Seven Westbury players pulled on orange and black in 2018-19, with Ollie Wood, Jake Williams, Alex Kerrison and Liam Ryan among the 10 most-capped Raiders.

But with the Raiders' maiden Cricket Tasmania Premier League season done and dusted, Westbury skipper Richard Howe is now hoping to reap the rewards of a team brimming with experience at a higher level. 

"We’ve just got to embrace it as much as possible - it’s probably a good position where we’ve got four or five guys that are constantly putting their hands up to play," Howe said.

"That's fantastic for our group of young guys, but it’ll be nice for the remainder of the year to have all the guys back.

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"I think it’s been a good concept and over the course of the next few years it’s only going to get a bit better.

"Once it becomes part and parcel more guys will put their hands up and hopefully it’ll really take off because it’s good for the North, that’s for sure."

Howe said his young talents were already starting to see the benefits of playing at a higher level, pointing to Williams - who returns to replace Joel Lloyd - and Wood as examples. 

"I think some of Jake’s scores speak for themselves and Ollie’s been in there all year," he said.

"We’ve probably only had them back for two or three games throughout the year and they probably feel a little bit more pressure coming back - sometimes you get more nervous playing for your own club than you do moving into another level."

An outright win against Riverside could be enough for the Shamrocks to pinch top spot, but current occupant LAUNCESTON isn't worried. 

The Lions are in a good position against reigning premier South Launceston after Alistair Taylor posted his third ton of the season, and the captain-coach said maintaining form would be his side's only goal heading into day two. 

"I think all the boys think about it but it’s not something we can control unfortunately, so we’ll just play our game the best we can and whatever the result is in the other game is the result," Taylor said.

"If we end up finishing on top fantastic, if we get a win and finish second fantastic - either way we know we’re going to be playing finals so we’re all pretty happy about that.

"It’s just trying to finish off the season to the best of our ability."

If any team has the depth to chase 340-plus it is Tom Waller's Knights, who have lost the fewest wickets of any club this season.

Top spot is off the table barring a Riverside outright win, but Waller is determined to chase the total nevertheless.  

"Last week they had a couple of pretty good partnerships Launceston, but they had that one guy they could bat around in Alistair - he gave a couple of chances but apart from that he batted well and was probably the difference in the end," Waller said.

"Hopefully we can have someone like that who can bat through the innings, new batters can bat around him and form that partnership so that’ll be our aim for the day.

"It was a pretty good wicket last week and we unfortunately lost the toss - I would have loved to have batted on that wicket but that’s just how it goes."

James Beattie will take Nathan Carter's spot in the Knights' XI.