The

Pakistani women's cricket team The Pakistan women's national cricket team, also known as Green Shirts or Women in Green, represents Pakistan in international women's cricket. One of eight teams competing in the ICC Women's Championship (the highest level of international wom ...

toured Ireland in between 23 July and 2 August 2000 to play against the Irish women's national cricket team in a 5 match WODI series and in a one-off Test match, which was also the first ever test appearance for Ireland women's cricket team and also marked the first ever test match to have held in Ireland. Originally, the ODI series between the two teams were initially scheduled to be held as a 3 match series but later both Pakistan and Ireland agreed to play in further two WODI matches after the solitary test finished only within a space of 2 days. Ireland won the WODI series 4-0 and the only test match. Irish women's cricket team managed to win the WODI series after winning the first three ODI matches (3-0) just prior to the start of the only test match, with Ireland winning the 4th One Day International on the next day (on 1 August 2000) after the conclusion of the test match which ended on 31 July 2000 and the fifth being abandoned due to rain. The Irish team won the historical test match on its debut against Pakistan by an innings and 54 runs which was held in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

. This was also the only international test cricket match hosted by Ireland until 2018. Cricket ground Trinity College Dublin

18 years later after the first test appearance for the Ireland women's cricket team, their male counterparts, the Ireland men's national cricket team also made its test debut against Pakistan in 2018.

Isobel Joyce Isobel Mary Helen Cecilia Joyce (born 25 July 1983) is an Irish former cricketer. She played as a right-handed batter and left-arm medium pace bowler. She appeared in one Test match, 79 One Day Internationals and 55 Twenty20 Internationals for ...

who made her Women's test debut in 2000 against Pakistan for Irish women's team along with

Ed Joyce Edmund "Ed" Christopher Joyce (born 22 September 1978) is a former Irish cricketer who played for both the Ireland and England national cricket teams. After beginning his career with Middlesex, he moved to Sussex in 2009, before returning to Ir ...

who made his test debut in 2018 for Irish men's team became only the second brother-sister siblings to have played in test cricket following

Denise Emerson Denise Emerson (; born 13 May 1960) is an Australian former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter. She appeared in seven Test matches and 21 One Day Internationals for Australia between 1982 and 1987, including playing at the 1982 World ...

and

Terry Alderman Terence Michael Alderman (born 12 June 1956) is a former Australia cricket team, Australian international cricketer who played primarily as a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He began his first-class cricket career in 1974 with Western Australia i ...

of Australia. Ed Joyce and Isobel Joyce are also the only brother-sister siblings combination to have made their Test debuts when playing for their respective gender teams on the country's first ever test appearances.

WODI series

1st WODI

2nd WODI

3rd WODI

4th WODI

5th WODI

Test series

Only Test

References

Further reading