Indian cricket team will play two-match T20I series against the hosts Ireland at The Village (Malahide, Dublin) that have been scheduled on June 27 and 29. While Ireland is the no.17 T20I ranked team, India is no.3 T20I ranked team at present.
In the T20I cricket history, they have met only once and that was in the 2009 ICC World T20 Group A game at Nottingham where India had comfortably beat them by 8 wickets with 15 balls to spare.
Coming to the upcoming series, while India is the favourite side, Ireland has a great opportunity to showcase some fights against the strongest side that can inspire the whole nation in the shorter international cricket format.
Before the beginning of the short series, we will look at some important T20I stats related with this series.
(Teams stats)
Highest totals
Ireland: 225/7 (20 overs) against Afghanistan at Abu Dhabi on November 30, 2013
India: 260/5 (20 overs) against Sri Lanka at Indore on December 22, 2017
Lowest totals (completed innings)
Ireland: 68 (16.4 overs) against West Indies at Providence on April 30, 2010
India: 74 (17.3 overs) against Australia at Melbourne on February 1, 2008
Largest victories (by runs)
Ireland: 98 runs against Scotland at Dubai (DSC) on January 20, 2017
India: 93 runs against Sri Lanka at Cuttack on December 20, 2017
Largest victories (by Wickets)
Ireland: 10 wickets for twice; against Kenya at Dubai (DSC) on March 14, 2012, and against Canada at Dubai (DSC) on March 22, 2012
India: 10 wickets against Zimbabwe at Harare on June 20, 2016
(Individual stats) – Batting
Highest individual knocks
Ireland: 81 by Paul Stirling against Scotland at Deventer on June 17, 2018
India: 118 by Rohit Sharma against Sri Lanka at Indore on December 22, 2017
Most runs scorers
Ireland: 1,151 runs by Paul Stirling
India: 1,983 runs by Virat Kohli
(Individual stats) – Bowling
Best bowling figure in an innings
Ireland: 4/11 by Alex Cusack against West Indies at Kingston on February 21, 2014
India: 6/25 by Yuzvendra Chahal against England at Bengaluru on February 1, 2017
Most wicket takers
Ireland: 58 wickets by George Dockrell
India: 52 wickets by Ravichandran Ashwin
(Venue stats) – The Village, Malahide, Dublin
T20I records: Played – 6; Batting first won – 1; Batting second won – 5
Highest total: 162/5 (20 overs) by Hong Kong against Afghanistan on July 21, 2015
Lowest total (completed innings): 93 (19.4 overs) by Nepal against PNG on July 17, 2015
Largest victory (by runs): 5 runs by Hong Kong against Ireland on July 17, 2015
Largest victory (by wickets): 8 wickets by PNG against Nepal on July 17, 2015
Highest individual knock: 65* by Nawroz Mangal (Afghanistan) against PNG on July 23, 2015
Best bowling figure in an innings: 4/28 by Mudassar Bukhari (Netherlands) against Ireland on July 25, 2015
Records are coming
- Indian skipper Virat Kohli (1,983 runs) needs to score 17 more runs to become the third cricketer to score 2,000 or more runs in the T20I career. The first two batsmen, who achieved this feat, both are New Zealand batsmen – Brendon McCullum (2,140 runs) and Martin Guptill (2,271 runs).
- Indian wicketkeeper MS Dhoni (49 catches) needs to take one more catch as a wicketkeeper to complete his 50 T20I catches as a wicketkeeper. He will become the first wicketkeeper to achieve this feat, as well as, the second player (including non-wicketkeeper) as AB de Villiers (South Africa) had taken a total of 65 T20I catches.
- Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah (23 wickets) needs to take one more wicket to become the most T20I wicket-taker as an Indian pacer outside the home soil. Left-arm pacer Irfan Pathan has also the same number T20I wickets (23 wickets) outside India.
