*Official* Ireland in Sri Lanka 2022/23

[G. S. Kohli]

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Wisden India

Ireland tour of Sri Lanka, 2023

Apr 16-20,2023
Sri Lanka vs Ireland
1st Test at Galle International Stadium, Galle
10:00 IST / 04:30 GMT

Apr 24-28, 2023

Sri Lanka vs Ireland
2nd Test at Galle International Stadium, Galle
10:00 IST / 04 30 GMT

 

[G. S. Kohli]

Ireland Test Tour of Sri Lanka: Andy Balbirnie (Capt), Curtis Campher, Murray Commins, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, James McCollum, Peter Moor (wk), Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker (wk), Ben White, Matthew Foster.

Peter Moor played 8 test for Zimbabwe as keeper best of 83 with 5 scores of 50 at 35.53 average
Now in Ireland team for test

 

[CricAddict]

This will most probably be a massacre looking at how the Irish are doing in Bangladesh, with Stirling also out of tests now. Prabath Jayasuriya could get a 20 wicket haul in the 2 tests. But I am hoping that the Irish do better. Batting depends on Balbirnie and Tector but I can't see how they will take 20 SL wickets with no good spinners.

 

[morgieb]

Is this Ireland's first two Test series?

They'll get hammered but I'm glad they're at least trying to play Test cricket. Honestly was worried for a period they'll never play Tests again.

 

[Nintendo]

Shame that ireland are the lower ranking test team that ended up doing this tour. They would be a ton more competitive in NZ/SA right now I think especially given the state of both of those teams, and I would be alot more interested to see how Zimbabwe or AFG would go in a series vs Sri lanka in Asia atm. If everyone is fit and available zimbabwe have a gun batting lineup with ballance, ervine, taylor etc and raza/burl for top 7 guys who can bowl some spin+a few handy spinners that can also hold a bat. Reckon they've be able to take a game off SL.

 

[Migara]

Shame that ireland are the lower ranking test team that ended up doing this tour. They would be a ton more competitive in NZ/SA right now I think especially given the state of both of those teams, and I would be alot more interested to see how Zimbabwe or AFG would go in a series vs Sri lanka in Asia atm. If everyone is fit and available zimbabwe have a gun batting lineup with ballance, ervine, taylor etc and raza/burl for top 7 guys who can bowl some spin+a few handy spinners that can also hold a bat. Reckon they've be able to take a game off SL.

ZIm and AFG will be obliterated in such case Make no mistakes. We may be crap in limited overs format, but our test stocks are commendable. These three teams will struggle to beat our A team on our home soil, especially given the strength of the spin bowling

 

[Nintendo]

ZIm and AFG will be obliterated in such case Make no mistakes. We may be crap in limited overs format, but our test stocks are commendable. These three teams will struggle to beat our A team on our home soil, especially given the strength of the spin bowling

Name me one Sri Lankan test spinner who's as good as motie not named Jayasuriya. Sri Lanka are good at home but there spin stocks are the worst they've been in ages in redball. Wandindu+theeshanka in white ball> red ball spinners pretty easy.

 

[CricAddict]

Name me one Sri Lankan test spinner who's as good as motie not named Jayasuriya. Sri Lanka are good at home but there spin stocks are the worst they've been in ages in redball. Wandindu+theeshanka in white ball> red ball spinners pretty easy.

Jayasuriya is relatively new. Ramesh Mendis and Jayawickrama have been very good for Srilanka till he came up and took their spot. Wanindu is not available for tests.

 

[Nintendo]

Jayasuriya is relatively new. Ramesh Mendis and Jayawickrama have been very good for Srilanka till he came up and took their spot. Wanindu is not available for tests.

Wandindu averages 100 in tests. I rate him but I'm not sold his style of bowling is suited to red ball.

 

[Migara]

Name me one Sri Lankan test spinner who's as good as motie not named Jayasuriya. Sri Lanka are good at home but there spin stocks are the worst they've been in ages in redball. Wandindu+theeshanka in white ball> red ball spinners pretty easy.

