{"id":17126,"date":"2026-01-30T05:50:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17126"},"modified":"2026-01-30T05:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:50:53","slug":"t20-world-cup-ireland-beat-uae-in-opening-t20-as-world-cup-preparations-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17126","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: Ireland beat UAE in opening T20 as World Cup preparations continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Richard Holdsworth has announced he is to step down as director of cricket with Cricket Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Holdsworth first arrived at Cricket Ireland in 2011, spending 13 years as high performance director before taking up the director of cricket role two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his tenure, Holdsworth played a key role in building and professionalising Ireland&#8217;s elite cricket systems, including overseeing the development and implementation of central player contracts across men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s programmes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was also central in the transition from associate member to a full member of the International Cricket Council in 2017 with Ireland&#8217;s men achieving Test status in the same year, while supporting the reintroduction of the domestic men&#8217;s inter-provincial series and women&#8217;s super series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly proud of what we have achieved together working with a team of outstanding staff,&#8221; Holdsworth said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;From our collective efforts to professionalise structures and support players at the highest level, to seeing Ireland compete with distinction on the global stage \u2014 it has been a privilege to be part of this journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Cricket Ireland will soon welcome a new chief executive officer, further marking a transition to the next phase of the organisation&#8217;s strategic growth and ambition, and I wish Sarah [Keane, incoming CEO] and the team continued growth and success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/clye0g1pkqeo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, Richard Holdsworth &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}