The

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toured

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to play

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

from 24 January to 9 February 2016. The tour consisted of a

first-class match First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

, three

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s (T20Is) and a tour match. The first-class match was part of the 2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup and the tour match was in preparation of the Intercontinental Cup match. Ireland won the T20I series 2–1.

Squads

Tour match

Two-day match: Queensland XI vs. Ireland

Intercontinental Cup

T20I series

1st T20I

2nd T20I

3rd T20I

References

External links

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