Preview :
Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland are playing a T20I tri-series in Ireland ahead of the next month’s T20 World Cup Qualifiers. All three teams will take this series for their preparation for the qualifiers and it’s a good opportunity for all the players to get some runs and wickets under their belt. Though Ireland will have the home advantage but Netherlands and Scotland too have good experience of these conditions and it’s going to be a close fought series.
Match Details :
Match : IRE vs NED, Ireland vs Netherlands, Ireland T20I tri-series
Date and time : 15 September 2019, 6.00 PM IST
Venue : The Village, Dublin
Ireland Team News and Expected Playing XI :
Team News :
1. Ireland is ranked 15th in the ICC T20I team rankings.
2. Jacob Mulder is back to the T20I squad after a gap of 2 years.
3. Uncapped Harry Tector and David Delany are also included in the squad.
4. Greg Thompson and Josh Little have been dropped from the squad.
5. There are no injury concerns in the Ireland team camp.
Expected XI :
Paul Stirling, Kevin O’Brien, Andrew Balbirnie, Gary Wilson (c), Lorcan Tucker, Mark Adair, Shane Getkate, Stuart Thompson, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Craig Young,
Netherlands Team News and Expected Playing XI :
Team News :
1. Netherlands is ranked 16th in the ICC T20I team rankings.
2. Stephen Myburgh has been dropped for this series after a poor outing against UAE last month.
3.16 years old all rounder Vikramjit Singh has got his maiden call up to the Netherlands side.
4. Sikandar Zulfiqar, Hidde Overdijk, Sebastiaan Braat and Vivian Kingma are also not included in the squad.
5. There are no injury issues in the Netherlands team camp.
Expected XI :
Max O’Dowd, Tobias Visee, Ben Cooper, Scott Edwards, Bas de Leede, Pieter Seelaar, Antonius Staal, Philippe Boissevain, Paul van Meekeren, Shane Snater, Fred Klaassen
IRE vs NED Dream11 Prediction :
Wicketkeepers : Tobias Visee, Gary Wilson
Batsmen : Max O’Dowd, Paul Stirling, Kevin O’Brien
All rounders : Pieter Seelaar, Stuart Thompson, Mark Adair
Bowlers : Craig Young, Fred Klaassen, George Dockrell
Captain and Vice Captain :
Captain Paul Stirling and vice captain Mark Adair
Stats and facts :
1. Paul Stirling has scored 335 runs at an average of 47.85 and at a strike rate of 153.66 in 8 T20I innings with 4 fifties this year.
2. Max O’Dowd with 284 runs from 8 T20I innings is the leading run getter for Netherlands in this format this year.
3. Tobbie Visee’s batting strike rate this year is 179.27 and has also scored 199 runs in 5 T20Is with 2 fifties.
4. Netherlands captain Pieter Seelaar has scored 118 runs at an average of 29.50 and has also taken 8 wickets at an average of 30.50 in 9 T20I innings this year.
5. Ireland all rounder Mark Adair made a good start to his T20I career with 4 wickets and an impressive knock of 38 runs in the two T20Is against Zimbabwe last month.
6. Fred Klaassen has taken 9 wickets at an average of 17.66 in T20Is this year – the most wickets by a Netherlands bowler in this format this year.