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Irish team to cut short BD tour due to Covid
Sports
March 14, 2021
DHAKA: Ireland Wolves’ tour of Bangladesh has been reduced by three days, with the second T20 match that was scheduled being cancelled on account of Covid-19 related restrictions in Ireland about their transit country on the flight back home.
The Wolves have already played one unofficial Test and four unofficial one-dayers against the Bangladesh Emerging Team. They will play the fifth and final ODI in Dhaka on Sunday, and a solitary T20 match on March 16, following which the Wolves will fly back home.
Cricket Ireland said in a statement that both boards had agreed to the change in the itinerary, which originally had two T20 matches scheduled for March 17 and 18. The change was brought about because the team will have to reroute their return flight that was originally transiting through the UAE, and fly back home via a different country. With the UAE being a Category 2 ‘red list’ country as per Ireland, ev
Bangladesh Emerging team wraps up one-day series in style
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Bangladesh Emerging Team sealed a comprehensive eight-wicket win over
visiting Irelands Wolves in the fourth match of a five-match one-day series
at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium today.
By virtue of this victory, Bangladesh took an unassailable 3-0 lead with
the first match being called off after an Irish player Ruhan Pretorious
returned Covid-19 positive in review result.
The last and fifth match of the series, which turned out to be dead-rubber
is on Sunday at the same venue.
The Emerging Team won the second game by four wickets and the third by six
It was a case of COVID-19 stops play on Friday as a cricket match in Bangladesh involving a visiting Irish team was abandoned part-way through after one of the tourists tested positive.
Saif’s ton leads Emerging Team to victory against Ireland Wolves
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with a sublime 120 runs knock as Bangladesh Emerging Team romped to a six-
wicket win over visiting Ireland Wolves in the third match of the five-match
one-day series at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram today.
By virtue of the victory, Bangladesh took a 2-0 lead with the first match
being called off. The victory also meant Ireland, who lost the lone four-day
game, has no option to win the one-day series from here.
The game was delayed by two hours and started at 11 AM instead of 9 AM in