A boost for Women's Cricket in Northern Ireland has perhaps brought the dream of competing in the Commonwealth Games a step closer.

In a recent interview NCU CEO Paddy Grimes indicated that Women’s cricket was very much on his radar saying:

“Women’s cricket is only going to grow. Our biggest challenge is to get buy-in from Cricket Ireland to try and develop girls’ cricket here. I think it’s a disgrace our top girls have to go to Dublin to get noticed by the Ireland selectors.”

“We definitely need a northern team playing in the Super Series (the Women’s inter-provincial) and a mechanism so that the North can play an active role in the pathway for girls’ cricket in Ireland because at the moment we don’t have it.”

“I have also had conversations with Alison Moffitt, the chef de Mission of this year’s Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games team, and trying to get a cricket team into the next Games must be a target.”

Perhaps that target is one step closer with the expected announcement of the addition of a predominately Northern Ireland based squad to the Women’s Super Series.

The ‘Super 3s’ was reduced to a Two-team competition, Scorchers versus Typhoons, for last season but an announcement of three squads is believed to be imminent, the Dragons comprising for the most part, players from both the NCU and NWCU.

A very welcome development for the Women’s game in Northern Ireland and perhaps Alison Moffitt will be getting another knock on her door in the near future from NCU and North West officials to remind her that a Northern Ireland Men’s Team competed in Kuala Lumpur in 1998 and perhaps it is time that the NI Women had a similar opportunity.