IRE vs SA, 2nd T20I Match Prediction: Who will win the 2nd T20I match between Ireland and South Africa?
The second T20 match between Ireland and South Africa will be played on 29 September. IRE vs SA (Photo Source: X/Twitter) IRE vs SA Match Preview: Ireland And South Africa The last match of the two-match T20 series between 29 September To Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi Will be played in. South Africa has taken a 1-0 lead in the series by winning the first match by 8 wickets. In the first T20 match, Ireland, batting first, scored 171 runs at the loss of 8 wickets. Curtis Campher had scored the highest score of 49 runs in 36 balls. South Africa’s Patrick Kruger took 4 wickets. South Africa chased the target with 14 balls remaining. Ryan Rickelton scored 76 runs in 48 balls and Reeza Hendricks scored 51 runs in 33 balls. IRE vs SA Match Details: Head to Head Records: match 06 ireland won 00 South Africa won 06 no result 00 tie 00 Pitch Report: The bowlers had to struggle in the second half of the first T20 match at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, but the pitch also helped the batsmen. The pitch will be seen helping the spinners more. The captain can choose to bat first after winning the toss. Probable Playing XIs: Ireland: Paul Stirling (captain), Ross Adair, Harry Tector, Curtis Campher, Neil Rock (wk), George Dockrell, Mark Adair, Fionn Hand, Matthew Humphries, Craig Young, Benjamin White South Africa: Ryan Rickelton (wk), Reeza Hendricks, Matthew Bretzke, Aiden Markram (c), Tristan Stubbs, Wiaan Mulder, Patrik Kruger, Bjorn Fortuyn, Nakaba Peter, Lizaad Williams, Otniel Bartman Probable Best Batter of the Match- In the last match, Reeza Hendricks had played an inning of 51 runs in 33 balls with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes. He can bat well in the second T20 also. Probable Best Bowler of the Match- Patrick Kruger took 4 wickets for 27 runs in 4 overs in the first T20 match. He can bowl brilliantly in the second T20 match also. IRE vs SA Today’s Match Prediction: Whichever team bats first will win the match. Scenario 1 Ireland won the toss and chose to bat first Powerplay Score- 40-50 Score of first innings- 160-180 Ireland won Scenario 2 South Africa won the toss and chose to bat Powerplay Score- 50-60 Score of first innings- 185-205 South Africa won
Ireland announced the team for the upcoming white ball series against South Africa, Paul Stirling will take command
A two-match T20 and three-match ODI series will be played between Ireland and South Africa. Ireland Cricket Team (Image Credit- Twitter X) The Ireland cricket team has announced the team for the upcoming white ball series against South Africa today, Thursday, 12 September. Let us tell you that Ireland’s limited over series against South Africa will start from 27 September in Abu Dhabi. Ireland will be seen playing a two-match T20 and a three-match ODI series against South Africa. This is going to be the Irish team’s first white ball series after the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024. The team has not played any competitive cricket since the end of the T20 World Cup. At the same time, the command of the Irish team against South Africa has once again been handed over to experienced opener Paul Stirling. It will be interesting to see how the Irish team is going to perform against South Africa under the captaincy of Stirling. While announcing the team, Ireland’s national selector Andrew White said – 2026 and 2027 are important years for our white ball cricket team. These years are the next T20 and 50 over World Cups respectively. This means that we are looking at this upcoming series against South Africa as the beginning of a new cricketing cycle. With this in mind, there are a number of selections and playing combinations that we will look at. However, several uncapped players were actively being considered for selection, such as Morgan Topping and Liam McCarthy, but they are currently struggling with injuries and have not been selected. Ireland team for T20 series against South Africa Paul Stirling (captain), Mark Adair, Andrew Balbirnie, Curtis Campher, George Dockrell, Stephen Doheny, Gavin Hoey, Fionn Hand, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphries, Andy McBrine, Neil Rock, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker and Craig Young. Ireland team for ODI series against South Africa Paul Stirling (captain), Mark Adair, Ross Adair, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Fionn Hand, Matthew Humphreys, Graham Hume, Neil Rock, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White and Craig Young.
