{"id":461826,"date":"2026-05-22T14:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461826\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:04:14","slug":"ireland-name-squad-for-historic-new-zealand-clash-%c2%b7-the-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461826\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland name squad for historic New Zealand clash \u00b7 The 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRELAND HAVE NAMED their squad for the upcoming Test Match against New Zealand at Stormont next week.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time the sides have met in Test cricket.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day Test takes place between 27-30 May, starting at 11am daily<\/p>\n<p>Ireland Men have played just 12 Tests in their history, winning four, including their first one in 2024 against Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Balbirnie, who is the only player to feature in all 12 Irish Tests so far, will captain the side.<\/p>\n<p>The squad is without several important players \u2013 injury has ruled out Paul Stirling, Barry McCarthy, Jordan Neill, Gavin Hoey and Josh Little.<\/p>\n<p>Four players could make their Test debuts if selected: Jake Egan, Tom Mayes, Liam McCarthy and Reuben Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Info on tickets is available <a href=\"https:\/\/cricketireland.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ireland squad:<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Balbirnie (c)<br \/>\nMark Adair<br \/>\nCurtis Campher<br \/>\nCade Carmichael<br \/>\nStephen Doheny<br \/>\nJake Egan<br \/>\nMatthew Humphreys<br \/>\nTom Mayes<br \/>\nAndrew McBrine<br \/>\nLiam McCarthy<br \/>\nHarry Tector<br \/>\nLorcan Tucker<br \/>\nReuben Wilson<br \/>\nCraig Young<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRELAND HAVE NAMED their squad for the upcoming Test Match against New Zealand at Stormont next week. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[199956,8755,61,60,1261,43,137137,128104],"class_list":["post-461826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andrew-balbirnie","tag-cricket","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-ready-to-go","tag-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461826","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=461826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}