Cricket Ireland: All you need to know – Ireland v Sri Lanka

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The Asia Cup champions hit Irish shores this week

Ireland Women are back in action this month for their first of two home white-ball series – the first set of fixtures being against the newly-crowned Asia Cup champions, Sri Lanka.

The series is a five-match, multi-format series to be played between 11 and 20 August 2024. This is the first time the two sides have met in a competitive bilateral series, having met only seven times previous.

FIXTURES

T20Is:

• 11 August 2024: Ireland vs Sri Lanka – 1^st T20I (Pembroke; start 4pm)
• 13 August 2024: Ireland vs Sri Lanka – 2^nd T20I (Pembroke; start 4pm)

ODIs:

• 16 August 2024: Ireland vs Sri Lanka – 1^st ODI (Stormont; start 10.45am)
• 18 August 2024: Ireland vs Sri Lanka – 2^nd ODI (Stormont; start 10.45am)
• 20 August 2024: Ireland vs Sri Lanka – 3^rd ODI (Stormont; start 10.45am)

SQUADS

The Ireland Women’s squads are:

T20I Squad:

• Laura Delany (c) (Leinster), Ava Canning (Leinster), Christina Coulter Reilly (Clontarf), Alana Dalzell (Bready), Amy Hunter (Instonians/Malahide), Arlene Kelly (Malahide), Gaby Lewis (Phoenix), Jane Maguire (The Hills), Cara Murray (Saintfield), Leah Paul (Merron), Orla Prendergast (Pembroke), Una Raymond-Hoey (Ringwood), Freya Sargent (Clontarf), Rebecca Stokell (Merrion).

ODI Squad:

• Laura Delany (c) (Leinster), Ava Canning (Leinster), Alana Dalzell (Bready), Amy Hunter (Instonians/Malahide), Arlene Kelly (Malahide), Gaby Lewis (Phoenix), Joanna Loughran (Leinster), Aimee Maguire (The Hills), Leah Paul (Merron), Orla Prendergast (Pembroke), Una Raymond-Hoey (Ringwood), Freya Sargent (Clontarf), Rebecca Stokell (Merrion), Alice Tector (Phoenix).

The touring Sri Lanka Women squad is:

• Chamari Athapaththu (c)*, Vishmi Gunaratne, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Hasini Perera, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshi Silva, Anushka Sanjeewani, Kawya Kavindi, Udeshika Prabodhani, Achini Kulasuriya, Sugandika Kumari, Sachini Nisansala, Inoshi Fernando, Shashini Gimhani, Ama Kanchana, Kaushini Nuthyangana.

  * Athapaththu will not feature in the T20Is due to her commitments in The Hundred

FOLLOW THE SERIES

Attend

• Tickets are available: www.cricketireland.ie/tickets

Watch

• A livestream of the series will be available in Ireland/UK via Cricket Ireland Live Youtube Channel: see here
• Details on the rest of the world will be available shortly

Follow scores

• Scorecards will be available from: https://cricketireland.ie/matches/

POINTS OF INTEREST

• The three one-day internationals are part of the ICC Women’s Championship (see more)
• Sri Lanka beat India recently to win the 2024 Asia Cup
• Ireland Women has never beaten Sri Lanka Women in a competitive match
• Ireland’s Una Raymond-Hoey returns to the Irish squad after spending the last five years in Australia
• Ireland has called up Christina Coulter Reilly and Alice Tector for the first time

This is the first-ever bilateral series between the two sides – Ireland and Sri Lanka first played against each other competitively in 2000, with Sri Lanka having won six times and one no result:

• 8 Feb 2017: Ireland v Sri Lanka (ODI; ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier) – Sri Lanka won by 146 runs
• 20 Mar 2016: Sri Lanka v Ireland (T20I; ICC Women’s T20 World Cup) – Sri Lanka won by 14 runs
• 27 Jul 2013: Ireland v Sri Lanka (T20I; ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier) – Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
• 28 Apr 2011: Sri Lanka v Ireland (ODI; Women’s Quadrangular Series) – No result
• 14 Oct 2010: Ireland v Sri Lanka (T20I; ICC Women’s Cricket T20 Challenge) – Sri Lanka won by 11 runs
• 12 Oct 2010: Ireland v Sri Lanka (ODI; ICC Women’s Cricket Challenge) – Sri Lanka won by 2 wickets
• 5 December 2000: Ireland v Sri Lanka (ODI; Women’s Cricket World Cup) – Sri Lanka won by 10 runs

The two sides met in a warm-up match for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in 2018, which Ireland won by 8 wickets.

Cricket Ireland

Cricket Ireland, officially known as The Irish Cricket Union Company Limited by Guarantee, is the governing body for cricket on the island of Ireland. It oversees the national men’s and women’s teams and organizes the Inter-Provincial Series, Super 3s, and All-Ireland club competitions. Ireland achieved Test status for women in 2000 and for men in 2017 when it became a Full Member of the ICC.