Travis Head is captaining Australia for the match after Mitchell Marsh missed the encounter due to injury.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
After winning the toss, Australia captain Travis Head said, \"Yeah, there have been a couple (niggles), unfortunately. Marsh copped a blow at training a couple of days ago, and no one\u2019s been willing to massage it out for him. So he\u2019s the unfortunate one. The rest is the same. We should have a couple of boys back for our Pakistan series. But yeah, it\u2019s a strong team, and we\u2019re looking forward to it.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"We spoke as a group, probably 18 months ago, about a 19-block game series leading into this. So we\u2019ve looked at those 19 games as a block. The Pakistan series didn\u2019t go our way, but we\u2019ve got an opportunity now. We\u2019ve been playing some really good cricket over the last 12 to 18 months, and that becomes important in a tournament like this,\" he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
After losing the toss, Paul Stirling said, \"We would have batted as well, to be honest. Look, the games come thick and fast. We haven\u2019t had much time to train things through. So it\u2019s about a fresh start again. There were some obvious errors that we\u2019ll try to cut out today.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"Having played here in our last game, knowing the conditions hopefully works to our advantage. From our perspective, I think it does. We don\u2019t take anything away from the Australian side, but knowing the conditions and how the pitch might react probably gives us a slight edge. We've gone with the same side,\" he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Playing XIs<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"Having played here in our last game, knowing the conditions hopefully works to our advantage. From our perspective, I think it does. We don\u2019t take anything away from the Australian side, but knowing the conditions and how the pitch might react probably gives us a slight edge. We've gone with the same side,\" he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Ireland: Paul Stirling (c), Ross Adair, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker (wk), Curtis Campher, Benjamin Calitz, George Dockrell, Gareth Delany, Mark Adair, Barry McCarthy, Matthew Humphreys<\/p>\r\n\r\n