket Ireland.

Paul Stirling has stepped down as captain of the T20 side. He will continue to the lead the ODI team.

Also fixtures for the summer have confirmed:
4-day test match against New Zealand in Stormont on the dates of May 27-30

Two T20 games will be held against India on June 26 and June 28, also in Stormont. Potentially a good chance to make a bit of money with the Indian diaspora surely filling up the grounds.

Five ODI's against Afghanistan. Two in Bready on August 5 and 7 and then three in Stormont on August 10, 12 and 15.

No fixtures scheduled down south and a mooted series with Bangladesh hasn't happened.

The women's fixtures are a T20 tri-series with the West Indies and Pakistan from May 28-June 3 in Clontarf ahead of the Women's T20 World Cup in England from June 12-July 5.

After that they have a 3 game ODI series with the West Indies in Bready on 10, 12 & 15 July. Finally they play 3 ODI games in England on September 5, 7 and 10.

fergiesfav · 21-03-2026 11:58AM

And none of it good news.

11 days cricket for mens national team, with no games in Dublin. Realistically 2 of the limited overs games will be rained off. The test match could very easily be over on day 3. Not exactly a summer to get excited about.

No other sporting body on the planet is as allergic to actually playing their sport than CI is. It's mind blowing how that they think this is an acceptable summer schedule. Even more baffling is why a full member would be so enthusiastic with signing deals with associate nations. Im all for helping out associates but by the sounds of the announcement, the associates are doing us the favours.

Full Membership worked our superbly. We play less cricket and are still reliant on games with associates

nice bit of green · 22-03-2026 09:43PM

I guess they lost money on the Dublin matches last season? Surely one of the Afghan matches could be held in Dublin?

Does the north have sufficient fans to sell out all those matches?

Peter File · 25-03-2026 12:25PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124333332#Comment_124333332

Can they not use Clontarf for at least one Afghan game?

They say that putting in the stands etc at Malahide is very expensive.

This Guardian article from last September is interesting

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/16/ireland-cricket-england-dublin-malahide-t20-series

Peter File · 30-03-2026 03:53PM

Tickets for all the summer games on sale today.

£80 for a 4 day pass for the New Zealand test is great value.

£55 to see India less so.

Gillespy · 04-05-2026 10:01AM

Jack Carson having a game to remember at the Oval against Surrey. Maiden first class hundred at number nine and then takes four wickets. Armagh born but wants to play for England. 25 years old I don't know is even on their radar at all. No Lions squads or anything. Be more than a handy option to have if he could be got on board.

VillaMad · 12-05-2026 01:06PM

New Zealand named their test squad last week to face Ireland and England over the next month.

Tom Latham (c), Tom Blundell (wk), Devon Conway, Zak Foulkes, Dean Foxcroft, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Daryl Mitchell, Henry Nicholls, Will O'Rourke, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Nathan Smith, Blair Tickner, Kane Williamson, Kristian Clarke, Michael Rae, Will Young, Ben Sears

The final four names in list are only for the Ireland test match as Henry, Foulkes, Jamieson, Ravindra and Phillips may all miss the Ireland game due to their IPL commitments.

Irish cricket 2026

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