The

Ireland cricket team The Ireland cricket team represents all of Ireland in international cricket. The Irish Cricket Union, operating under the brand Cricket Ireland is the sport's governing body in Ireland, and organises the international team. Ireland participa ...

toured India during March 2017 to play five

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s (ODIs), three

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(T20Is) and an

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match against

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. All the matches were played at the Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground,

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. Afghanistan won the T20I series 3–0 and the ODI series 3–2. Afghanistan also won the ICC Intercontinental Cup match, by an innings and 172 runs.

Squads

Ireland's

Josh Little Joshua Brian Little (born 1 November 1999) is an Irish cricketer. He made his international debut for the Ireland cricket team in September 2016. Early career Unlike many other Irish cricketers, he grew up as a pure homegrown local Irish crick ...

pulled out of the tour because of education commitments.

Peter Chase Peter Karl David Chase (born 9 October 1993) is an Irish cricketer who played for Durham County Cricket Club. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler who also bats right handed. In December 2018, he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a centr ...

was named as his replacement.

Boyd Rankin William Boyd Rankin (born 5 July 1984) is a Northern Irish former cricketer who played international cricket for Ireland, and briefly also played for England. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He is the brother of fellow cricketer David Ran ...

was ruled out of Ireland's T20I matches with a back injury. He was not fit to play in the ODI series, as he was still recovering from a lower back injury, with

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added to the squad as cover. Rankin was later ruled out of the ODI series, with Peter Chase named as cover for him.

T20I series

1st T20I

2nd T20I

3rd T20I

ODI series

1st ODI

2nd ODI

3rd ODI

4th ODI

5th ODI

Intercontinental Cup match

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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