• Ireland men’s cricket team to tour Bangladesh in March and April.
• Tour will include a warm-up match, three ODIs, three T20Is and a Test.
• Ireland last toured Bangladesh in early 2021 and featured 10 current senior players.

It was announced on Monday that the Ireland men’s cricket team will go to Bangladesh for a seven-match, multi-format tour in March and April of this year and play its first Test match in more than three years.

From April 4 to 8, the Test will be held at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka.

According to information provided by Cricket Ireland, the tour would last for one month and include a warm-up game on March 15, three One-Day Internationals, three T20 Internationals, and a Test match.

According to a statement on its official website and a post on social media by Cricket Ireland, this will be the first-ever Test match and multi-format series played between the two teams at the senior level.

Talking about the series, Richard Holdsworth, High-Performance Director for Cricket Ireland, said: “2023 is set to be an incredibly busy year in Irish cricket – and we’re delighted to confirm this tour of Bangladesh. While it is the first tour of its kind that we have undertaken at senior level, the Ireland Wolves toured Bangladesh in early 2021 – that squad featured 10 members of the current senior squad playing in Zimbabwe this month.”

“Under the Future Tours Programme we will be playing a great deal of cricket in Asia, so these matches are valuable experiences for our players’ development – as well as an opportunity to get an insight into the team we will be playing in our last World Cup Super League matches in May,” he said.

After a lengthy break, Holdsworth stated that the players are looking forward to playing red-ball cricket.