Ireland vs Papua New Guinea Head to Head Stats & Records in T20I Cricket

Ireland vs Papua New Guinea Head to Head in T20I Cricket

Ireland and Papua New Guinea have played 4 T20 International matches against each other, the first in 2015 and the latest on 9 February 2016. Ireland have won 2 and Papua New Guinea 2. Neither side leads - they are level on 2 wins apiece. Ireland's highest total against Papua New Guinea is 123, against a best of 124 the other way. At the other end of the scale Ireland have been held to 105 and Papua New Guinea to 89. Every one of those matches sits in the table above, with its winner, margin and venue. Updated 9 September, 2026.

Read a T20 head-to-head with a little more care than you would a Test or ODI one. The format has only been official since February 2005, when Australia beat New Zealand in Auckland, and it had no global tournament until the World T20 in South Africa two years later. Almost every rivalry here therefore rests on a much smaller sample than the same two teams have built up in the longer formats, and one three-match series can turn a record round that took a decade to build. The pool widened again in January 2019, when the ICC granted full T20I status to all of its members and fixtures that would once have gone unrecorded started counting.

Context matters as much as the raw count. A bilateral T20I is often played by an experimental side at the fag end of a tour; a World Cup or Asia Cup game is played by first-choice XIs with everything riding on it. The table shows which competition each match belonged to, so you can separate the two. Toss and venue carry unusual weight over twenty overs as well, particularly under lights where dew makes any total harder to defend. Rain-affected games go to DLS once both sides have faced five overs, and anything level after twenty each is settled by a Super Over - which is why so few modern T20Is finish without a winner.