West Indies, England to tour Ireland in 2025

West Indies, England, Zimbabwe Women and Pakistan Women will be touring Ireland in the summer this year, confirmed Cricket Ireland on Tuesday (March 11). The board also revealed that the Women's team would be playing against Pakistan, West Indies, Bangladesh, Thailand and Scotland in the ODI World Cup qualifiers next month in Pakistan from April 4.

The men's team will host West Indies for three ODIs scheduled to be held in Clontarf in late May which will then be followed by a three-match T20I series in June in Bready. Following the conclusion of the series, the Irish players will be involved in the European T20 Premier League in July-August after which England will be touring Ireland to play a bilateral T20I series in September for the first time.

The Women's team will be involved in a series of T20 internationals, with five scheduled against Zimbabwe and three against Pakistan in July-August. Cricket Ireland also confirmed that Ireland Wolves will face Afghanistan A in a four-day match in the UAE which will then be followed by a one-day tri-series with Sri Lanka A being the third team.

However, amidst this action-packed fixture list, the board also revealed that their planned series at home against Afghanistan will not go ahead. Ireland were scheduled to host Afghanistan in a multi-format series this year but those plans have been shelved. While the pressure keeps mounting on the ICC to take action against Afghanistan, Cricket Ireland have insisted that they have cancelled the series for financial reasons only.

"As we say: it's summer, it must be cricket. And this summer Irish fans will be able to enjoy some of the world's best cricketers playing on these shores," Warren Deutrom, Chief Executive of Cricket Ireland, said. "On the men's side, we have West Indies and England here, while Pakistan's and Zimbabwe's women's sides will tour as well.

"One planned series that won't go ahead for financial reasons is against Afghanistan. This decision is part of our management of short-term budgetary constraints, as well as our requirement to comply with the Board's mandate to deliver balanced investment across the organisation's strategic objectives."