Cork County will face the winners of the Cricket Leinster T20 competition at the Semi-Final stage of the Clear Currency All-Ireland T20 Cup in Dublin on Sunday, 13th September. As winners of the Munster T20 Blast, County will face either YMCA or Railway Union for a place in the prestigious final.
Due to the condensed nature of the season, the Clear Currency All-Ireland T20 Cup is the only All-Ireland competition taking place and so there is heightened interest in this seasons competition with European Cricket League qualification up for grabs also.
Fixture schedule
The Clear Currency All-Ireland T20 Cup schedule, as it currently stands, is:
Semi-finals:
- Semi-final 1 – NWCU club v CIYMS* (at Bready, 1 pm Saturday 12 September)
- Semi-final 2 – Cricket Leinster club v Cork County* (at Pembroke 1 pm, Sunday 13 September)
- Final (at Belmont, Saturday 19 September)
- Play-off for European Cricket League (at Belmont, Sunday 20 September)
* Please note: CIYMS – last year’s winners – have already qualified as the Northern Cricket Union’s representative, and Cork County qualified as Munster Cricket Union’s representative. The representative from North West Cricket Union will be determined on 5 September, while Leinster’s representative will be determined on 12 September.
The Final will be live-streamed, with details announced shortly.
In addition, an extra match has been added to the schedule this year, with the European Cricket League play-off. In 2019 it was announced that the All-Ireland T20 Cup winners would go on to represent Ireland in the European Cricket League. Last year’s winners, CIYMS, were set to compete this summer until the pandemic saw this year’s competition cancelled. To acknowledge the unfortunate circumstances, this year the 2019 and 2020 Clear Currency All-Ireland T20 Cup winners will playoff to identify Ireland’s representative at the 2021 European Cricket League.
The play-off will be played at Belmont on Sunday 20 September – however, if CIYMS win the Cup again in 2020 then no play-off will be required.
Cork County Squad
- Abubakar Saddique Wattoo*
- Rudolph Pollard
- Benji Marris+
- Nabeel Anjum
- Harvey Wootton
- Zuhair Shah
- Diarmuid Carey
- Alex Gaspar
- Daniel Kennedy
- Brandon Kruger
- Sid Joshi
- Eshan O’Sullivan
- Scorer: Talha Kayani
- Coach: Robert Duggan