The

Zimbabwe cricket team The Zimbabwe national cricket team, also known as the Chevrons, represents Zimbabwe in men's international cricket and is overseen by Zimbabwe Cricket (formerly known as the Zimbabwe Cricket Union). Zimbabwe has been a Full Member of the Intern ...

toured Ireland in August and September 2021 to play three

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(ODI) and five

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(T20I) matches. The ODI series formed part of the inaugural 2020–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League.

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confirmed the fixtures in February 2021. Originally, three T20I matches were scheduled to be played, but two more T20I matches were added in April 2021, after planned matches against Pakistan were cancelled. However, on 22 July 2021, Cricket Ireland announced that the series would need to be rescheduled due to quarantine requirements needed for the visiting team. The aim was to reschedule the matches for August-September 2021.

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requested government clearance to travel to Ireland, with 19 August 2021 proposed as the date to depart for the tour. On 5 August 2021, Cricket Ireland confirmed the new itinerary for the tour, with the series starting on 27 August 2021. Zimbabwe won the first T20I match by three runs. However, Ireland went on to win the next three matches, winning the series with a match to spare. Zimbabwe won the fifth T20I match by five runs, with Ireland winning the series 3–2. Zimbabwe won the first ODI by 38 runs. In the second ODI, Ireland scored 282/8 before the match was washed out, ending in a

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. The day before the third ODI of the series, Zimbabwe's

Brendan Taylor Brendan Ross Murray Taylor (born 6 February 1986) is a Zimbabwean former international cricketer and a former Zimbabwean captain, who played all formats of the game. Taylor is a right-handed batsman but is also an off spinner. In 2015, former Z ...

announced that he would retire from international cricket following the match. Ireland went on to win the match by seven wickets, with the series drawn 1–1.

Squads

Zimbabwe did not name individual squads for the ODI and T20I matches, opting instead to name a combined squad of 18 players for the tour.

Curtis Campher Curtis Campher (born 20 April 1999) is a South African-born Irish cricketer who plays for the Ireland cricket team and Munster Reds. Campher made his international debut for Ireland in June 2020. In October 2021, Campher became the first bowler f ...

was ruled out of Ireland's ODI squad after suffering an injury in the first T20I match.

Shane Getkate Shane Charles Getkate (born 2 October 1991) is a South African-born Irish cricketer. Getkate was born with Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome, which caused him to collapse on field during an under-19 game in June 2011. In January 2020, he was one ...

was named as Campher's replacement for Ireland's ODI matches.

Tour match

T20I series

1st T20I

2nd T20I

3rd T20I

4th T20I

5th T20I

ODI series

1st ODI

2nd ODI

3rd ODI

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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