The Ireland Wolves cricket team toured

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in February and March 2021 to play an unofficial Test match (with First-class status), five unofficial One Day International matches (with

List A List A cricket is a classification of the Limited overs cricket, limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competit ...

status) and one unofficial Twenty20 International match (with

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status) against a Bangladesh Emerging team. The tour was confirmed a day after Ireland's tour of Zimbabwe was cancelled. The original tour schedule included two Twenty20 matches, but one was dropped from the itinerary on 13 March 2021. The first unofficial ODI match was abandoned after 30 overs, after Ruhan Pretorius tested positive for COVID-19. Ahead of the second ODI, the

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(BCB) confirmed that the match would take place, after all players returned a negative test. Pretorius' test was later found to be a

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, with him returning to the squad for the second match.

Squads

Originally,

George Dockrell George Henry Dockrell (born 22 July 1992) is an Irish cricketer, who plays international cricket for Ireland, having learned his cricket at Leinster Cricket Club, Dublin. Known as an all-rounder, Dockrell is a right-handed batsman and slow le ...

was set to captain the Ireland Wolves in the unofficial Test, and

Harry Tector Harry Tom Tector (born 6 December 1999) is an Irish professional cricketer. He was part of Ireland's squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He made his full international debut for the Ireland cricket team in September 2019. In January ...

would lead the side in the limited overs matches. However, the day before the squad departed for Bangladesh, it was announced that Dockrell had opted out of the tour. The same day, Ruhan Pretorius was added to the squad and Tector was confirmed as captain.

Unofficial First Class series

Only unofficial Test

Unofficial List A series

1st unofficial OD

2nd unofficial OD

3rd unofficial OD

4th unofficial OD

5th unofficial OD

Unofficial T20 series

Only unofficial T20

References

Notes

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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