The Youth Inter-Provincial Series begins this week, with the NCU, NWCU, LCU and a Southern XI all competing.
Both the under 13 and under 15 competitions start this week, with the under 15’s taking place in Leinster and the under 13’s all travelling to the NCU for games on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of July.
The under 15 games will take place on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Leinster, with games being hosted at Pembroke, Phoenix, Civil Service, North County and Rush respectively.
Leinster have named a strong squad, captained by Pembroke fast bowler Josh Little, whilst his club-mate Aaron O’Neill will captain the Southern XI which includes players from Cork and Limerick as the game continues to grow in Munster.
The first day of competition will see the Southern XI and Leinster face-off, while the NCU, captained by Johnny Browne of Ballymena will face the NWCU.
Leinster will then face the NCU on Tuesday before rounding off the series with a fixture against the NWCU at Rush on Wednesday.
After facing Leinster on Tuesday the NCU will round off their fixtures against the Southern XI.
Leinster Squad
Josh Little; Ian Anders; Eoin Barron; Sean Currie; JJ Garth; Harry Archer; Stuart Jackson; Stephen Keane; Rory McGovern; Max Neville; Aviral Shukla; Harry Tector; Andrew Vincent
Southern XI Squad
Aaron O’Neill; Andrew Brawders; Aaron Cawley; Sanil Gupta; Cian Nulty; Shane O’Brien; Neil Rock; Sean Stanton; Diarmuid Tucker; Kaasim Alam Baloch; Diurmuid Carey; Seanan Jones; Sufyan Khan
NCU Squad
Johnny Browne; Max Burton; Jack Carson; Matthew Foster; Callum Gibson; John Glass; Peter McCreery; James McClean; Bradley McNamara; Ben Rose; Charlie Shannon; Jonathan Waite; Harry Warke
NWCU Squad
Marc McCloskey; James Colhoun; Jacob Logan Wilson; Varun Chopra; Marcus Poskitt; Matthew Hutchison; William Finlay; Gregory McFaul; Reece Logue; Patrick Carson; Jack MacBeth; Jamie McCombe
Fixtures:
29 June: NCU v NWCU – Malahide
29 June: LCU v Southern XI – Sydney Parade
30 June: LCU v NCU – Civil Service
30 June: NWCU v Southern XI – Phoenix
1 July: LCU v NWCU – Kenure
1 July: NCU v Southern XI – Inch
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