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Varun Chopra and Jared Wilson have been named in the Warriors squad for their trip to The Mardyke to take on Munster Reds next Tuesday.

The dispiriting defeat to Netherlands in the World Cup Super League series has raised far more questions than it produced answers.

ANDREW Balbirnie offered no excuses for Ireland’s 2-1 World Cup series Super League defeat by Netherlands and admitted the team are not playing with any consistency.

Ava Canning has been added to the Ireland Senior Women's performance squad, having accepted a non-retainer contract.

The Northern Knights final home game of the season against Munster Reds due to take place on Thursday has been postponed until June 30th.

IRELAND’S hopes of causing a upset and claiming an automatic qualifying spot for the 2023 World Cup are in tatters after they themselves were victims of a second shock defeat in three games against Netherlands.

Andrew Balbirnie was offering no excuses as he surveyed the wreckage of a World Cup qualifying campaign that is all but over for Ireland after a four-wicket defeat gave the Netherlands a 2-1 series victory.

Half centuries from captain Gaby Lewis and fellow Irish international Shauna Kavanagh led the Scorchers to a 105-run win over the Typhoons, completing a 4-1 series win in the Super 50 Cup at Pembroke.

Munster Heat have named their squad that will take part in the inaugural Emerging Interprovincial competition that gets under way later this month.

Gaby Lewis hit a brilliant century to lead her Scorchers side to the Super 50 Cup title with a convincing 140-run win against The Typhoons at Malahide.

Ireland Under 19's will be one of five teams in the new Emerging Interprovincial series, that will see each team play eight games, with the twenty matches split between T20 and 45-overs formats.

Ireland Women defeated Scotland 3-1 in their T20 International series this week, built mainly on fine bowling displays backed up by athletic fielding. The batting wasn't as impressive, with room to improve.

Three wickets in an over from Leah Paul, plus 49 from Gaby Lewis saw Ireland beat Scotland by six wickets at Stormont to seal a 3-1 series win.

The Full Member confirmed the dominance of their 61-run victory on Tuesday with an equally emphatic 41 runs success with the Ireland bowlers again proving too accurate for their visitors.

Orla Prendergast’s maiden century led her Typhoons side to victory by 33 runs in the Arachas Super 50 Cup at Rush.

Former Irish international Cecelia Joyce has come out of retirement to join the Typhoons squad for the rest of the 2021 Super Series.

William McClintock's brilliant 195 led Donemana to a convincing victory against Coleraine at The Holm.

Bobby Swarbrigg has a round-up from all the games on a busy day of action in Leinster.

Carrickfergus continued the form which saw the win the T20 Cup last week with a convincing eight-wicket win against North Down in the Premier League.

Irish internationals present and past were to the fore in the three Leinster Senior Women's games, no more so than Lara Maritz and Ava Canning as they helped Phoenix and Leinster to emphatic wins.

The local season takes a huge step forward tomorrow with the return of the NCU Premier League and the North West Premiership.

Andy McBrine is the only player who will miss the start of the Premiership on the day he was due to take over the captaincy of Donemana, for their Group B game against Coleraine.

There was double cause for celebration in North West cricketing circles after Ken Craig of Eglinton and Kieran Kennedy of O'Neills sports were honoured in the Queen's Birthday list.

The annual MCC week in Northern Ireland due to start next Tuesday has been cancelled.

Fingal's Under 13 cricketers got their season off to a winning start as they beat their Cork County counterparts by 38 runs.

There was cause for double celebration as Munster Club Limerick beat off tough opposition to win the Club of the Year award, while Michael Hickey won the Volunteering Excellence accolade.