This Indian cricketer is battling death due to liver failure, his wife is making a big sacrifice to save his life
Seeing no improvement in the health of Indian-origin Ireland cricketer Simi Singh, he was brought to India for better treatment. Ireland Cricketer Simranjit Singh (Source Simranjeet Singh aka Simi Singh, one of Ireland’s top all-rounders, is fighting for his life. Simi Singh was born in Mohali, India. The bad news is that he is seriously ill and is suffering from ‘acute liver failure’ at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram. Simi needs a liver transplant and his wife Agamdeep Kaur will be a liver donor for him. How did Simi Singh’s health deteriorate? For the last few months, Simi Singh was constantly complaining of fever, the exact cause of which could not be ascertained. Despite treatment in Dublin, there was no improvement in her health, after which she was brought to India for better treatment. Simi arrived in India at the end of June and began treatment at the PGI in Chandigarh. She was initially treated for TB, but it later became clear that she did not have TB. In the last week of August, Simi’s health deteriorated further and she developed severe jaundice. Doctors found that she had ‘liver failure’ and she was referred to Medanta Hospital in Gurugram. Simi Singh’s treatment and liver transplant procedure, wife will become the donor Doctors have approved Simi Singh’s wife Agamdeep Kaur to donate the liver, and Simi’s liver transplant will be done soon. Since Simi has AB+ blood group, they did not face any problem in finding a donor. Doctors are hopeful that this surgery will be successful and Simi will get a new life. Cricket Career of Simi Singh Simi was born in Mohali, Punjab and successfully represented Punjab at the Under-14 and Under-17 level, but couldn’t make it to the Under-19 level. He packed his bags for Ireland in 2005 to study hotel management. Little did Simi know that cricket would follow him to Ireland as well. In 2006, he joined Malahide Cricket Club in Dublin as a professional player. In 2020, Simi received a central contract from Cricket Ireland, the first full-time contract awarded by the association. 37-year-old Simi Singh has played 35 ODIs and 53 T20 Internationals for Ireland. He has taken 39 wickets in his ODI career, with his best performance being 5/10. He has also shown excellent batting and has also scored an ODI century against South Africa.
England Tour of Ireland: England will tour Ireland for a three-match ODI series in September 2025
This will be the first time the England Senior Men’s team will tour Ireland since 2019. England vs Ireland (Photo Source: Getty Images) The Ireland Cricket Board is going to host England for a three-match ODI series in September 2025. Let us tell you, this will be the first time since 2019 that the England Senior Men’s team will tour Ireland. So far 15 ODI matches have been played between England and Ireland, in which Ireland won twice. Whereas, the English team won 11 times and twice the matches ended without a result. The Ireland Cricket Board is delighted to host the England Men’s team for three ODIs next year. Board President Warren Deutrom said, We are delighted to confirm this series, this will indeed be the first three-match ODI series between the two teams to be played in Ireland and the first match between the two teams in Ireland since May 2019. We will announce our summer 2025 programme in due course, we have agreed to release these dates ahead of the rest of the dates. Because interest for this series is the highest and we wanted to work with the ECB to finalise the dates within the busy schedule of 2025. Tickets will go on sale in early 2025 and we expect a large number of fans to attend. IRE vs ENG 2025, ODI Series Schedule 17 September 2025: Ireland Men’s vs England Men’s (1st ODI) 19 September 2025: Ireland Men vs England Men (2nd ODI) 21 September 2025: Ireland Men vs England Men (3rd ODI) England women’s cricket team will tour Ireland next month Let us tell you, the England women’s cricket team is going to tour Ireland in September next month for a three-match ODI and T20 series. The three ODI matches will be played on 7, 9 and 11 September. At the same time, three T20 matches will be played on 14, 16 and 17 September. The three ODI matches are part of the 2022-2025 ICC Women’s Championship, from which the top-5 teams along with host India will qualify for the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025.
Gaby Lewis created history by scoring a century against Sri Lanka, becoming the first Irish female cricketer to do so
Lewis became the 11th batsman to score two or more centuries in the shortest format of the game. Gaby Lewis. (Photo Source: The Ireland women’s team defeated Sri Lanka by seven runs in the second T20 match on Tuesday. With this, Ireland leveled the 2-match T20 series 1-1. In this match, Ireland’s Gaby Lewis achieved a major feat by scoring a century. She has joined the list of players who have scored two or more centuries in T20 International. She is the first Irish female cricketer to achieve this record. Talking about the match, Ireland batted first and scored 173 runs in 20 overs losing three wickets, in reply, Sri Lanka’s team could only score 166 runs in 20 overs losing seven wickets. This was Gabby Lewis’s second T20 International century. Earlier, she had scored an unbeaten 105 against Germany. According to the ICC, this right-handed player is now one of the 11 female players to score two or more centuries in the T20 format. Gaby Lewis played a historic innings against Sri Lanka Gabby Lewis hit 17 fours and two sixes in her century against Sri Lanka. She shared a 119-run partnership with Orla Prendergast (38) to help Ireland post a big score. According to the ICC, this was Ireland’s first win over Sri Lanka in women’s cricket and helped the European team level the T20 series 1-1, after which the three-match ODI series will start in Belfast on Friday. Talking about the players who have scored the most centuries in women’s T20Is, Tanzania’s Fatuma Kibasu and Sri Lanka captain Chamari Atapattu both have scored three T20 centuries each, while Lewis and West Indies pair Deandra Dottin-Hayley Matthews have scored two centuries in the format. She joins England’s Danni Wyatt, Australia’s Meg Lanning and Beth Mooney, Uganda’s Proscovia Alako, Romania’s Rebecca Blake and UAE’s Isha Ojha in scoring two centuries each.
