Phil Simmons

Ireland have named an unchanged 14-man squad to take on Pakistan in two ODIs at the end of the month

Ireland have awarded medium-pacer Max Sorensen a category A central contract for the first time, as they prepare for life without Boyd Rankin

Cricket Ireland has set out its strategy to bring full Test status by 2020

Ireland's coach Phil Simmons has joined the clamour of condemnation following the decision to limit the 2015 World Cup to just the ten Test-playing nations, describing the move as "despicable"

Ireland ought to play more often against the bigger teams because they've won their respect given how they've performed in this World Cup, coach Phil Simmons has said

Warren Deutrom, Cricket Ireland's chief executive, has denied that the Irish cricket team was placed under any undue pressure to travel to Zimbabwe for an Intercontinental Cup match and one-day series in September

William Porterfield has been named captain of the Ireland squad for the two-ODI RSA series against Bangladesh

A team man, a hard worker, a fine player, a big brother, and most of all, down-to-earth

Phil Simmons, the Ireland coach, has accused his side of 'complacency' after they slumped to defeat against Afghanistan in the World Twenty20 warm-up game

Ireland's coach believes his side are wiser going in to the third edition of the ICC World Twenty20 than they were in last summer's competition

Jamaican all-rounder, Andre Russell, swung his way ferociously to 108 runs off 65 balls, as the final day of the Jamaica Cricket Festival match against Ireland petered out to a draw at Chedwin Park

Ed Joyce, the former England and Ireland batsman, is mulling a return to Irish cricket at the World Cup next year

Ireland are targeting victories in their two ODIs against Bangladesh this summer

Phil Simmons is relishing a return to the Caribbean, where he will attempt to guide Ireland to the latter stages of the World Twenty20 tournament after their success at the Qualifiers.

Ireland will play a quadrangular Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka, involving Sri Lanka A, Afghanistan and Canada

They will make a return along with John Mooney, who joined the squad for the ODIs against Scotland at the weekend

Ireland coach Phil Simmons has big ambitions for his team at the ICC World Twenty20 and will be disappointed if the side don't make it through to the Super Eight stage of the tournament

Ireland have virtually retained the same squad that won the recent World Cup Qualifiers tournament in South Africa

Following Ireland's successful World Cup qualifying campaign in South Africa coach Phil Simmons has extended his deal until 2011