The South African, appointed in \u200c2022, oversaw a period in which Ireland qualified for three consecutive T20 World Cups, secured their first three test match victories, and claimed their first-ever series win \u200bagainst India.<\/p>\n
Few gave Ireland a chance in the two-match series, but \u200bthey humbled India twice in three days, spoiling Shreyas Iyer’s \u2060debut series as India’s 20-overs captain. It was India’s first T20 series defeat \u200bsince 2023.<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old’s current contract extends into early 2027, but Cricket Ireland \u200bsaid in a statement, “he (Malan) believes the timing is right in the cycle to step back following the just-concluded successful T20 series versus India.”<\/p>\n
Malan will be replaced by Gary Wilson, \u200bwho represented Ireland 292 times as a player between 2005 and \u200b2020. Wilson joined Ireland’s coaching setup as assistant coach in 2022, and becomes the first \u200cIrish-born \u2060head coach in over 30 years, following John Wills in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n
“It has been an absolute privilege to work with these players, staff and the wider Irish cricket community,” Malan said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“On the \u200bfield, we can look \u200bback with \u2060great pride,” he added, pointing to a T20 World Cup victory against England, Ireland’s first-ever Test victory against Afghanistan \u200band a first home Test win vs Zimbabwe among \u200bthe highlights.<\/p>\n
Malan \u2060will work alongside Wilson over the coming month to ensure a smooth transition as Ireland prepare for a one-day international series against Afghanistan in August.<\/p>\n
Cricket \u2060Ireland \u200balso said that the transition will allow Wilson \u200bto use the upcoming ODI series as part of the preparations towards the World Cup \u200bqualifiers early in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South African, appointed in \u200c2022, oversaw a period in which Ireland qualified for three consecutive T20 World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-524160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524160","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=524160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}