Irish national cricket team against Afghanistan in the 2018/19 season

The Irish national cricket team tour against Afghanistan in the 2018/19 season will take place in India from February 21 to March 19, 2019 . The international cricket tour is part of the 2018/19 international cricket season and included a test , five ODIs and three Twenty20s . Afghanistan won the Test series 1-0 and the Twenty20 series 3-0, while the ODI series 2-2 ended in a draw.

prehistory

Ireland previously played a four-nation tournament in Oman , for Afghanistan it was the first tour of the season. The last meeting of the two teams took place in Ireland in the 2018 season .

Stages

Dehradun

Venue of the tour

The following stadium was chosen as the venue for the tour and announced on November 30, 2018.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium	Dehradun	25,000	1st - 3rd T20

Squad lists

Ireland named their squad on January 28, 2018.

test		ODI		Twenty20
Afghanistan	Ireland	Afghanistan	Ireland	Afghanistan	Ireland
Asghar Afghan ( K ) Javed Ahmadi Yamin Ahmadzai Ikram Ali Khil Sharafuddin Ashraf Nasir Jamal Ihsan Janat Rashid Khan Wafadar Momand Mohammad Nabi Waqar Salamkheil Rahmat Shah Hashmatullah Shahidi Mohammad Shahzad ( wk )	William Porterfield ( K ) Andrew Balbirnie James Cameron-Dow George Dockrell Andy McBrine Barry McCarthy James McCollum Tim Murtagh Kevin O'Brien Stuart Poynter Boyd Rankin Simi Singh Paul Stirling Stuart Thompson Lorcan Tucker	Asghar Afghan ( K ) Javed Ahmadi Aftab Alam Ikram Ali Khil Noor Ali Zadran Karim Janat Rashid Khan Zahir Khan Fareed Malik Mohammad Nabi Gulbadin Naib Rahmat Shah Hashmatullah Shahidi Mohammad Shahzad ( wk ) Samiullah Shenwari Sayed Shirzad Mujeeb Ur Rahman Dawlat Zadran Najibullah Zadran Shapoor Zadran Hazratullah Zazai	William Porterfield ( K ) Andrew Balbirnie James Cameron-Dow Peter Chase George Dockrell Andy McBrine Barry McCarthy James McCollum Tim Murtagh Kevin O'Brien Stuart Poynter Boyd Rankin Simi Singh Paul Stirling Stuart Thompson Lorcan Tucker	Asghar Afghan ( K ) Sharafuddin Ashraf Usman Ghani Karim Janat Rashid Khan Zahir Khan Fareed Malik Mohammad Nabi Ziaur Rahman Shafiqullah Shafaq Samiullah Shenwari Sayed Shirzad Najeeb Tarakai Mujeeb Ur Rahman Najibullah Zadran Hazratullah Zazai	Paul Stirling ( K ) Andrew Balbirnie Peter Chase George Dockrell Shane Getkate Josh Little Andy McBrine Kevin O'Brien Stuart Poynter Boyd Rankin James Shannon Simi Singh Harry Tector Stuart Thompson Lorcan Tucker

Twenty20 Internationals

First Twenty20 in Dehradun

February 21 scorecard	Dehradun	Ireland 132-6 (20)	-	Afghanistan 136-5 (19.2)
		Afghanistan wins with 5 wickets

Second Twenty20 in Dehradun

February 23 scorecard	Dehradun	Afghanistan 278-3 (20)	-	Ireland 194-6 (20)
		Afghanistan wins with 84 runs

Third Twenty20 in Dehradun

February 24th scorecard	Dehradun	Afghanistan 210-7 (20)	-	Ireland 178-8 (20)
		Afghanistan wins with 32 runs

One-day internationals

First ODI in Dehradun

February 28 scorecard	Dehradun	Ireland 161 (49.2)	-	Afghanistan 165-5 (41.5)
		Afghanistan wins with 5 wickets

Second ODI in Dehradun

March 2nd scorecard	Dehradun	Afghanistan 250-7 (48.3)	-	Ireland
		No result

Third ODI in Dehradun

March 5 scorecard	Dehradun	Afghanistan 256-8 (50)	-	Ireland 260-6 (49)
		Ireland wins with 4 wickets

Fourth ODI in Dehradun

March 8 scorecard	Dehradun	Afghanistan 223 (49.1)	-	Ireland 114 (35.3)
		Afghanistan wins with 109 runs

Fifth ODI in Dehradun

March 10 scorecard	Dehradun	Afghanistan 216-6 (50)	-	Ireland 219-5 (47.2)
		Ireland wins with 5 wickets

Test in Dehradun

March 15-19 Scorecard	Dehradun	Ireland 172 (60) & 288 (93)	-	Afghanistan 314 (106.3) & 149-3 (47.5)
		Afghanistan wins with 7 wickets

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ireland to face Afghanistan in first oversees test in March ( English ) BBC. November 30, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
2. ↑ Wilson out of Afghanistan T20s, Stirling to captain Ireland ( English ) Cricinfo. February 1, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019.