Dublin to host Ireland-England ODI in 2011

The England and Ireland cricket boards have announced that their sides will play an ODI in Dublin in August 2011. The game will be held at Clontarf Cricket Club which hosted a one-dayer between Australia and the home team earlier this year.

"We are pleased to have agreed this fixture with Cricket Ireland," England Cricket Board CEO David Collier said. "Irish cricket continues to make excellent progress and I am sure that Ireland will provide tough opposition for our one-day squad ahead of The NatWest Series against India later in the summer."

Warren Deutrom, CEO of Cricket Ireland, echoed Collier's views and was confident that his side would compete well with England. "Our matches against England are always special. We look forward to hosting household names including Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Graham Swann and not forgetting Eoin Morgan [who hails from Ireland]. We know that the progress we continue to make on the world stage means that we go into this game confident of taking the scalp of England to atone for the agonising three-run defeat from our last encounter."