{"id":235065,"date":"2025-10-31T01:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235065\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T01:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:48:07","slug":"ireland-womens-cricket-aimee-maguire-returns-to-ireland-squad-for-south-africa-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235065\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland women&#8217;s cricket: Aimee Maguire returns to Ireland squad for South Africa tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teenage spinner Aimee Maguire has returned to the Ireland cricket squad for their white-ball tour to South Africa in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 19-year-old is back in the senior side for the first time since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cz719jewn11o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">receiving ICC clearance<\/a> for her remodelled bowling action in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maguire had previously been suspended after she was reported by match officials following Ireland&#8217;s one-day international against India in Rajkot on 10 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Lloyd Tennant has named two squads as Ireland face South Africa for the first time since 2022 in both ODI and T20 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gaby Lewis will serve as captain in both series, with a further 12 players also named to feature in each three-game set. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All-rounder Georgina Dempsey has been named in the ODI squad for the first time since January after a lengthy injury lay-off but, along with Sarah Forbes, will then make way for all-rounders Alana Dalzell and Louise Little for the T20s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland will play three one-day internationals against South Africa on 5, 7 and 10 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two teams will then meet again in three T20 internationals on13, 16 and 19 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenage spinner Aimee Maguire has returned to the Ireland cricket squad for their white-ball tour to South Africa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-235065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}