Irish cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2024–25
international cricket tour
The Ireland cricket team toured Zimbabwe in February 2025 to play the Zimbabwe cricket team. The tour consisted of one Test, three One Day Internationals (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. In January 2025, Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) confirmed the fixtures for the tour.
Ireland won the one-off Test match by 63 runs. Matthew Humphreys took six wickets in the last innings to record the best Test innings bowling figures for Ireland.
Squads
On 14 February, Barry McCarthy was ruled out of the ODI and T20I series due to an abdominal muscle injury and Jordan Neill named in ODI squad and Fionn Hand named in T20I squad as his replacement. On 17 February, Ross Adair was ruled out of the T20I series due to a calf injury, with Tim Tector named as his replacement.
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