India and Ireland are set to take on each other in the 8th match of the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup 2024. It will be the campaign opener for both teams in the current edition of the tournament. Earlier, both teams faced each other on only one occasion in the T20 World Cup’s edition of 2009. India won that match by 8 wickets at Trent Bridge Nottingham.
But Ireland has grown a lot as a team throughout the years in the shortest format of the game so, it won’t be a surprise if they make it tough for India to get an easy win in their T20 WC 2024 campaign opener. With that said, here we’ll have a look at the top 3 players to watch out for in the upcoming clash against India.
Here’s a look 3 Ireland players to watch out for against India:
1. Paul Stirling
The veteran Irish batter will be leading his side for the first time in the T20 World Cup 2024. He might also be one of the key players to watch out for Ireland’s game against India. The opening stalwart is currently the leading run-scorer for Ireland in the T20 World Cup history.
Stirling has scored 407 runs in 20 innings, hitting 2 half-centuries, and having a strike rate of 124.09. He has a knack for playing a match-defining knock in Ireland’s favour during the game against Rohit Sharma’s India.
2. Andrew Balbirnie
The former Ireland skipper has been involved in some of the terrific matches for his side in the T20 World Cup history, both as a player and a skipper. Besides that, Balbirnie is in the 4th spot in the list of leading run-scorers for Ireland in the T20 World Cup.
The top-order batter has scored 223 runs in 10 innings, scoring one half-century with the bat; he could be one of the vital cogs in the wheel for the Irish side in an all-important campaign opener against the men in blue on June 5, at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York.
3. Josh Little
When it comes to talking about the bowling leaders for Ireland in their history of the T20 World Cup, the young pacer Josh Little stands at the top spot, being the leading wicket-taker for his side in the tournament’s history. Little has been the most consistent performer with the ball for Ireland.
He has scalped 16 wickets in 10 innings with a brilliant economy rate of 6.36 and an amazing strike rate of 14.62, including a four-wicket haul, with the best performance of 4 wickets just at the cost of 23 runs in the match. Having experience playing in IPL, he might produce slight trouble for the Indian batters with the new ball in the powerplay phase during the first six overs.
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