India vs Ireland T20I Head-to-Head: Record & Results

Ten Twenty20 internationals, eight won by India and two by Ireland, and the two Irish wins came three days apart in June 2026 at the Civil Service Cricket Club at Stormont. Before that week Ireland had lost all eight meetings across seventeen years, several of them heavily, and had never beaten India in any format of the game.

The ledger therefore splits neatly in two. From Trent Bridge in June 2009 to Nassau County in June 2024, Ireland lost eight matches and only one of them was close. Then at Belfast on 26 and 28 June 2026 they won by 34 runs and by one run, took the series 2-0, and ended India's run of sixteen consecutive Twenty20 international series wins.

Eight of the ten matches have been played in Ireland, all but the 2026 pair at The Village in Malahide, north of Dublin. The other two were at global tournaments: the 2009 World Twenty20 in England and the 2024 edition in New York. Ireland have never hosted India in a one-day international series, and the three ODIs the sides have played are covered on the India versus Ireland ODI record page.

All ten matches

Date	Ground	Match	Result
10 Jun 2009	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	World T20	Ireland 112/8; India 113/2 (15.3). India by 8 wickets
27 Jun 2018	Malahide, Dublin	1st T20I	India 208/5; Ireland 132/9. India by 76 runs
29 Jun 2018	Malahide, Dublin	2nd T20I	India 213/4; Ireland 70 (12.3). India by 143 runs
26 Jun 2022	Malahide, Dublin	1st T20I	Ireland 108/4 (12); India 111/3 (9.2). India by 7 wickets
28 Jun 2022	Malahide, Dublin	2nd T20I	India 225/7; Ireland 221/5. India by 4 runs
18 Aug 2023	Malahide, Dublin	1st T20I	Ireland 139/7; India 47/2 (6.5). India by 2 runs (DLS)
20 Aug 2023	Malahide, Dublin	2nd T20I	India 185/5; Ireland 152/8. India by 33 runs
5 Jun 2024	Nassau County, New York	T20 World Cup	Ireland 96 (16.0); India 97/3 (12.2). India by 8 wickets
26 Jun 2026	Stormont, Belfast	1st T20I	Ireland 182/9; India 148 (18.5). Ireland by 34 runs
28 Jun 2026	Stormont, Belfast	2nd T20I	Ireland 154/8; India 153/9. Ireland by 1 run

Belfast, June 2026

India arrived at Stormont with a squad captained by Shreyas Iyer, leading in the format for the first time, in the first fixtures of a new cycle after the World Cup. Ireland handed debuts to two players in the series, Matt Hollard and Jai Moondra, and both finished it holding an individual award.

In the first match Ireland batted and made 182 for 9. India were bowled out for 148 in 18.5 overs. Hollard took three wickets for 28 and the award, and Ireland had beaten India for the first time in any format, at the ninth attempt in Twenty20 internationals.

The second, two days later, was tighter than any match in the fixture has been. Ireland made 154 for 8 and India finished on 153 for 9 — one short, with a wicket in hand. Moondra took the award and, at the end of it, the player-of-the-series award as well. The 2-0 result was India's first Twenty20 international series defeat in three years and broke a sequence of sixteen series wins.

Two details give the week its proportion. Ireland won both matches with totals under 185, which is well below what they conceded in Dublin in 2018 and 2022; and India lost both while chasing, which is the mode in which they have historically been most secure. Stormont, in late June, offered enough seam movement in the first hour to make 155 a competitive figure, and Ireland bowled to that rather than trying to bat India out of the game.

The 143-run win at Malahide

The other end of the range is 29 June 2018. India made 213 for 4 and bowled Ireland out for 70 in 12.3 overs, winning by 143 runs. It remains the largest margin in the fixture by some distance and one of the largest India have recorded against anyone.

That series was played at the front of an England tour, and India's side was close to full strength. KL Rahul took the award for the second match; Kuldeep Yadav had taken it in the first, with four wickets, having found conditions at Malahide entirely to his liking. India's two totals in that series, 208 for 5 and 213 for 4, were the two highest either side had made in the fixture until 2022.

The 225 and the four-run finish

The highest-scoring match in the record is 28 June 2022 at Malahide. India made 225 for 7 and Ireland replied with 221 for 5 — 446 runs in forty overs, and a four-run margin at the end of it.

Deepak Hooda made 104 for India in that innings, the only century by either side in the fixture, and took the award. Ireland's reply was built on partnerships that kept them ahead of the rate for long stretches, and India needed the last over to close it. That match is the reason the aggregate figures in this fixture look healthier for Ireland than the 8-2 ledger suggests: 221 for 5 chasing 226 is a considerably better performance than most of the eight defeats.

Leading run scorers

All ten matches are covered by the complete ball-by-ball record, so these are full-fixture aggregates rather than a partial cut.

Player	Side	Runs	Balls	Highest
Rohit Sharma	India	201	145	97
Harry Tector	Ireland	176	150	64
Andrew Balbirnie	Ireland	161	123	72
Deepak Hooda	India	151	86	104
Sanju Samson	India	123	74	77

Rohit Sharma leads on aggregate without ever having made a hundred against Ireland; his 97 came in the 2018 series. Hooda's 151 runs came from two innings. On the Irish side Tector and Balbirnie have both been consistent across several series without producing the single decisive innings, which is a fair summary of Ireland's position in the fixture before 2026.

Leading wicket takers

Bowler	Side	Wickets	Runs conceded	Best
Jasprit Bumrah	India	8	64	2
Arshdeep Singh	India	8	162	2
Yuzvendra Chahal	India	7	70	3
Kuldeep Yadav	India	7	37	4
Craig Young	Ireland	7	84	2

Jasprit Bumrah has taken eight wickets for 64 runs across three matches, the most economical return of anyone with more than four wickets in the fixture, and he took the individual award both at Malahide in 2023 and at New York in 2024. Kuldeep Yadav's seven wickets have cost 37 runs, a rate that reflects how difficult Irish batting orders have found wrist spin at Malahide.

Craig Young leads Ireland with seven, spread across four series. Hollard's three for 28 and Moondra's figures in the 2026 series are the best individual returns Ireland have produced against India, and both came on debut.

What the fixture looks like now

Ireland have played India ten times and beaten them twice, both times in the same week, and both times having batted first and defended a total in the 150-185 range. The pattern is not accidental: on the two occasions India were set a target on a green Belfast surface with a second-string batting order, they failed to reach it.

Whether the 2026 result marks a shift or a fortnight is the open question. Ireland's win came against an India side without most of the players who had won the World Cup three months earlier, at a ground India had never played at, in the first matches of a new captaincy. That is a set of circumstances Ireland will not always get. Set against it, Ireland won twice in three days and won the second by defending 154, which is not a scoreline you produce by accident.

For India the wider Twenty20 record and the leaderboards behind it sit on the most T20I runs for India and highest T20I team totals pages, and the game's structure in the country is covered on the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Every row in the results table, and every figure in the two aggregate tables, is derived from the ball-by-ball record of the ten matches themselves rather than from a summary database. All ten fall inside the period for which that record is complete and public, so the aggregates here are full-fixture figures and not a partial window.

Individual awards, captaincies and debuts are taken from the scorecard or the squad announcement for the relevant series. The claim that the June 2026 defeat ended a run of sixteen consecutive Indian series wins in the format, and that it was Ireland's first win over India in any format, follows the tour records published at the time; both are counts, not estimates.

Bowling figures exclude run-outs from the wicket column and count runs conceded off the bat and off wides and no-balls, but not byes and leg byes. Complete to the end of August 2026; no India-Ireland Twenty20 international has been played since 28 June 2026.