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 particip ...

toured Zimbabwe in January 2023 to play three One Day International (ODI) and three

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(T20I) matches. Zimbabwe won the T20I series 2–1. The ODI series was drawn 1–1 after the final match ended with no result due to rain.

Squads

Before the start of the series, Ross Adair replaced

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in Ireland's T20I squad, as Tucker was released to play in the

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(ILT20).

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and

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were also missing from Ireland's T20I squad due to their participation in the ILT20 and the 2022–23 SA20, respectively, while Sikander Raza was unavailable for Zimbabwe due to the ILT20. Zimbabwe included former

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player Gary Ballance in their T20I squad. Ireland captain

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suffered a concussion during the first ODI, after scoring his eighth century in the format, which ruled him out of the remainder of the series. Murray Commins replaced Balbirnie in Ireland's squad for the last two ODIs, and

took over as captain.

T20I series

1st T20I

2nd T20I

3rd T20I

ODI series

1st ODI

2nd ODI

3rd ODI

Notes

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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