Northern Universities Student Club Community Cricketers Elite today unveiled it would host the ‘Hilton Newcastle Gateshead Tri Nation Championship’ from June 22-26 at Ashbrooke Sports Club, Sunderland.

Six matches will be spread over five tough days of competition with a three way battle for national pride and cricketing reputation with the students representing “England”, hot favourites “Scotland” represented by their national academy and ICC Associate Champions “Ireland” by Leinster Cricket Union, the countries premier cricketing province.

All teams will be treated to a 5 star week by Ashbrooke Sports Club and this year the touring teams have the added bonus of staying in the luxury surroundings of the Hilton Newcastle Gateshead after their General Manager Guy Hilton announced an open invitation for the teams to use the hotel as their base.

Scotland lead by current International Craig Wright start as hot favourites having turned their academy into a semi professional set up. Their players have prepared for the tournament by spending three months in Australia and now compete on a weekly basis in the Scotland Premier League cricket league already producing some significant league wins.

Leinster headed up by former Ireland U19 manager Brían O’Rourke pack some formidable names of the future with Kevin O’Brien one of the current Ireland Internationals and recently signed to Notts CCC one of their tours most notable graduates. They always look to add in cultural activities to their tours so have trips to the Stadium of Light, St James Park, Angel of the North and Durham CCC ground already booked in. However, most notable has been their offer to host a masterclass for all the cricketing juniors in the Ashbrooke area to join with hosts NUSC aim of developing cricket in the city.

John D Holland, NUSC Director of Cricket added “we are again honoured to be hosting these fine sides in the North East and for the first time at the “Lords of the North” in Ashbrooke. No doubt we start as underdogs against a semi professional national academy from Scotland and a highly tuned Ireland squad featuring all the forthcoming stars of their national team. However, upsets can happen in sport and we are focused on securing a scalp to show Europe the cricketing talent in the North East of England. We would welcome any and all support the North East can give us in our forthcoming challenges”

To find out more details on NUSC visit www.nusc-ccelite.play-cricket.com or www.cricketworld.com/nuscccelite - special match coverage is available via the clubs members only website. For more details including log on details contact nusc-ccelite @ o2.co.uk

Coach

Brían O’Rourke

Manager

Nigel Pyne

• Eoghan Conway (Rush) Capt.
• Adam Coughlan (Malahide)
• Jordan Coghlan (Clontarf)
• Adrian D’Arcy (Clontarf)
• George Dockrell (Leinster)
• Ryan Hopkins (Pembroke)
• Dhruv Kapoor (Railway Union)
• Hugo Mays (Railway Union)
• Barry McCarthy (Pembroke)
• Hugh McDonnell (Leinster)
• Conor Sheil (North County)
• Eddie Richardson (North County)

Tuesday 23rd June

Leinster v’s Scotland 1200 (Sunderland CC)
Scotland U19s 192-7 from 40 overs (E Chalmers 58, G Dockrell 3-20)
Leinster Dev 193-5 from 39.3 overs (R Hopkins 106, A D'arcy 31, C Shiel 19*)
Leinster won by 5 wickets.
Leinster Junior Coaching Masterclass 1800

Wednesday 24th June

NUSC v’s Leinster 1015 (Sunderland CC)
Northern Universities 171-9 from 40 overs (C Youldron 51, J Coghlan 3-29, G Dockrell 2-31)
Leinster Dev 86 all out from 31 overs (G Dockrell 26*, G Darwin 3-12)
Northern Universities won by 85 runs.
T-20 Durham v’s Lancashire (Riverside)

Thursday 25th June

T-20 NUSC v’s Leinster 1015 (Sunderland CC)
Northern Universities 171-8 from 20 overs (T Ullyott 52, J Coghlan 3-33, C Shiel 2-30, A Coghland 2-38)
Leinster 141-7 from 20 overs (A D'arcy 24, H Mays 19, G Dcokrell 15)
Northern Universities won by 30 runs.
T-20 Scotland v’s Leinster 1330 (Sunderland CC)
Scotland U19s 165-8 from 20 overs (F Coleman 34, G Dockrell 3-16, H McDonnell 2-27)
Leinster 137-8 from 20 overs (D Kapoor 55, R Hopkins 28)
Scotland won by 28 runs

Friday 26th June

Leinster training session at Riverside, Durham CCC