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Ireland Women are back in action this month for their first of two home white-ball series – the first set of fixtures being against the newly-crowned Asia Cup champions, Sri Lanka.

The series is a five-match, multi-format series to be played between 11 and 20 August 2024. This is the first time the two sides have met in a competitive bilateral series, having met only seven times previous.

This series is proudly sponsored by Certa, a leading fuel and oil provider in Ireland.

FOLLOW THE SERIES

Attend

• Tickets are available: www.cricketireland.ie/tickets

Watch

• A livestream of the series will be available in Ireland/UK via Cricket Ireland Live Youtube Channel: see here
• Sri Lanka: via Dialog
• India: via Fancode
• Pakistan: via Tapmad
• Rest of the world: via Cricket Ireland Live Youtube Channel: see here

Follow scores

• Scorecards will be available from: https://cricketireland.ie/matches/

FIXTURES

T20Is:

• 11 August 2024: Ireland vs Sri Lanka – 1^st T20I (Pembroke; start 4pm)
• 13 August 2024: Ireland vs Sri Lanka – 2^nd T20I (Pembroke; start 4pm)

ODIs:

• 16 August 2024: Ireland vs Sri Lanka – 1^st ODI (Stormont; start 10.45am)
• 18 August 2024: Ireland vs Sri Lanka – 2^nd ODI (Stormont; start 10.45am)
• 20 August 2024: Ireland vs Sri Lanka – 3^rd ODI (Stormont; start 10.45am)

SQUADS

The Ireland Women’s squads are:

T20I Squad:

• Laura Delany (c) (Leinster), Ava Canning (Leinster), Christina Coulter Reilly (Clontarf), Alana Dalzell (Bready), Amy Hunter (Instonians/Malahide), Arlene Kelly (Malahide), Gaby Lewis (Phoenix), Jane Maguire (The Hills), Cara Murray (Saintfield), Leah Paul (Merron), Orla Prendergast (Pembroke), Una Raymond-Hoey (Ringwood), Freya Sargent (Clontarf), Rebecca Stokell (Merrion).

ODI Squad:

• Laura Delany (c) (Leinster), Ava Canning (Leinster), Alana Dalzell (Bready), Amy Hunter (Instonians/Malahide), Arlene Kelly (Malahide), Gaby Lewis (Phoenix), Joanna Loughran (Leinster), Aimee Maguire (The Hills), Leah Paul (Merron), Orla Prendergast (Pembroke), Una Raymond-Hoey (Ringwood), Freya Sargent (Clontarf), Rebecca Stokell (Merrion), Alice Tector (Phoenix).

The touring Sri Lanka Women squad is:

• Chamari Athapaththu (c)*, Vishmi Gunaratne, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Hasini Perera, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshi Silva, Anushka Sanjeewani, Kawya Kavindi, Udeshika Prabodhani, Achini Kulasuriya, Sugandika Kumari, Sachini Nisansala, Inoshi Fernando, Shashini Gimhani, Ama Kanchana, Kaushini Nuthyangana.
  
  * Athapaththu will not feature in the T20Is due to her commitments in The Hundred

POINTS OF INTEREST

• The three one-day internationals are part of the ICC Women’s Championship (see more)
• Sri Lanka beat India recently to win the 2024 Asia Cup
• Ireland Women has never beaten Sri Lanka Women in a competitive match
• Ireland’s Una Raymond-Hoey returns to the Irish squad after spending the last five years in Australia
• Ireland has called up Christina Coulter Reilly and Alice Tector for the first time

This is the first-ever bilateral series between the two sides – Ireland and Sri Lanka first played against each other competitively in 2000, with Sri Lanka having won six times and one no result:

• 8 Feb 2017: Ireland v Sri Lanka (ODI; ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier) – Sri Lanka won by 146 runs
• 20 Mar 2016: Sri Lanka v Ireland (T20I; ICC Women’s T20 World Cup) – Sri Lanka won by 14 runs
• 27 Jul 2013: Ireland v Sri Lanka (T20I; ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier) – Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
• 28 Apr 2011: Sri Lanka v Ireland (ODI; Women’s Quadrangular Series) – No result
• 14 Oct 2010: Ireland v Sri Lanka (T20I; ICC Women’s Cricket T20 Challenge) – Sri Lanka won by 11 runs
• 12 Oct 2010: Ireland v Sri Lanka (ODI; ICC Women’s Cricket Challenge) – Sri Lanka won by 2 wickets
• 5 December 2000: Ireland v Sri Lanka (ODI; Women’s Cricket World Cup) – Sri Lanka won by 10 runs

The two sides met in a warm-up match for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in 2018, which Ireland won by 8 wickets.