The
Zimbabwe cricket team toured Ireland in June and July 2019 to play three
One Day International
A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ...
s (ODIs) and three
Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. All the matches were played at the
Stormont Cricket Ground in
Belfast and the
Bready Cricket Club Ground in
Magheramason. Zimbabwe last toured Ireland in 2003.
Cricket Ireland had considered cancelling the tour, following poor ticket sales for international matches earlier in the season, but the
International Cricket Council (ICC) provided a US $500,000 bailout. The T20Is were scheduled to take place on the same days and venues as the
corresponding women's fixtures. However, in June 2019, the women's tour was cancelled 48 hours before it was due to take place, due to a funding issue from
Zimbabwe Cricket. With the cancellation of the women's matches, Cricket Ireland revised the start time of the first men's T20I fixture.
Ireland won the first two ODIs of the tour, taking an unassailable lead in the series, and their first series win at home against a
Full Member side. It was Ireland's first ODI series win at home since
beating Scotland in September 2014. Ireland won the third match by six wickets to win the series 3–0, their first clean-sweep in ODIs against a Full Member team. The T20I series was tied 1–1, after the first match was washed out.
Squads
Tour match
50-over match: Ireland A vs Zimbabwe
ODI series
1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
T20I series
1st T20I
2nd T20I
3rd T20I
References
External links
Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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