Simi Singh

Born in India, spin-bowling allrounder Simi Singh moved to Ireland as a teenager, but broke into the national side at age 30, after an impressive all-round show for Ireland A. On a limited-overs tour of England, Simi accumulated 194 runs in four innings - including two fifties and a 97 off 57 balls in a T20 against Gloucestershire 2nd XI. He also bagged seven wickets at an average of 17.42 on the tour. He followed it up with an unbeaten 70 for Leinster Lightning in the Inter-Provincial Limited-Over Cup

His debut, in an ODI tri-series featuring New Zealand and Bangladesh in 2017, was uneventful, but his first notable performance for Ireland came the next year at the World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe. Although Ireland finished fifth and failed to qualify for the 2019 World Cup, Simi picked up eight wickets in three matches. Two months later, on T20I debut, he took 3 for 23 and scored 57 not out against Netherlands.

By 2021, Simi was a fixture in the national side. He netted his first five-wicket haul in January that year, taking 5 for 10 against UAE in an ODI in Abu Dhabi. He followed that up a few months later with a maiden ODI hundred, against South Africa in Malahide, becoming the first batter to score a hundred in the format from No. 8.

He turned out for Ireland at the T20 World Cup in 2022 but was noticeably absent from international cricket post the tournament. In 2024, Cricket Ireland announced that Simi had been taken critically ill following acute liver failure, but was on the mend after receiving a liver transplant.