MEN’S ICE HOCKEY:

Challenge Cup holders Sheffield Steelers take a 5-3 advantage to Cardiff for Wednesday night’s semi-final second leg, while eight-time winners Nottingham, the most successful team in Challenge Cup history, visit Belfast for the first leg of their last four clash.

Belfast currently top the Elite League, nine points ahead of third-placed Nottingham, and have only lost once in their last eleven games.

MEN’S FOOTBALL:

Craig Gordon saved two spot kicks as Hearts beat St Mirren on penalties after extra time on Monday night to set up a home Scottish Cup quarter-final tie with Dundee.

Defending champions Celtic will host Hibernian, the Premiership’s bottom club St Johnstone visit Championship side Livingston and fellow second-tier team Queen’s Park, who knocked out Rangers in the last round, were drawn away to Aberdeen.

MEN’S CRICKET:

Left arm spinner Matthew Humphreys took 6-57 as Ireland beat Zimbabwe by 63 runs in their one-off test match in Bulawayo.

Ireland have now won their last three test matches, following last year’s victories against Afghanistan in Abu Dhabi and Zimbabwe in Belfast, and are ranked as the world’s tenth-best team.

Their tour continues in Harare on Friday with the first of three one-day and Twenty20 matches.

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The Champions League knockout round play-offs continue tomorrow evening with Club Brugge hosting an Atalanta team that only lost once during the group stage in the early kick off, before Feyenoord put the competition’s worst defensive record to the test against AC Milan.

Wednesday evening’s other fixtures see Monaco play Benfica and Celtic take on Bayern Munich in Glasgow. The second legs kick off in seven days’ time.