Crusaders' Iestyn Harris faces Challenge Cup reunion with Leeds
Iestyn Harris will take his Crusaders team to Leeds, where he was such a popular player a decade or so ago, in the only all-Super League tie of a Challenge Cup fourth-round draw which should hand most of the big guns a straightforward passage to the last 16. That is likely to be the televised tie on Saturday 7 May, but the BBC will have to show a Championship side for their Sunday match, probably the derby between Halifax and Bradford, which will be the Bulls' first visit to The Shay since the completion of the impressive new stand. Warrington, who have won the Cup for the past two seasons and are aiming to emulate the hat-trick St Helens achieved in the previous three years, are at home to Keighley, while the Super League champions Wigan face Barrow. Leigh may fancy their chances of causing an upset at home to the Catalan Dragons while Lézignan-Corbières, the other French club in the draw, also have to travel, to Featherstone Rovers. Carnegie Challenge Cup fourth round draw St Helens v Sheffield Eagles, York v Hull, KR Featherstone v Lézignan, London Skolars v Widnes, Leigh v Catalan Dragons, Wigan v Barrow, Leeds v Crusaders, Batley v Huddersfield, Dewsbury v Swinton, Halifax v Bradford, Hunslet v Salford, Rochdale v Castleford, Gateshead v Harlequins, Warrington v Keighley, Hull v Oldham, Doncaster v Wakefield. Ties to be played on the weekend of 7-8 May
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