a draw.<\/a> <\/p>\nBowler Young and all-rounder Campher were also absent for those games and have not recovered sufficiently to take their place in the squad for the ODIs.<\/p>\n
Joining them on the sidelines is another all-rounder, Gareth Delany, who sustained an injury in a club game on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
Coming into the squad are Tim Tector, Stephen Doheny and spin bowler Gavin Hoey.<\/p>\n
Tector, 22, made his international debut against Zimbabwe in February and is the younger brother of experienced batter Harry.<\/p>\n
Doheny, 26, played three T20Is against Zimbabwe in January 2023, while 23-year-old Hoey participated in two ODIs in 2024, but has not played T20I cricket yet.<\/p>\n
The T20 encounters will be played on Thursday 12 June, Saturday 14 June and Sunday 15 June.<\/p>\n
Ireland national men’s selector Andrew White said injuries to key players had made it “a trying period of late”.<\/p>\n
“Both the recent ODI series, and this month’s T20I series, against West Indies have really tested the strength of depth in our talent pool,” said White.<\/p>\n
“While we never like to see a player injured, such circumstances do offer an opportunity for other players to step up and demonstrate their talent.<\/p>\n
“With the next men’s T20 World Cup approaching in February 2026, this series is an important part of preparing the squad for the challenge and will serve as a good barometer of where we are at.”<\/p>\n
Ireland squad for West Indies T20I series:<\/b> Paul Stirling (capt) , Mark Adair, Ross Adair, Gavin Hoey, George Dockrell, Stephen Doheny, Matthew Humphreys, Josh Little, Barry McCarthy, Liam McCarthy, Harry Tector, Tim Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Adair has returned to the Ireland squad for the three-match T20 series against the West Indies at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-161916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114634324131907908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}