Last time I checked Gudakesh Motie has not played for ZIM, IRE or AFG,

 

[G. S. Kohli]

April 24 -28, 2nd test, paul Stirling will joins Ireland team but he is not available for 1st test (April 16-20) also at Galle.

 

[CricAddict]

April 24 -28, 2nd test, paul Stirling will joins Ireland team but he is not available for 1st test (April 16-20) also at Galle.

Not sure why the lazy ass can't join for the first test.

 

[Socerer 01]

Not sure why the lazy ass can't join for the first test.

because there was originally one test only and he wasn’t part of that or the Bangladeshi test either. since then they changed the two odis against Sri Lanka to a test and he agreed to join as originally planned for odis

calling him lazy is lazy when he’s likely to be the Irish cricketer with the heaviest workload. he has played 17 more cricket matches than Tector since April 2022 for context

 

[CricAddict]

because there was originally one test only and he wasn’t part of that or the Bangladeshi test either. since then they changed the two odis against Sri Lanka to a test and he agreed to join as originally planned for odis

calling him lazy is lazy when he’s likely to be the Irish cricketer with the heaviest workload. he has played 17 more cricket matches than Tector since April 2022 for context

That is a surprise. I am not sure how he played so many international matches more than Tector since I always see Tector turning up and doing well while he has been missing a few matches. Still, when your country is playing its first test in 4 years, he could have played these tests instead of those other matches.

 

[Socerer 01]

That is a surprise. I am not sure how he played so many international matches more than Tector since I always see Tector turning up and doing well while he has been missing a few matches. Still, when your country is playing its first test in 4 years, he could have played these tests instead of those other matches.

nah I wasn’t just counting international matches, I’ve counted all for the both of them as they both play in T20 leagues too

I just assume he doesn’t want to play the longer format. His last fc game was in 2019 in county cricket which isn’t a sign of someone that wants to be active in that format

 

[G. S. Kohli]

Fifties (but not hundreds) in each innings on Test debut

Harry Tector 50 in each innings on debut test for ireland vs Bangladesh at dhaka

Batsman	Inns 1	Inns 2	For	Opposition	Venue	Date
Bruce Mitchell	88	61*	South Africa	England	Edgbaston	15-Jun-29
Frank de Caires	80	70	West Indies	England	Kensington Oval	11-Jan-30
Jackie Grant	53*	71*	West Indies	Australia	Adelaide Oval	12-Dec-30
Dilawar Hussain	59	57	India	England	Eden Gardens	05-Jan-34
Merv Wallace	52	56	New Zealand	England	Lord's	26-Jun-37
Cyril Poole	55	69*	England	India	Eden Gardens	30-Dec-51
Noel Harford	93	64	New Zealand	Pakistan	Lahore	26-Oct-55
Peter Richardson	81	73	England	Australia	Trent Bridge	07-Jun-56
Graham Dowling	74	58	New Zealand	South Africa	Old Wanderers	26-Dec-61
Bryan Davis	54	58	West Indies	Australia	Queen’s Park Oval	26-Mar-65
Clive Lloyd	82	78*	West Indies	India	Brabourne	13-Dec-66
Sunil Gavaskar	65	67*	India	West Indies	Queen’s Park Oval	06-Mar-71
Tony Greig	57	62	England	Australia	Old Trafford	08-Jun-72
Peter Toohey	82	57	Australia	India	The Gabba	02-Dec-77
Rick Darling	65	56	Australia	India	Adelaide Oval	28-Jan-78
Sew Shivnarine	53	63	West Indies	Australia	Bourda	31-Mar-78
Bruce Laird	92	75	Australia	West Indies	The Gabba	01-Dec-79
Javed Omar	62	85*	Bangladesh	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	19-Apr-01
Kevin Pietersen	57	64*	England	Australia	Lord's	21-Jul-05
Tamim Iqbal	53	84	Bangladesh	New Zealand	Dunedin	04-Jan-08
Dinesh Chandimal	58	54	Sri Lanka	South Africa	Kingsmead	26-Dec-11
Moises Henriques	68	81*	Australia	India	Chepauk	22-Feb-13
Kusal Perera	55	70	Sri Lanka	India	SSC	28-Au

