‘‘We’ve brought in Jake Doran, Caleb Jewell, Tom Triffitt, Ben McDermott and Riley Meredith, on top of having those experienced players (George Bailey, Xavier Doherty and James Faulkner) around who we didn’t have at the back end due to the World Cup,’’ Marsh said at Cricket Tasmania’s season launch last week.

‘‘We have this real mix of young and old and we want to improve on our performances from the back end of last year, but we also want to keep producing Australian players.

‘‘It is really exciting that James and Andrew Fekete have been selected for the Bangladesh tour, as it gives those guys beneath them in selection an opportunity to perform in the Matador Cup and the Sheffield Shield.

‘‘We are really determined to improve on last year.’’

A poor second half of the Shield summer saw the Tigers finish second-last on the table, which came after a fourth-placed finish in the one-day competition, and they saw opener Ed Cowan return to New South Wales, with Jon Wells not offered a new contract.

Tasmania has not got their hands on any silverware since the 2012-13 Sheffield Shield, but Marsh was confident that the state could make a statement this summer.

‘‘For us, it will be about being tougher for longer, and at the back end of last year we weren’t.

‘‘If we can do that, then I have no doubt we have the skill base to be in all competitions.

‘‘Any competition we enter we want to win, but it will be about the process of how we play, and if we can get that right then the results will follow.

‘‘We’ve worked hard this preseason and challenged the players probably harder than we ever have before, and we are really interested to see how that goes in the game situation.’’

Marsh said he believed the likes of Jake Doran, Alex Doolan, Hamish Kingston, Sam Rainbird and Jackson Bird  could  have strong summers.

‘‘With five retirements in the Australian Test team, you would love to be a young cricketer right now.

‘‘With Jake, he is just a really mature 18 year-old with a really good head on his shoulders and he’s very meticulous about the way he prepares for his games, and he wants to learn all the time.’’

The former Tasmanian all-rounder said he was still enjoying coaching and felt he was the right man to lead Tasmania back to cricket success.

‘‘When you have the end of last summer like we did, you get the chance to sit back and reflect on what went wrong, and we have done that and we have changed quite a few things, and the exciting thing is now we get to see how that all is going to go.’’

Tasmania begins their domestic one day cup campaign against Queensland at North Sydney Oval on Monday, with this year's competition to feature a Cricket Australia XI made up of young players on the edge of selection for their state.

It is a concept the coach said can only be judged at the end of the tournament.

The Tigers regain all-rounder Faulkner and paceman Andrew Fekete after the postponement of the Bangladesh tour.

Ben Hilfenhaus, who is recovering from hamstring soreness, and Jordan Silk (personal reasons) are notable absentees.

Former Launceston cricketer Ryan Lees, originally from Flinders Island, has moving to the CA XI squad, with rookie Ben McDermott has been squeezed out of that squad.