When it was first mooted to play a Cricket series between England and Australia, and then timed the southern hemisphere edition for Christmas week, it became the Ashes, one of the most enduring and iconic sporting rivalries.
The sport and the timing are the same for a brand new clash unveiled this morning with the Irish and US Men’s Cricket teams meeting for a five-match series in Florida between the 22nd and the 30th of December.
Ireland Men’s cricket team will become the first Full Member nation to tour the United States to play against the USA Men’s national team.
In a country with such romantic support of baseball, there has always been a sense that cricket could catch on. The Joseph O’Neill novel Netherland is based around the characters of the Staten Island Cricket Club at the time of 9/11. New York alone boast more than 50 cricket pitches, played on by immigrants from cricket nations around the world.
Could Ireland become the spark that ignites the sport, and wouldn’t it be something if tours between the respective sides became a regular feature of the sporting calendar?
In addition to the Men’s tour, the Ireland Men’s Under-19s World Cup squad will accompany the senior squad for a preparation camp and white-ball series against USA Men’s Under-19s, ahead of the Irish team’s participation in the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in January being held in the West Indies.
The series precedes Ireland’s scheduled World Cup Super League Series with the West Indies in January in the Caribbean.
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