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At the end of a momentous week for Cricket Ireland the Hanley Energy Inter-Provincial T20’s continue in their usual Friday night slot.
The Northern Knights host the Leinster Lightning, at Instonians CC captained by James Shannon. Craig Lewis, Jamie Magowan, James McCollum and Lee Nelson have been added to the squad that played against the North West Warriors in Strabane. Stephen Bunting is unavailable due to injury.

The Lightning selectors have opted for a largely unchanged squad. Kevin O’Brien and Tyrone Kane return to the T20 squad having missed last week’s victory over the Munster Reds through injury. Andrew Balbirnie misses out with a reoccurrence of his hip injury sustained during the current 3-day match in Oak Hill.

Meanwhile at Eglinton the North West Warriors host the Munster Reds. The Reds make just one change with Morne Bauer unavailable. The Warriors make three changes to the team that drew with Leinster in the 3-Day championship match at Oak Hill this week.

At the halfway stage of the IP20 series Leinster Lightning lead the way with fourteen points, with the Northern Knights in third place with four points. Leinster Lightning defeated the Northern Knights in Dublin by seven wickets on the 9th June.

Hanley Energy Inter-Provincial T20

Northern Knights v Leinster Lightning, at Shaw’s Bridge, Belfast, 5pm

Northern Knights
James Shannon (c)
Adam Dennison
Shane Getkate
Gary Kidd
Craig Lewis
Graeme McCarter
James McCollum
Robert McKinley
Jamie Magowan (wk)
Jacob Mulder
Lee Nelson
Greg Thompson

Leinster Lightning
John Anderson (c) (Merrion)
Peter Chase (Malahide)
Gareth Delany (Leinster)
George Dockrell (Dublin University / Leinster)
Bobby Gamble (YMCA)
Tyrone Kane (Merrion)
Kevin O’Brien (Railway Union)
Eddie Richardson (North County)
Andrew Sheridan (North County)
Simi Singh (YMCA)
Max Sorensen (The Hills)
Lorcan Tucker (w/k) (Pembroke)

North West Warriors v Munster Reds, Eglinton, 5pm

North West Warriors

A McBrine
S Thompson
C Young
D Rankin
W McClintock
J Thompson
A Britton
S Lazars
RL Dougherty
G Kennedy
D Scanlon
R Allen

Munster Reds
Stephan Grobler capt. (Cork County),
David Delany (National Academy/Clontarf),
Arslan Anwar (Co Kerry),
Muhammad Saddique (Cork County),
Yaqoob Ali (Co Kerry),
Robert Forrest (Clontarf),
Nicolaas Pretorius (Phoenix),
Rory Anders (National Academy/Phoenix),
Jamie Grassi (National Academy/North County),
Max Neville (National Academy/Merrion),
Harry Tector (National Academy/YMCA),
Jack Tector (National Academy/YMCA).

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