2003

Century in the first innings and fifty in the second on Test debut

Batsman	Inns 1	Inns 2	For	Opposition	Venue	Date
George Gunn	119	74	England	Australia	SCG	13-Dec-1907
Rodney Redmond	107	56	New Zealand	Pakistan	Eden Park	16-Feb-1973
Azhar Mahmood	128*	50*	Pakistan	South Africa	Rawalpindi	06-Oct-1997
Lou Vincent	104	54	New Zealand	Australia	WACA	30-Nov-2001
Scott Styris	107	69*	New Zealand	West Indies	St George's	28-Jun-2002
Andrew Strauss	112	83	England	New Zealand	Lord's	20-May-2004
Umar Akmal	129	75	Pakistan	New Zealand	Dunedin	24-Nov-2009

Fifty in the first innings and century in the second on Test debut

{Tucker 37 & 108 Who missed milestone of
50 & 100 on debut by 13 runs}

Batsman	Inns 1	Inns 2	For	Opposition	Venue	Date
KS Ranjitsinhji	62	154*	England	Australia	Old Trafford	16-Jul-1896
Herbie Collins	70	104	Australia	England	SCG	17-Dec-1920
Paul Gibb	93	106	England	South Africa	New Wanderers	24-Dec-1938
Gordon Greenidge	93	107	West Indies	India	Chinnaswamy	22-Nov-1974
Alastair Cook	60	104*	England	India	Nagpur	01-Mar-2006
Francois du Plessis	78	110*	South Africa	Australia	Adelaide Oval	22-Nov-2012

 

[G. S. Kohli]

Not sure why the lazy ass can't join for the first test.

Family Commitment

 

[G. S. Kohli]

Family Commitment

Lazy B*** Running between wicket Brilliant his 80 odd in 43 ball was great innings recently but test matches in Asia is whole new Experiences

 

[Niall]

nah I wasn’t just counting international matches, I’ve counted all for the both of them as they both play in T20 leagues too

I just assume he doesn’t want to play the longer format. His last fc game was in 2019 in county cricket which isn’t a sign of someone that wants to be active in that format

Yeah test cricket wouldn't really be the main format for the Irish lads. You can see with the lack of tests they don't have that much affection for it compared to the other formats.

Stirling has in the last few years lost out financially to play for Ireland, he nailed it in the initial hundred, but could only play a very small role in the second hundred series and in 2022 he had only a very short PSL contract as on both occasions he had to play for Ireland.

He may also have been hoping for an ipl call which is understandable as their is not one Irish player who wouldn't prioritise that over test cricket sadly.

 

[Immenso]

nah I wasn’t just counting international matches, I’ve counted all for the both of them as they both play in T20 leagues too

I just assume he doesn’t want to play the longer format. His last fc game was in 2019 in county cricket which isn’t a sign of someone that wants to be active in that format

Pretty much no Irishman has played a FC game since 2019, though. Except for a few Ireland 'A' games. Their domestic comp has been suspended for coming up 4 seasons. And they can't play in county cricket 'as locals' anymore since they were granted test status.

E.g.

Only Andy Balbirnie, Andy McBrine, Mark Adair and George Dockrell have played Tests before, and between them they have seven caps. Of those, Balbirnie is the only one other than Moor to have played more than one first-class game in the last three years. Six other members of the Test squad played an unofficial Test in Bangladesh in 2021 but the rest have not played any red-ball games since 2019 and, of those, Matthew Humphreys and Ben White have not played a first-class game at all.

From: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...-can-play-for-ireland-at-the-next-one-1365694