Cricket Eire (ci) is at the moment in talks with the Board of Management for Cricket (BCCI) in India for a possible house white-ball sequence subsequent summer season. India’s males’s workforce have toured Eire in 2018, 2022 and 2023 beforehand. Notably, India will journey to England for 5 20-over matches and three ODIs in July 2026.
It’s understood that representatives from CI have performed negotiations with BCCI over a tour earlier than the England sequence subsequent yr. The previous T20I sequence have drawn spectacular crowds at Malahide on the outskirts of Dublin.
CI’s chairperson Brian MacNeice elaborated on discussions within the assembly held with different officers concerning Eire’s cricketing fixtures. MacNeice emphasised on growing the magnitude of fixtures in each the home and worldwide enviornment.
“I opened the assembly by saying, so far as I am involved, the quantum of cricket that we’re enjoying in ’25 is not adequate to organize you guys to play worldwide cricket and to be aggressive at ICC tournaments. I am not hiding from that. We mapped out our views and ideas on what the schedule for ’26 and ’27 seems to be like, and I wished to get their enter not simply on the worldwide schedule, but in addition the home schedule,” MacNeice was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.
As per the ICC’s Future Excursions Programme, Eire will play three sequence subsequent summer season – one Take a look at in opposition to New Zealand, three ODIs and as many T20Is in opposition to Bangladesh and one Take a look at, three ODIs and three T20Is in opposition to Afghanistan.
MacNeice additionally confirmed that Eire’s proposed stadium at Abbotstown, on Dublin’s outskirts, stays “very a lot on observe”. He added that he additionally held constructive discussions with senior ECB representatives this week in relation to the 2030 males’s T20 World Cup.
MacNeice has additionally taken cost because the chairperson of the European T20 Premier League on Thursday, September 18. Initially scheduled for 2025, the ETPL’s inaugural season has been postponed to 2026 on account of difficulties in securing patrons for franchises.
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