MTB Northern Knights is a first-class provincial cricket team in

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. Along with the

North West Warriors North West Warriors is one of four provincial cricket teams in Ireland. Along with the Leinster Lightning, Northern Knights and Munster Reds, it makes up the Inter-Provincial Championship, Inter-Provincial Cup & Inter-Provincial Trophy. The tea ...

and

Leinster Lightning Leinster Lightning is one of three provincial cricket teams in Ireland. Along with the North West Warriors and Northern Knights it makes up the Inter-Provincial Championship, Interprovincial One-Day Trophy and Interprovincial Twenty20 Cup. T ...

it makes up the

Inter-Provincial Championship The Inter-Provincial Championship is a three-day cricket tournament in Ireland, played between regional teams drawn from three of Ireland's five provincial unions. It parallels first-class cricket tournaments in other countries such as the Count ...

, and with those teams and

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makes up the

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& Interprovincial Twenty20 Cup. The team represents

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which in turn covers most of eastern, southern and much of western

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History

In 2013,

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formed a three-day

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, featuring teams from

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, NCU and the

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. The NCU team is known as the Northern Knights. On 8 April, they announced Eugene Moleon as their coach and Gavin Rogers as his assistant coach. Up to and including the 2016 Inter-Provincial Championship, the matches were not given first-class status. However, at an

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meeting in October 2016, first-class status was awarded to all future matches. In January 2016,

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head of

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was appointed head coach of team replacing Eugene Moleon.

Current squad

* denotes players with international caps. *Current players are those announced in the core squad for the forthcoming 2021 Inter-Provincial season. ''Gary Wilson was named in the initial core squad but has since retired from professional cricket and become Head Coach and Pathway Manager for the North West Warrior

On 4 April, it was announced that Neil Rock would return to the Northern Knights as Wilson's replacemen

'

Grounds

References

External links

The Northern Cricket Union official websiteEuro Slam
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