Andrew White is hoping to add to his collection of five Challenge Cup medals as Instonians look to end a 13-year drought in the NCU’s blue riband competition.

Chris De Freitas and Tim Tector lead Lightning to a bonus point win over Munster Reds at The Mardyke.

Leinster put in a powerful display to beat Rush by 144 runs at Kenure, while there were victories for Pembroke against Phoenix and Malahide over Clontarf.

Northern Knights claimed their second bonus point of the week with a resounding 109 runs victory over North West Warriors in the first match of day 3.

MCC continued their Northern Ireland tour with an 18-run win against a young Emerging Warriors squad at Ardmore.

Dragons won the SS50 Series with a crushing victory over Scorchers at Wallace Park with Amy Hunter and Orla Prendergast the stars.

An Amy Hunter century and five wickets for Orla Prendergast led the Dragons to the Super 50 title with a record-breaking 274-run win over the Scorchers at Wallace Park.

RBAI made it 14 wins in the Schools' Cup, completing a hat-trick of wins in their fifth consecutive final. 

John Elder pays a personal tribute to CricketEurope founder member and former Scotland Editor David Potter, who died at the weekend.

A fairly predictable day’s Topklasse cricket, with the top four sides proceeding to comfortable victories over the bottom four, ended in disgraceful drama.

Wins for the Northern Knights and NW Warriors on the opening day in Cork.

Three super overs are needed to separate the two sides in today's T20I in Glasgow.

ALANA Dalzell hit an unbeaten 46 to propel Bready to the top of the North West Women’s Premiership with a surprisingly convincing eight-wicket win over defending champions Fox Lodge.

THERE will be a new name on the Lagan Valley Steels T20 Cup after Cliftonville Academy and Instonians reached next month's decider with victories over CIYMS and CSNI at Belmont.

Matthew Humphreys was the one shining light for Ireland in Co Tyrone as the Boys in Green suffered a 62-run shellacking by the West Indies in a high-octane T20 international at the fast-scoring Bready ground.

Ireland squad members will miss a day of inter-provincial action after all this summer. The 14 players involved in Sunday’s T20 international against West Indies at Bready will sit out the first day of this week’s T20 festival in Cork.

Heriot’s completed a resounding 215-run DLS Scottish Cup win over West of Scotland in the weekend's only senior match to beat the weather.

The North West have named their squad for this week's three-day T20 interpro series in Cork, as well as an Emerging Warriors team to play MCC at Ardmore on Thursday.

Ballyspallen moved to second place in the Championship table with a 10-wicket demolition of Bonds Glen.

The T20 Cup final will be between Cliftonville Academy and Instonians, while the Trophy will have Bangor and Cregagh in opposition.

There were wins for Pembroke, Clontarf and North County while the other tie had to be postponed.

Holders Brigade are safely through to the Faughan Valley Cup final after an eight-wicket win over Eglinton. 

There was sad news overnight with the death of Roy McBrine at the age of 74 following a long battle with cancer.

It was a loss/win for Instonians on Friday night as CIYMS clinched the last place in Sunday’s NCU T20 semi-finals.

Josh Little has joined Ireland’s ever-growing injury list and been forced to withdraw from the three-match T20 international series against the West Indies that gets underway in Co Tyrone today.

George Munsey gets close to the first ODI double century by an associate player but the Dutch chase 369 in another last over finish.

Ian Callender gives his thoughts on this year's Final which will be at Wallace Park on Friday at 1.00pm

That victory was in no small part down to the exploits of their Indian overseas professional Anuj Jotin, whose match-winning unbeaten 77 took his season tally to 412 runs, as well as claiming 17 wickets.

IRISH Universities participated in the Hone McGregor Trophy in glorious conditions in Fenner’s this week, but left with the wooden spoon after two four-wicket defeats.

Tom Johnson played a starring role for Irish Universities in their opening clash with St Andrew's, but in a losing cause as the Scottish side prevailed by four wickets.

The Quarter-final draws for the Irish Senior and National Cups see eight games go south of the border.

Ireland lost their annual challenge match against their English counterparts by five wickets on Tuesday at High Wycombe.

Ninth-placed VOC sprang the surprise of the season so far with a hard-fought three-wicket victory over leaders Kampong on Monday.

Seven years after the idea for a European franchise tournament was first floated, the latest iteration has been postponed. We were told unequivocally that this time would be different.

Dragons leapfrogged Scorchers to resume their position at the top of the table with a century from Orla Prendergast the key to their 46 runs win at Oak Hill.

Irish universities have named their squad for their tour to Cambridge next week to play in the Hone McGregor Trophy between Cambridge University and University of St Andrews Scotland. 

Carrick win on the last ball, while there are also wins for Adamstown, Ballyspallen, Glendermott, Terenure, County Galway and Laois.

Donemana and Malahide win in last over, while there are also victories for North County, CIYMS, Pembroke, Clontarf, Balbriggan and Lisburn.

UCD Gold retained the Trevor West Trophy after a commanding 135-run victory over UCD Blue in the final of the Irish Universities Outdoor Competition, held at College Park.

