BEAUTY Point will be strengthened by the return of some key players for this week's round of TCL, A-grade, Twenty20 matches.
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Jason Savage, Adam Savage,Tyler Bain and Brennan Cresswell will all return after missing last week's opening round.
The Point faces two tough games against Legana and Hadspen at Legana tomorrow, after losing to Longford last week.
Captain Rob Eltringham thought that performance wasn't too bad considering they had players missing but rated Longford as the team to beat this year.
LEGANA plays Beauty Point and Longford coming off a good win first-up against Hadspen.
Durhams captain Matty Wells said that performance was a good start to the season and he welcomed the challenge of seeing how they stacked up this week against two strong oppositions.
Wells said they batted sensibly to make a competitive score of 134 and backed that up with a good bowling and fielding performance.
The Durhams should field an unchanged side.
HADSPEN plays Beauty Point after suffering two losses last week.
Captain Clint Moore said his side would continue to work on areas where it needed to improve, having some new players in the mix.
LONGFORD kicked off the season with two wins and has two handy inclusions this week in Dion Blair and Nick Spencer for its game against Legana.
Tigers president Phil Dodd said recruits John McCoy and Jackson Blair did well last week, with Aiden Hume and Brett Martin good with the ball.
Ashley Holloway, Scott Bennett and Trent Spencer will miss this week, with Rod Dolting and Hamish Jones facing fitness tests.
DIGGERS will look to continue its winning form in its matches against Uni-Mowbray and Trevallyn at Hagley, after beating Perth last week.
Coach Craig Wegman said it was a solid performance with some younger players moving up to A grade and performing well.
He said they would have to tighten up on wides this week but their fielding and batting had been very good.
Tim Crawford returns with Zach Dean omitted.
PERTH made an impressive start in the competition last week, and coach Dean Hawkins was rapt with their competitive performances in their first hit-outs.
He said they fielded and batted well and did not lose clumps of wickets and were in with a chance of winning the game against Trevallyn.
The Demons should be at full strength with Scott Brewer playing his first game and captain Matt Lawrence coming into the side, with Simon Murray and Andrew Nichols missing out.
TREVALLYN plays Diggers after recording double wins last week.
Captain-coach Damian Whybrow said they would be missing Michael Hall, Nathan Balym and Matty Cocker but expected a good contest.
UNI-MOWBRAY plays Diggers and Perth with Shane Evans returning this week.