India vs Ireland ODI Head-to-Head: Record & Results

India and Ireland have played three one-day internationals, in 2007, 2011 and 2015, and India have won all three. It is the smallest completed body of work in any of India's active fifty-over fixtures, and the reason is straightforward: no bilateral one-day series between the two countries has ever been arranged, so every meeting has been a tour fill-in or a World Cup pool match.

The three form a neat sequence. The first, at Belfast in June 2007, was a single ODI tacked onto a tour of England and Scotland, played four months after India's exit at the group stage of a World Cup. The second was a pool match at Bangalore in the 2011 tournament India went on to win. The third was a pool match at Hamilton in 2015, in a campaign that ended in the semi-finals.

Ireland's most competitive showing was the third of them. They made 259 at Seddon Park, which is a total that would have tested most sides in that tournament, and lost by eight wickets because Shikhar Dhawan made a hundred off 84 balls. The Twenty20 record between the sides is longer, closer and, since June 2026, no longer one-sided; it is on the India versus Ireland T20I record page.

All three matches

Date	Ground	Match	Result
23 Jun 2007	Stormont, Belfast	Only ODI	Ireland 193; India 171/1 (34.5). India by 9 wickets (DLS)
6 Mar 2011	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	World Cup, Group B	Ireland 207 (47.5); India 210/5 (46.0). India by 5 wickets
10 Mar 2015	Seddon Park, Hamilton	World Cup, Pool B	Ireland 259 (49.0); India 260/2 (36.5). India by 8 wickets

Ireland have batted first in all three. They have never passed 260 against India, and India have never lost more than five wickets chasing.

Belfast, 23 June 2007: a debut nobody saw

The fixture opened with a match that mattered more for who was in it than for what happened. India bowled Ireland out for 193 at the Civil Service Cricket Club, rain then held play up for more than two and a half hours, and India were set a revised 171 from 39 overs.

Gautam Gambhir made 80 not out and Sourav Ganguly 73, and the target was reached in 34.5 overs for the loss of one wicket. Gambhir took the award. Ireland gave debuts to three players.

India gave one, to Rohit Sharma, who was nineteen. Because India lost a single wicket and Rahul Dravid did not use his part-time bowlers, Rohit neither batted nor bowled — he fielded, and that was his first one-day international. He would go on to captain India and to hold the highest individual score in the format. The match is also the reason India's ODI record at Stormont is played one, won one, a figure that stood untouched for nineteen years until the Twenty20 series of June 2026 gave the ground a rather different Indian association.

Bangalore, 6 March 2011

Ireland's second meeting with India came at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in the group stage of the 2011 World Cup, nine days after they had chased 328 to beat England at the same ground — the highest successful pursuit in World Cup history at the time, built on Kevin O'Brien's fifty-ball hundred.

They could not repeat it. India bowled them out for 207 in 47.5 overs, and the wickets came from an unexpected source: Yuvraj Singh took 5 for 31 with his left-arm spin, his only five-wicket haul in one-day internationals. He then made an unbeaten fifty as India reached 210 for 5 in 46 overs, and took the award for the all-round performance.

It was the first time anyone had taken five wickets and made a half-century in the same World Cup match. Yuvraj finished that tournament with 362 runs and fifteen wickets and was named player of the tournament; the wider campaign, which ended with the trophy at the Wankhede, is covered on the India at the 2011 World Cup page.

The five-wicket margin flatters Ireland slightly less than it looks. India lost wickets in the middle overs but were never behind the required rate, and the chase took forty-six of the fifty available.

Hamilton, 10 March 2015

The best match of the three, and the only one in which Ireland set a genuinely competitive total. They made 259 in 49 overs at Seddon Park, Niall O'Brien top-scoring with 75 and William Porterfield making 67 from 93 balls, with Paul Stirling adding 42 at the top.

India's reply took 36.5 overs. Shikhar Dhawan reached his hundred from 84 balls with eleven fours and five sixes, Rohit Sharma made 64, and the eight-wicket margin was settled long before the end. Dhawan took the award. It was India's fifth win from five in that pool stage and part of a run in which they bowled out every opponent they faced in the tournament.

Ireland were the better-organised of the two Associate-era sides at that World Cup and had already beaten West Indies and Zimbabwe in it, but they missed the quarter-finals on net run rate. India's fifty-over history in full is on the India ODI history guide.

Aggregate performances

With only three matches the individual numbers are small, but all three fall inside the period for which the complete ball-by-ball record exists, so these are genuine fixture totals rather than a sample.

Player	Side	Runs	Balls	Highest
Niall O'Brien	Ireland	173	232	75
William Porterfield	Ireland	158	243	75
Shikhar Dhawan	India	100	85	100
Gautam Gambhir	India	90	122	80*
Virat Kohli	India	78	95	44

Ireland's two openers lead the run aggregate for the fixture, which is a function of India batting second in all three and losing eight wickets in total across the three chases. No Indian batter has faced more than 122 balls against Ireland in the format.

Bowler	Side	Wickets	Runs conceded	Best
Yuvraj Singh	India	5	31	5
Zaheer Khan	India	3	30	3
Mohammed Shami	India	3	41	3
S Sreesanth	India	3	50	3
Piyush Chawla	India	3	85	3

Yuvraj's five wickets all came in one spell at Bangalore and are the most anyone has taken against Ireland for India in the format. No Ireland bowler has taken more than two.

Why there has never been a series

Ireland were granted Full Member status in June 2017, which made them eligible for bilateral one-day series against the other Full Members, and in the years since they have hosted England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan for ODIs. India have not been among them.

Part of the answer is calendar arithmetic. India's fifty-over commitments are dense and heavily contracted, and the windows that do open — a short gap before or after an England tour — tend to be filled with Twenty20 matches, because that is the format Cricket Ireland can sell and stage most easily in an Irish summer. All four India tours of Ireland to date have been Twenty20-only.

The other part is that the Irish season is short and the weather is unhelpful for a fifty-over fixture: the 2007 match lost two and a half hours to rain and needed a revised target, and a three-match ODI series at Malahide or Stormont carries real risk of a washout. The economics of the tour, and how they shape which sides visit whom, are the same forces that govern India's scheduling elsewhere — the cricket in India hub sets out the wider picture, and the format leaderboards sit with most ODI runs for India and most ODI wickets for India.

If a series does happen, the 2026 Twenty20 result at Stormont has changed the framing. Ireland beat India twice in three days in that format, so a first ODI meeting since 2015 would not be the formality the three-match record implies.

Sources and method

All three matches are in the period covered by the complete public ball-by-ball record, so the results table and both aggregate tables are computed directly from the deliveries bowled rather than taken from a summary. That also means the aggregates are complete: there are no earlier India-Ireland one-day internationals that fall outside the window.

Match circumstances — the rain delay and revised target at Belfast, the debutants in that match, Yuvraj Singh's award at Bangalore, Dhawan's at Hamilton — are taken from the scorecard and match report for each game. Ireland's other results at the 2011 and 2015 World Cups are given for context and are drawn from the tournament records, not computed here.

Wicket counts exclude run-outs. Runs conceded include wides and no-balls but not byes and leg byes. Complete to the end of August 2026; no India-Ireland one-day international has been played since 10 March 2015, and none is listed in the published fixture calendar.