IRE-W vs SL-W: There was a great craze for women’s cricket in Ireland, thousands of people reached to watch the match
IRE-W vs SL-W: Sri Lanka women’s team is currently on a tour of Ireland. Two T20 and three ODI matches will be played between the two teams on this tour. The first match of the T20 series was played in Dublin on 11 August, where the Ireland women’s team had to face defeat. However, more than the win or loss, the thing that attracted the most attention in this match was the craze among Irish fans for women’s cricket. More than 1100 people reached the ground to watch the first T20 match played between the two women’s teams. The presence of fans made this match more memorable for both the teams. None of the players present in both the teams expected that so many people would come to watch this match. Talking about the match, the Irish team put up a strong fight in the match but eventually succumbed to the higher ranked opposition. However, the home team has expressed its ability to work with head coach Ed Joyce ahead of the second match of the series. There were encouraging glimpses. One positive for the team was that five of the top six Irish batsmen scored in double digits and looked comfortable at the crease. On the negative side, Gabby Lewis (39 off 33 balls), Orla Prendergast (29 off 27 balls) and Laura Delany (25 off 21 balls) failed to convert their starts into big scores. In the end, Rebecca Stokely’s cameo (21* off 16) helped the Irish post a respectable total of 145-6. After winning the toss and deciding to bowl first, the Sri Lankan team performed well in the first bowling. Then when it was time to chase the runs, Harshitha Samarawickrama scored 86* runs in 45 balls to give her team the win. The Sri Lankan team won this match by 7 wickets. The second match of the series will be played on the same ground on Tuesday.
ZIM vs IRE: This happened for the first time in Test cricket, Andy McBrine scored 5 runs by running on one ball, watch the video
Ireland won the only Test match against Zimbabwe by 4 wickets. Ireland vs Zimbabwe, Only Test (Image Credit- Twitter The only Test match between Zimbabwe and Ireland (Ireland vs Zimbabwe) was played at the Civil Service Cricket Club Belfast. Let us tell you that in this match, host Ireland won against Zimbabwe by 4 wickets. So, in this match, a very strange incident was seen in the second innings of Ireland. When Ireland came out to chase the target of 158 runs given by Zimbabwe, the team’s score was 75/5 after 18 overs on the fourth day of the match. But in the next over, on a ball bowled by Richard Ngarwa, Andy McBrine, who was on strike, played a shot towards off south. The ball was moving fast towards the boundary line, but during this time Tendui Chatara stops the ball before it becomes a four and sends it back inside the field, but due to the momentum of his body, he goes beyond the leg hoarding on the boundary line. Meanwhile, the batsman on strike gets a chance to run for more runs, and Andy McBrien runs on this ball and takes 5 runs. Let us tell you that this is the first time in Test cricket that a player has scored 5 runs on a ball by hitting a single shot. Watch the amazing video of this incident McBrine hits Ngarava for 5⃣! Yep, you read that right… ▪️ Ireland 86-5 (19 overs)▪️ Zimbabwe 197 (71 overs)▪️ Ireland 250 (58.3 overs)▪️ Zimbabwe 210 (71.3 overs) WATCH (Ireland/UK): https://t.co/DeHsISzoPwWATCH (Rest of the world): https://t.co/HZ1cGTFoHvSCORE:… pic.twitter.com/0Rr6GRZoa7 — Cricket Ireland (@cricketireland) July 28, 2024 On the other hand, if we tell you about this match, Ireland has won by 4 wickets. Zimbabwe scored 210 runs in the first innings, in response to which Ireland scored 250 runs in the first innings. Then Zimbabwe scored 197 runs in the second innings and Ireland got a target of 158 runs to win, which the Irish team achieved by losing 6 wickets in 36.1 overs. Andy McBrien (55*) was awarded the Player of the Match award (POTM) for his brilliant half-century in the second innings of the Irish team.