{"id":128189,"date":"2025-09-08T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128189\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:59:07","slug":"uncapped-batter-included-in-irelands-t20i-squad-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128189\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncapped batter included in Ireland&#8217;s T20I squad for England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Calitz has earned a maiden call-up in Ireland&#8217;s T20I squad in what will be a historic moment for his team, with them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/england-recall-all-rounder-for-south-africa-ireland-t20i-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hosting England<\/a> for a T20I series for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Calitz, 23, has represented Canada at the Under-19 level before being selected for the Ireland Wolves tour to UAE in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Stirling will lead the 14-member squad, but notable names like Mark Adair, Josh Little, Fionn Hand, who are still working through rehabilitation programmes will miss the series due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland squad for England T20Is: Paul Stirling (captain), Ross Adair, Ben Calitz, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Barry McCarthy, Jordan Neil, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White, Craig Young<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Calitz has earned a maiden call-up in Ireland&#8217;s T20I squad in what will be a historic moment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[5101,64,63,740,5103,44,85],"class_list":["post-128189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-app-stream","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-highlighted-news","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}