Ten members of the Ireland squad who will be at the T20 World Cup qualifying tournament in Edinburgh next week are in action this weekend at the T20 inter-provincial festival in Bready.

Mark Adair leads the Northern Knights in the shortest format for the first time this season and brother Ross and Neil Rock, who captained the NCU side in the first festival in Cork back in May, are named in the 13-man squad.

Graham Hume and Craig Young will turn out for the North West Warriors – with Andy McBrine, who is not in the Ireland T20 squad resuming the captaincy - while Lorcan Tucker, Harry Tector and Barry McCarthy will be in action for Leinster Lightning. Curtis Campher and Ben White are in the Munster Reds squad but like most of the Scotland-bound internationals will play a maximum of two games across the weekend.

However, interim Ireland captain Paul Stirling and Lightning skipper George Dockrell have both opted to take a break while Cricket Ireland have taken Andrew Balbirnie and Josh Little out of the weekend and Gareth Delany is also an absentee.

The festival is the first chance for interim Leinster Lightning head coach Andre Botha to see his squad in action and it includes David Delany, who has returned from Australia, Simi Singh, now apparently a former international, who has returned from injury and Riley Mudford, Railway Union’s New Zealand professional.