India vs Ireland 1st T20I 2026 live score, toss winner, winning probability, result and highlights from Belfast

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Venue: Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast

Captains: Shreyas Iyer (India), Lorcan Tucker (Ireland)

Toss result: India won the toss and opted to bowl first. (1:00 p.m. local BST, 5:30 p.m. IST)

Live Telecast: Sony Sports Network (India), Willow TV (USA, Canada), TNT Sports + Discovery+ (UK, Ireland)

Umpires and Match officials: Gareth Morrison, Roly Black (on-field umpires), Jonathan Kennedy (Third/TV umpire), Aidan Seaver (Fourth/Reserve umpire), Dean Cosker (Match referee)

Match result: TBD

Player of the Match: TBD

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Follow along with the latest live scorecard here as the match unfolds, or click here for key text commentary updates from the action.

Team
Win percentage
India
90%
Ireland
10%

Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson open the batting as India chase 183. If the visitors chase this successfully, it would be a record score chased at the venue in T20Is.

Sanju Samson is dismissed on 5 by Indian-born Irish left-arm pacer Jay Moondra, who picks up a wicket off the first ball on his T20I debut.

Arshdeep Singh opens the bowling but Ireland takes 14 off the first over.

Harshit Rana provides the first breakthrough for India in the second over, removing Ross Adair for 12(7) as Sanju Samson picks up the catch. Harry Tector comes in at No. 3.

End of powerplay (6 overs); Ireland are 36/3 and in trouble.

Skipper Lorcan Tucker is in the middle after Rana struck again to remove the other opener, Tim Tector, while Arshdeep dismissed Harry Tector.

Tucker brings up his 12th T20I half-century. Interestingly, in three matches he’s captained the Irish in the format so far and he’s scored fifties in all of them. His partnership with Gareth Delaney also extends over 60 runs. Ireland 111/4 in 14 overs.

Prasidh concedes 57 runs in his 4 overs. Delany missed out on his fifty as Arshdeep scalps him on 49.

Ireland finished on 182/9 in 20 overs. India needs 183 runs to win.

Hello everyone, and welcome to the live blog for the India vs Ireland 1st T20I 2026 at the Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Shreyas Iyer wins the toss in his first match as T20I skipper. India opts to bowl first. No debut for Sooryavanshi today.
Shreyas Iyer (on Sooryavanshi): “Unfortunately, no [he isn’t playing]. He’s a gun player but we have some tremendous players who have done well for us, so we are backing them. He will get his chance when the time comes.”
Sanjay Manjrekar on India leaving out Sooryavanshi for 1st T20I:

“It’s a call based on merit. You can’t drop the other guys just because we are excited with the young boy. So India are doing the right thing and that’s the right message.”

“They have dropped a T20 World Cup-winning captain in SKY, so India is now focused on cricketing merit, which should be the case always.”
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“I am glad they haven’t got carried away with excitement around the young kid,” he added. “He can wait his turn and he’s got time unless there’s place for him in the playing XI.”
All the talk before the game has been about the 15-year-old batting sensation, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who could become India’s youngest-ever international debutant if he is named in the playing XI.
However, to do that, India has to disrupt its top 3 of Sanju Samson, Abhishek Sharma, and Ishan Kishan, who led the side successfully to the T20 World Cup trophy earlier this year.
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Fans who flock to the game are sure to be disappointed if Sooryavanshi doesn’t take the field in either game. So we expect the teenager to feature in at least one of these matches — could either Samson or Kishan sit out and then return for the England T20Is?
Meanwhile, Lorcan Tucker was handed over the captaincy duties for Ireland in the lead-up to the 2028 T20 World Cup and possibly the home World Cup in 2030. The Irish could hand out a debut to Reuben Wilson, a teenager himself, while India-born left-arm quick Jai Moondra is also expected to play his first match.
Indiaplaying XI: Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Prasidh Krishna.
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Irelandplaying XI: Tim Tector, Ross Adair, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker (c&wk), Ben Calitz, Gareth Delaney, George Dockrell, Matthew Humphreys, Matthew Holard, Liam McCarthy, Jai Moondra.

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There is a high chance of rain in Belfast during the match. We might have a truncated game. Let’s take a look at the hourly temperatures and the probability of rainfall in Belfast on Friday.

12 p.m. – 22 degrees Celsius (47% chance of rain)

1 p.m. – 23 degrees Celsius (49% chance of rain)

2 p.m. – 23 degrees Celsius (54% chance of rain, thunderstorms)

3 p.m. – 23 degrees Celsius (49% chance of rain)

4 p.m. – 23 degrees Celsius (42% chance of rain)

5 p.m. – 23 degrees Celsius (34% chance of rain)

6 p.m. – 24 degrees Celsius (34% chance of rain)

7 p.m. – 24 degrees Celsius (23% chance of rain)

Date
Match
Venue
Start Time (Local)
Start Time (IST)
Friday, June 26, 2026
1st T20I: Ireland vs India
Stormont, Belfast
1:30 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
2nd T20I: Ireland vs India
Stormont, Belfast
1:30 p.m.
6:00 p.m.

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