BAN vs IRE 2025: Ireland not too concerned with Bangladesh pitches, echoes Harry Tector

Ireland men's team player Harry Tector does not want his side to get too caught up on how the pitches will pan out during his team's tour of Bangladesh. During the tour, the Irish team will play a couple of Test matches before moving onto the shortest format of the game with a three-match T20I series.

The middle-order batter has backed the Irish batting unit for performing on any sort of pitch provided to them. He also hoped that Ireland will play better than the hosts themselves. Tector talked about how batters should just keep it simple by only assessing the conditions on the morning of the match itself and let the practice done beforehand manage the rest during batters' time in the middle.

“Everyone seems to have a take on what the pitches will be like in Bangladesh, but I think you can get caught up in that too much. I think you have to be prepared for everything. I'm not too concerned with what they produce. I back us to perform on it and, hopefully, out-perform them on those wickets," stated Tector, as quoted by ICC. 

"I think it's important as players - and particularly as batters - to just assess conditions on the morning of the game, what it looks like, what it's like overhead. Once you're out there reacting to what you think the pitch is doing with you, the practice you’ve put in is going to hold you in good stead for whatever the conditions and the bowlers dictate to you," he added.

The only time Ireland took on Bangladesh in a Test before was in 2023. The Tigers had emerged victorious by seven wickets on the back of a century and fifty by Mushfiqur Rahim. Meanwhile, Ireland last played the red-ball format earlier in the year. They pulled off a 63-run triumph while playing in Bulawayo.

Ireland's squad for the first Test: Andrew Balbirnie (c), Curtis Campher, Cade Carmichael, Stephen Doheny, Gavin Hoey, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Andy McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Liam McCarthy, Paul Stirling, Jordan Neill, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Craig Young