Clontarf win again, while there were also wins for Merrion, North County, and Rush on a day when rain saw the games at Pembroke and Railway Union abandoned.

New name but same old problems for Ireland as the ETPL won't be happening in 2025.

Ireland's injury concerns continue with three changes to the originally named squad for next week's T20I series against the West Indies at Bready.

Following last weekend’s two close run things versus St. Columba’s and Chapelizod The Leprechauns crank it up a gear this Wed. 4/6 with our annual College Park visit to take on the Irish Universities (‘k.o’ 1pm).

An entertaining day of Premiership cricket saw wins for Pembroke, Phoenix, Leinster, Balbriggan, Railway Union and Rush.

The draw has been made for the last eight of the Ulster Plate.

The Super Series served up a thriller at Oak Hill on Sunday as 50-over champions Scorchers produced a record chase to beat Typhoons by four wickets.

Six North West sides are through to the last eight of the Ulster Plate, with Woodvale and North Down flying the flag for the NCU.

Jordan Neill says if he faced the same situation when playing for Ireland, he would not hesitate to do it again, even though it ended his first appearance for his adopted country just 21 overs into last Sunday’s one-day international against West Indies.

Boyd Rankin has named his Emerging Warriors squad for next week's friendly clash with the Emerging Knights.

This article first appeared on CricketEurope exactly five years ago today. It's a superb piece of writing by Peter Prendergast who died earlier this month.

MCC continued their tour of Ireland with a 36-run win against Munster Heat at Farmers Cross on Tuesday.

After four successive defeats to Ireland, it was no surprise that the West Indians came back hard in the third game of their ODI series in Clontarf. In a game interrupted by showers, the tourists came out on top by a whopping 197 runs to share the series 1-1.

Amy Hunter scored a wonderful century to lead the Dragons to a 19-run DLS win over the Typhoons in a rain-affected Super Series interpro at Waringstown.

Paul Stirling became the first Ireland batsman to score 6,000 one-day international runs but that’s about all the skipper had to cheer as his side were soundly beaten by the West Indies at Clontarf and had to settle for a 1-1 drawn series.

There are some intriguing clashes in the second round National Cup draw with 2014 winners Carrickfergus at home to Fox Lodge in one of the ties of the round.

Bella Armstrong and Rebecca Lowe’s record partnership led the Dragons to a seven wicket win in the Super Series50 interpro at Lisburn.

Deryck Vincent pays an emotional tribute to his great friend Peter Prendergast who died earlier this week.

WILLIAM McClintock’s amazing century off 30 balls for Donemana against Killyclooney last night – 10 fours and 9 sixes – could well be the fastest ever scored in Ireland.

Harlequins had just enough in the batting tank to beat fierce rivals Cork County in their Munster Premier League match at Farmers Cross.

Cricket Ireland are receiving more money than ever, yet this summer is the most barren for senior internationals in a generation. Last week's dreadful interpro stream was the latest cutback. Where are they spending their money? Nathan Johns delves in.

Lloyd Tennant will take up the Head Coach role for Ireland Women from June 1st, replacing Ed Joyce.

Bryan O'Donnell will succeed Donna Armstrong as Cricket Ireland President, taking office in 2026.

Associate Ireland spent years crying out for Full Member fixtures but since their promotion to the top table they've become what they used to hate.

The World Cup Qualifier has demonstrated that women's cricket has outgrown an eight - or even ten - team World Cup.

Surrey has confirmed the signing of Irish international Amy Hunter.

Laura Delany scampered a leg-bye off the final ball of a thriller against Scotland in Lahore last night to give Ed Joyce a winning send off at the end of his six years as Ireland head coach.

Leah Paul hammered 67 not out from 40 balls, and Gaby Lewis and Amy Hunter both scored half-centuries in Lahore yesterday as Ireland worked off some of their World Cup qualifying frustrations with a 46-run victory over Thailand.

Ireland managed to beat Thailand by 46 runs to get their first win of the qualifiers but it was too little, too late.

Ireland threw away a winning position for the third time in five days in Lahore last night and their hopes of qualifying for the 50-overs World Cup are over after another heartbreaking loss to Bangladesh by two wickets.

Ireland Under 19s finished their Zimbabwe tour on a high and denied the hosts a clean sweep in the five-match YODI series in Harare.

There may have been a change of venue but it was a familiar tale of woe for Ireland Under 19's as they lost again to Zimbabwe in the fourth match of their youth ODI series.

Pembroke's Dan Murray led a spirited Irish fightback but it was in vain as Zimbabwe edged the third youth ODI by two wickets to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.

Zimbabwe Under 19s took a 2-0 lead in the five-match series against Ireland U19 with a ultimately comfortable 12 runs victory.

The countdown to next year’s Under 19 World Cup started for Ireland in one of the two host countries with a four wickets defeat by Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club.

Pembroke's Olly Riley will captain a 14-player squad that has been selected for an upcoming tour of Zimbabwe in what will also be a first tour for the side in the southern African country.