Ireland have been drawn with co-hosts Sri Lanka and Australia in Group B for next year\u2019s Twenty20 World Cup, which will be played in India and Sri Lanka. Zimbabwe and Oman will make up the five-team group.<\/p>\n
The Ireland team are presently in Bangladesh, where they will play the first of three T20 internationals against their hosts at Chattogram on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Ireland will open their World Cup campaign against co-hosts Sri Lanka at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Sunday, February 8th, while a tough start to the tournament continues when they face Australia at the same ground on Wednesday, February 11th.<\/p>\n
They will take on Oman at the SSC ground in Colombo on Saturday, February 14th before finishing their group matches against Zimbabwe in Pallekelle on Tuesday February 17th. <\/p>\n
Arch-rivals India and Pakistan will clash in a politically-charged Group A match in Colombo on Sunday, February 15th.<\/p>\n
Pakistan will play all their games in Sri Lanka because of their soured political relations with India.<\/p>\n
A military conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours in May overshadowed the subsequent Asia Cup in which India refused to accept the winners\u2019 trophy from Asian Cricket Council chief Mohsin Naqvi who is Pakistan\u2019s interior minister.<\/p>\n
The 20-team tournament will be played across eight venues \u2013 five in India and three in Sri Lanka \u2013 between February 7th and March 8th.<\/p>\n
The final is scheduled for the western Indian city of Ahmedabad but would be moved to Colombo if Pakistan reach it.<\/p>\n
Ireland\u2019s 2026 Twenty20 World Cup Group B fixtures (all times Irish)<\/p>\n
Sunday, February 8th: v Sri Lanka, R Premedasa Stadium, Colombo, 1.30pm<\/p>\n
Wednesday, February 11th: v Australia, R Premedasa Stadium, Colombo, 9.30am<\/p>\n
Saturday, February 14th: v Oman, SSC, Colombo, 5.30am<\/p>\n
Tuesday, February 17th: v Zimbabwe, Pallekelle, 9.30am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland have been drawn with co-hosts Sri Lanka and Australia in Group B for next year\u2019s Twenty20 World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8755,8756,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-159057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}