New faces dominate Ireland squads

Ireland have a number of players in the squad who are yet to feature for the national team -- 10 in fact -- and their coach Heinrich Malan said they needed to find the right balance in approach in white-ball and red-ball formats as Ireland squads for the three ODIs, three T20Is and a lone Test was announced yesterday.

"We're not going to try and play like anyone else, we'll play our own way and that is the key message within our environment at the moment. We have a group of players who like to play an aggressive style in white-ball cricket that people like to watch, but in red ball it's finding that balance," Heinrich was quoted as saying in a press release from the Ireland cricket board.

Ireland have shown what they possess in the white-ball formats but their Test nous is only three games long. But in Peter Moor, they have someone with experience of playing Tests in Bangladesh.

Zimbabwe-born Moor played the two-Test series in Sylhet and Dhaka with Zimbabwe and has been named in the Ireland squad. Seamer Josh Little, who picked up 39 wickets last year and was named in ICC's T20I team of the year, has only been named in the ODI squad due to IPL obligations while skipper Andrew Balbirnie, currently playing in the BPL, will lead the side in all three formats.