The teams are locked in, finishing touches being put on the pitch and lights ready to roll as Armidale Cricket prepares for their annual Twenty20 tournament.
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The first round of the Bing Lee Big Bash will light up the sportsground on Friday night.
The annual competition has proved popular with players and spectators alike and association president Mike Porter is expecting it to be a blast once again.
“At the end of the day it doesn't matter who wins or loses but they all strive to win, there is no doubt about that,” he told The Armidale Express.
“I think it is the fun aspect of it, under lights with the white ball.
“It is just another avenue for these guys to enjoy their cricket.
“At the end of the day that is the job I have been empowered with our committee to try and “give the players the cricket they want.”
First up at 5.30pm will see New England Sheds take on the returning Ray White Rural-Cressbrook Merino team.
The second match of the night will be a grand final rematch with champions Um, Yep coming up against Sportspower.
Porter said it has been well supported.
“Numbers for nominations were pretty good, it took a while for some of the clubs to get around to submitting their lists but once we did we had quite sufficient numbers for four teams, let alone three,” he said.
“A few blokes have made themselves available that haven't in the past.
“The sponsors are on board, we don't have a major sponsor which is pretty sad.
“They are the overall sponsor for the association but normally we have an individual sponsor for the T20 but that is alright, we will make it a bigger and better thing for them.”
The recent tournaments featured eight-ball 15-over matches but the association have opted to return to six-ball 20-over games.
Team lists:
Ray White Rural / Cressbrook Merinos
- Shaun Brennan
- Andrew Byrne
- Andrew Curry
- Andrew Divall
- Jeremy Faint
- Matt Foster
- Lach Fulloon
- Mark Haydon
- Brad King
- Mitch Moore
- James Piddington
- Brad Schumacher
- Jerome Simpson
- Andrew Starr
- Mitch Woods
New England Sheds
- Kyle Taylor ©
- Lochlan Elks
- Nick Farrar
- Matt Finlay
- Pat Gilbey
- Justin McKay
- Clarrie Moran
- Andy Sawyer
- Andrew Skinner
- Nathan Street
- Karl Triebe
- Charlie White
- Brad Widders
- Garry Yeomans
- Steven Yeomans
Sportspower
- Matt Baillie ©
- Will Archer
- Sam Brown
- Ash Clee
- John Elliot
- Mitchel Foster
- Olli Grimble
- Dick Heagney
- Max Laurie
- Liam Neeson
- Mathew Scully
- Aaron Whackett
- Chris Wild
- DJ Yeomans
Um, Yep
- Todd Francis ©
- Cameron Ashe
- Alex Brown
- Tyson Burey
- BJ Cameron
- Josh Croft
- Todd Francis
- Alex Frend
- Jackson Gwynne
- Ben Jackson
- Matt Jackson
- Justin Hickey
- Sean Skinner
- Micheal Smoother
- Tom Toshack
- Will Waterson