MEN’S FOOTBALL: It’s a top of the table clash in the League of Ireland tomorrow evening when Shamrock Rovers visit a Derry team that are five points behind in second but have a game in hand. Shamrock are unbeaten in their last six games. Elsewhere tonight defending champions Shelbourne host bottom club Sligo Rovers, third-placed Bohemians travel to Drogheda, Galway face struggling Cork City and Waterford are in Dublin to face St Patrick’s.

BOXING: Three weight world champion Terri Harper defends her WBO lightweight title against unbeaten German Natalie Zimmerman in Doncaster tomorrow evening. On the same bill home-town boxer Maxi Hughes takes on Archie Sharp for the WBC’s Silver lightweight title, Tysie Gallagher fights Ebonie Jones for the British and Commonwealth super bantamweight belts and James Flint meets Malta’s Haithem Laamouz for the IBO Continental super lightweight crown.

MEN’S RUGBY UNION: Bath face 2022’s champions Lyon in the European Challenge Cup final tonight at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium. The West Country club are 15 points clear in the English Premiership while Lyon are floundering just four places from the bottom of the French Top 14. Bath last won the trophy in 2008, when they beat Worcester at the Kingsholm stadium, and have been runners up on three occasions.

WOMEN’S CRICKET: England take a 1-0 lead into the second leg of their three match Twenty20 series against the West Indies at Hove tomorrow. Despite the tourists’ captain Hayley Matthews smashing 16 fours and a six in an unbeaten century the Windies were restricted to 146-7 in Wednesday’s opening match and England comfortably reached their target for the loss of just two wickets with three and a half overs to spare.