The Irish cricket team toured the United Arab Emirates to play the United Arab Emirates in February 2016. The tour consisted of two Twenty20 International (T20Is) matches and a 20-over tour match. The matches were in preparation for the 2016 ICC World Twenty20. The two-match series was drawn, with Ireland winning the first match and the United Arab Emirates winning the second. The second match of the series was the 500th T20I match since the format was introduced in 2005.
Squads Amjad Javed (c) Ahmed Raza Fahad Tariq Farhan Ahmed Hafiz Qaleem Mohammad Naveed Mohammad Shahzad Muhammad Usman Swapnil Patil Qadeer Ahmed Rohan Mustafa Saqlain Haider Shaiman Anwar Laxman Sreekumar Usman Mushtaq Zaheer Maqsood William Porterfield (c) Andrew Balbirnie George Dockrell Tim Murtagh Andrew McBrine Kevin O'Brien Niall O'Brien Andrew Poynter Stuart Poynter Boyd Rankin Max Sorensen Paul Stirling Stuart Thompson Gary Wilson Craig Young
Tour match Afghanistan defeated Ireland by 10 wickets.
20-over match: Ireland vs Afghanistan
T20I series
1st T20I
2nd T20I
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo