LEINSTER Lightning will have to do without their English-based players for the Newstalk Interpro starting in Bready today.

George Dockrell and Andy Balbirnie are in action with Somerset and Middlesex, but Kevin O'Brien is available as Surrey don't have a T20 game midweek.

Although the rain is set to have a decisive say in the result, Trent Johnston and his selectors are taking the opportunity to take a look at some uncapped talent.

Tyrone Kane and Ben Ackland of Merrion, and YMCA's Simranjit Singh will hope show what they can do, while Bill Coghlan again steps back into the three-day arena.

As Ireland don't have any four-day games this year Alex Cusack has been omitted from the squad.

The Warriors have called up two professionals based in the region, South African batsman/spinner Ernest Kemm and Pakistani paceman Tabish Khan.

Kemm will open instead of David Rankin who broke a thumb while fielding in the Warriors' defeat at The Hills earlier this month.


Warriors: A McBrine (Donemana, capt), D Barr, E Kemm, C Young (Bready), R Chopra, N McDonnell (Coleraine), R-L Dougherty (Donemana), T Khan, J Milligan (Fox Lodge), A Riddles (Ardmore), J Thompson (Brigade), S Thompson (Eglinton)

Lightning: J Mooney (North County, capt), J Anderson, B Ackland, T Kane (Merrion), B Coghlan, A Poynter (Clontarf), P Collins, K O'Brien (Railway), F McAllister (Malahide), E Richardson (North Co), M Sorensen (The Hills), S Singh (YMCA)