Andrew Balbirnie

Squad Selection - International

Cricket Ireland: Squad named for historic Belfast test

Cricket Ireland - July 18, 2024

Photo Credit: Cricket Ireland Ireland Men’s 14-player squad for the Test Match against Zimbabwe at Stormont, Belfast next week has been announced as the Irish team seek a first-ever Test win on home soil. An historic Test win in Abu Dhabi...

Fixtures - Domestic

Cricket Ireland: Fixture to showcase the best Irish red-ball talent as domestic First-Class cricket returns

Cricket Ireland - July 6, 2024

Photo Credit: Press Eye Domestic first-class cricket will return to Ireland for the first time since 2019 when the Strikers and Raiders battle it out over four days in the “Emerald Challenge”. First-class, multi-day cricket was put on hold during the...

Governing Body News

Cricket Ireland announces men’s and women’s central contracts for 2024-25

Cricket Ireland - June 5, 2024

Photo Credit: Sam Navarro Cricket Ireland has today released its central playing contract lists for men and women with a total of 48 players now contracted, including a record number of full-time contracts handed to women. Player contracts were finalised and...

Tournament News

Cricket Ireland: Ireland Men go down fighting in Sri Lankan warm-up

Cricket Ireland - June 2, 2024

Photo Credit: Sam Navarro Ireland Men may have ultimately lost today’s warm-up encounter against Sri Lanka, but a competitive hit-out against an Asian side at a ground that may prove decisive in the upcoming Group Stage gave the Men in...

Squad Selection - International

Cricket Ireland Men’s squads announced for T20 World Cup, Pakistan and Tri-Series

Cricket Ireland - May 8, 2024

Photo Credit: Sportsfile Cricket Ireland has today named three men’s T20 International squads for the upcoming three-match series against Pakistan in Dublin, the Tri-Series with Netherlands and Scotland in Voorburg and the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup starting next month. The...

Discipline

Balbirnie fined for breaching ICC Code of Conduct

ICC - March 19, 2024

Photo Credit: ICC Ireland player Andrew Balbirnie has been fined 25 per cent of his match fee for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct during the second T20I against Afghanistan in Sharjah on Sunday. Balbirnie was found to...

Interviews

Cricket Ireland: Captain Andrew Balbirnie ready for Afghan Test as venue switch confirmed

Cricket Ireland - February 27, 2024

Photo Credit: Afghanistan Cricket Board/Cricket Ireland Ireland Men’s Test captain Andrew Balbirnie believes his side is ready for the Test Match against Afghanistan on Wednesday, despite the late switch of venue to Tolerance Oval. The Test was originally scheduled to be...

Squad Selection - International

Cricket Ireland: Ireland Men’s squad announced for the three-format Afghanistan series

Cricket Ireland - February 7, 2024

Photo Credit: Afghanistan Cricket Board Selectors have named squads for Ireland Men’s multi-format series against Afghanistan starting in late February in the UAE. The tour will see the two sides face off in their second Test Match – the first Test...

Governing Body News

Cricket Ireland: Paul Stirling appointed permanent white-ball captain; Andrew Balbirnie remains red-ball captain

Cricket Ireland - November 1, 2023

Photo Credit: Steve Bond Paul Stirling has today been announced as Ireland Men’s permanent white-ball captain effective immediately, while Andrew Balbirnie will continue as red-ball captain as national selectors look towards the next cycle with two T20 World Cups and...

Players

Haris Rauf, Mujeeb Ur Rahman advance in MRF Tyres ICC Men’s ODI Player Rankings

ICC - August 24, 2023

Photo Credit: Pakistan Cricket Board Pakistan fast bowler Haris Rauf has moved up to occupy a career-best 36th position in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s ODI Player Rankings after ripping through Afghanistan’s batting lineup in their opening fixture of a three-match series being...

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