Zimbabwean national cricket team in Ireland for the 2019 season

The tour of the Zimbabwean Cricket Team in Ireland in the season 2019 took place from 1 to 13 July of 2019. The international cricket tour was part of the 2019 international cricket season and included three ODIs and three Twenty20s . Ireland won the ODI series 3–0, while the Twenty20 series ended in a 1–1 draw.

prehistory

Zimbabwe previously played a tour in the Netherlands , Ireland a tour against Afghanistan . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in Zimbabwe in the 2015/16 season . The tour could only take place after the International Cricket Council provided funding to the Irish Association of Cricket Ireland after it was hit by an online fraud.

Stages

Belfast Magheramason

Venues of the tournament

The following stadiums were selected for the tournament.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Stormont	Belfast	7,000	2nd & 3rd ODI; 1. T20
Bready Cricket Club Ground	Magheramason	3,000	1. ODI; 2nd & 3rd T20

Squad lists

Zimbabwe named its squad on June 13, 2019. Ireland named its squad on June 27, 2019.

ODI		Twenty20
Ireland	Zimbabwe	Ireland	Zimbabwe
William Porterfield ( K ) Mark Adair Andrew Balbirnie Shane Getkate Tyrone Kane Andy McBrine James McCollum Tim Murtagh Kevin O'Brien Boyd Rankin Simi Singh Paul Stirling Lorcan Tucker ( wk ) Gary Wilson ( wk )	Hamilton Masakadza ( K ) Ryan Burl Tendai Chatara Elton Chigumbura Craig Ervine Kyle Jarvis Tinashe Kamunhukamwe Solomon Mire Peter Moor Christopher Mpofu Richmond Mutumbami ( wk ) Ainsley Ndlovu Sikandar Raza Brendan Taylor Donald Tiripano Sean Williams	Gary Wilson ( K , wk ) Mark Adair Andrew Balbirnie Gareth Delany George Dockrell Shane Getkate Tyrone Kane Joshua Little Kevin O'Brien Boyd Rankin Paul Stirling Greg Thompson Lorcan Tucker ( wk ) Craig Young	Hamilton Masakadza ( K ) Ryan Burl Tendai Chatara Elton Chigumbura Craig Ervine Kyle Jarvis Tinashe Kamunhukamwe Solomon Mire Peter Moor Christopher Mpofu Richmond Mutumbami ( wk ) Ainsley Ndlovu Sikandar Raza Brendan Taylor Donald Tiripano Sean Williams

Tour match

June 29 scorecard	Eglinton	Ireland A 283-9 (50)	-	Zimbabwe 256 (47.2)
		Ireland A wins with 27 runs

One-day internationals

First ODI in Magheramason

July 1st scorecard	Magheramason	Zimbabwe 254-9 (50)	-	Ireland 258-6 (48.3)
		Ireland wins with 4 wickets

Second ODI in Magheramason

July 4th scorecard	Belfast	Ireland 242-9 (50)	-	Zimbabwe 237-9 (50)
		Ireland wins with 5 runs

Third ODI in Magheramason

July 7th scorecard	Belfast	Zimbabwe 190 (46.5)	-	Ireland 191-4 (41.2)
		Ireland wins with 6 wickets

Twenty20 Internationals

First Twenty20 in Belfast

July 10th scorecard	Belfast	Ireland	-	Zimbabwe
		Called off

Second Twenty20 in Magheramason

July 12th scorecard	Magheramason	Zimbabwe 132-8 (13/13)	-	Ireland 134-1 (10.5 / 13)
		Ireland wins with 9 wickets ( D / L method )

Third Twenty20 in Magheramason

July 13th scorecard	Magheramason	Ireland 171-9 (20)	-	Zimbabwe 172-2 (16.4)
		Zimbabwe wins with 8 wickets

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ian Callender: ICC comes to rescue of Zimbabwe's Irish tour ( English ) Belfast Telegraph. June 3, 2019. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
2. ↑ Brendan Taylor, Hamilton Masakadza back in Zimbabwe squad ( English ) Cricinfo. June 13, 2019. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
3. ↑ Dockrell left out of Ireland ODI squad, uncapped Delany in T20I squad ( English ) Cricinfo. June 27, 2019. Retrieved July 17, 2019.