Lorcan Tucker had a couple of reasons to be cheerful on the four-hour bus journey from Colombo to Kandy over the weekend, where Ireland will play Zimbabwe in what will probably be their final game at the T20 World Cup. Long odds, maybe, but there is still a pathway into the last eight for the Boys in Green that requires four results to go their way. Little’s return of 3-16 from four quality overs against Oman was exactly the reaction his team would have been hoping for after the left-arm speedster was overlooked for the first two matches of the tournament. The 26-year-old has gone off the boil since winning a mega-bucks IPL contract off the back of his performances at the 2022 T20 World Cup but when he gets it right, as he did on Saturday, he is still Ireland’s most potent weapon. “Whether I play or not, it’s not up to me, but I’d love to be around that set-up.”

Source: Irish Independent February 15, 2026 14:17 UTC