The Ireland Women’s Cricket team have started their eight-match, multi-format series against Zimbabwe this morning in Harare kicking off a busy year for the squad in a potential T20 World Cup year.
The two sides will play three One-Day Internationals, followed by five T20 Internationals, with all matches taking place at the Harare Sports Club.
The five T20 Internationals are part of the squad’s build-up to the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier, which also takes place in Zimbabwe in April.
The selectors named a 17-player squad last month, with Jane Maguire returning to the squad after missing the Scotland series in November. Once again, Ireland Women’s most-capped player Laura Delany will captain the squad.
Ireland and Zimbabwe have only played four ODIs previously, in Harare in 2021, with Ireland victorious in three of those matches. It was during the final game of that series that Amy Hunter became the youngest cricketer, male or female, to score a century in a One Day International.
Mary-Anne Musonda. The Zimbabwean captain spent the summer of 2023 in Ireland playing for the Scorchers in the Evoke Super Series, where she won the Evoke Super 20 Trophy, alongside the likes of Gaby Lewis, Aimee Maguire, and Sophie MacMahon. Musonda scored an unbeaten century in Zimbabwe’s only ODI win, and will be one to watch on the opposition side.
The sides last met in a T20 International, in the semi-final of the ICC Women’s T20 Qualifier in Abu Dhabi, which Ireland won by four runs.
Each of the games are being live streamed and you can find out the details on our seven day rolling guide to sporting action on TV and streaming.
Irish Women’s Cricket is sponsored by Certa.
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