Irish cricket team against Papua New Guinea in Australia in 2015–16

International cricket tour

Irish cricket team against Papua New Guinea in Australia in 2015–16

	Ireland	Papua New Guinea
Dates	24 January – 9 February 2016
Captains	William Porterfield	Jack Vare
Twenty20 International series
Results	Ireland won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Gary Wilson (73)	Charles Amini (47) Sese Bau (47)
Most wickets	George Dockrell (6)	Norman Vanua (4)

The Irish cricket team toured Australia to play Papua New Guinea from 24 January to 9 February 2016. The tour consisted of a first-class match, three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and a tour match.^[1] The first-class match was part of the 2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup^[2] and the tour match was in preparation of the Intercontinental Cup match.^[3] Ireland won the T20I series 2–1.^[4]

Squads

Ireland^[2]	Papua New Guinea
William Porterfield (c) Andrew Balbirnie George Dockrell Tim Murtagh Andrew McBrine Kevin O'Brien Niall O'Brien Andrew Poynter Stuart Poynter Boyd Rankin Max Sorensen Paul Stirling Stuart Thompson Gary Wilson Craig Young	Jack Vare (c) Charles Amini Sese Bau Mahuru Dai Hiri Hiri Vani Morea Alei Nao Loa Nou Nosaina Pokana Pipi Raho John Reva Lega Siaka Chad Soper Assad Vala Norman Vanua

Tour match

Two-day match: Queensland XI vs. Ireland

24 – 25 January 2016
Scorecard

Ireland	v	Queensland
155 (51.1 overs) Ed Joyce 35 (60) James Bazley 2/11 (6 overs)		240/9d (65.2 overs) Simon Milenko 62 (94) Paul Stirling 3/55 (19 overs)
82/6 (27.1 overs) William Porterfield 27 (48) Cameron Gannon 2/4 (4 overs)

Match drawn
Brisbane Grammar School Oval, Brisbane
Umpires: Steven Farrell (Aus) and Jayvan Ruddick-Collins (Aus)

Ireland won the toss and elected to bat.

Intercontinental Cup

T20I series

1st T20I

6 February 2016
Scorecard

Papua New Guinea 92/9 (20 overs)	v	Ireland 97/5 (12.1 overs)
Sese Bau 22 (21) Kevin O'Brien 2/10 (4 overs)		Gary Wilson 45 (33) Norman Vanua 3/26 (4 overs)

Ireland won by 5 wickets
Tony Ireland Stadium, Townsville
Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (Nep) and Rod Tucker (Aus)

Ireland won the toss and elected to field.
Sese Bau, Hiri Hiri and Nosaina Pokana (Papua New Guinea) all made their T20I debuts.

2nd T20I

7 February 2016
Scorecard

Ireland 96/5 (11 overs)	v	Papua New Guinea 89/9 (11 overs)
Stuart Poynter 35 (24) Pipi Raho 3/11 (2 overs)		Norman Vanua 26* (15) George Dockrell 3/18 (3 overs)

Ireland won by 7 runs (DLS method)
Tony Ireland Stadium, Townsville
Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (Nep) and Rod Tucker (Aus)

Papua New Guinea won the toss and elected to field.
Rain reduced the match to 11 overs per side.^[5]
Pipi Raho (Papua New Guinea) made his T20I debut.

3rd T20I

9 February 2016
Scorecard

Papua New Guinea 116/8 (20 overs)	v	Ireland 105 (19.1 overs)
Sese Bau 25 (22) Tim Murtagh 3/23 (4 overs)		Niall O'Brien 27 (32) Chad Soper 3/13 (3.1 overs)

Papua New Guinea won by 11 runs
Tony Ireland Stadium, Townsville
Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (Nep) and Rod Tucker (Aus)

Papua New Guinea won the toss and elected to bat.

References

^ "Ireland tour of Australia". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Rankin in Ireland squad for PNG clash and UAE tour". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
^ "Ireland batsmen struggle on first day against Queensland XI". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
^ "Ireland beaten by Papua New Guinea in final T20". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
^ "Ireland seal series with seven-run D/L win". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 February 2016.