Ross Adair will also make a debut of sorts. While he has represented Ireland at home and abroad in the T20I format, this will be the first time he has done so at Stormont.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old is expected to lead Ireland’s attack, and while his age profile differs from Sooryavanshi, he admits the Indian teenager is “one of those guys I’d like to be”.<\/p>\n
“He’s no fear, doesn’t care who he is batting against – he just wants to take everyone on, and India have given him the licence to do that,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a big occasion for them and for us, so it’s cool to be a part of it.”<\/p>\n
One person who won’t be part of this weekend’s internationals is Adair’s younger brother Mark, who is on the injury list.<\/p>\n
His absence is a blow to Irish hopes and older brother Ross admits “he will be a big loss for us”.<\/p>\n
“We know how important he is with the ball and the bat,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Playing against these guys in such a big occasion with a full house, he would have stepped up to the mark.<\/p>\n
“He will be here but whether he’ll like being here with the occasion and what he’s missing out on, he may not enjoy it as much.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ross Adair will also make a debut of sorts. While he has represented Ireland at home and abroad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657341","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=657341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}