Ireland has named their squad for next month’s ICC Women’s Championship series at home against Sri Lanka.
Laura Delany will once yet again captain the Ireland side throughout the five white-ball contests in Belfast and Dublin, with the three ODIs between the teams to count towards the ongoing ICC Women’s Championship.
There is a maiden call up for Alice Tector, the younger sister of star Ireland men’s batter Harry Tector, while Christina Coulter-Reilly is also in line for a entrance after she was named in the 14-player squad for the two T20I matches beginning on 11 August
Ireland coach Ed Joyce is supposing a tough battle from the Sri Lanka team and wants his players to embrace the difficult task in front of them throughout the series.
“Every international series for us is really important because we know we want to see progression. It’s always tricky looking at results, especially when playing against teams ranked much higher than us,” Joyce said.
“Sri Lanka have really improved – we were perceptibly hoping to play them in the final in the (ICC Women’s T20 World Cup) qualifiers, but didn’t quite get there. You know, they’ve obviously got one of the world’s best in captain Chamari Athapaththu, but the rest of their players seem to be young and hungry and doing really well. So I think they’re both two very tough series for us.”
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