After round one was rained out last weekend, three of the TCL's incumbents face newcomers on Saturday.
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The freshest face, EVANDALE PANTHERS, come up against last season's minor premiers Longford but coach Andrew Wright said his boys are ready to go after a big pre-season.
"We are looking forward to the challenge, the boys are pretty geed up," he said.
"Hopefully the rain holds off so we can get a game in and challenge them, show them how hard we've been training and have a fair crack."
Flanked by an abundance of new recruits, Jackson Blair's Longford are ready to step into the unknown.
"We are excited to go, it's a new year, first game and we're just looking to put 80 overs of cricket together and worry about getting the runs on the board or taking 10 wickets," he said.
"For them, they are going to have a few good players but it's very unknown."
ELSEWHERE IN SPORT
Despite not stepping on the park last weekend, James Whiteley's TREVALLYN outfit has already been hit by a mountain of changes as they prepare to face George Town.
Vice-captain Daniel Kirk, recruit Dan Forster and Caleb Lawson are all unavailable but will be replaced by experienced heads in Jay Willis and Wayne Ford as Trevallyn welcome the Saints into the competition.
"I think a few of the guys have played NTCA cricket against George Town and we are looking forward to have a pretty proud club enter our competition," he said.
"We want as many people as we can in the greater Launceston area playing cricket so you'd much rather have them with us in any capacity than not playing at all."
Saints coach Jack Hill welcomes opening quick Joey Bodis into his line-up and expects him as well as Sam Cooke and Jay Leslie to lead the way with the ball.
"Trevallyn are obviously a pretty well established side in the competition but we are confident in our bowlers to give us opportunities in the game and games moving forward," he said.
"I think the challenge will be for us as a group to recognise those opportunities and make the most of them."
Last season's A-grade premiers BRACKNELL welcome back two favourite sons for their match-up with Perth.
Daniel Shelton and Tim Walker come in with coach Dylan Semmens unsure what to expect from premier league.
"It's a world of unknowns, so we can really only focus on the 11 we've got on our team and we can't really focus on what the opposition is going to throw at us," he said.
Perth coach Matt Devlin said his side have their full quota to choose from should the weather hold off.
"They played really good cricket last year and they've got some really good players," he said.
"They are definitely out to prove a point this year as well, to play finals just like us, so it should be a good game - early on in the season it's not a bad one to have to see where we are all at."
While HADSPEN and ACL featured in the premier league last year, both sides look a fair bit different this season and despite strong 2019-20 victories, Chieftains coach Liam Reynolds is looking for the basics.
"We need to put good performances together across the board with batting, bowling and in the field," he said.
"Hopefully we can get away and get the season underway, we were a bit disappointed after the weather last week."
"It will be good match experience out there as a new group."
ACL coach Shaun Woods admitted his side have nothing to lose.
"We are looking at it as a really big challenge for the club for starters because they've got a very good team, they won the premiership last season and they've done a fair bit of recruiting in the off season," he said.
"It gives some of the boys some experience playing against a really good team and hopefully we can perform really well."