A teenage talent will become the second member of his family to keep for Riverside's first-grade team in as many years.
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Having debuted last month, Jack Manix-Geeves will take the gloves from injured vice-captain Peter New (quad) in Saturday's home clash with Sheffield.
The junior state representative, who is the son of Blues president Sara, will follow in the footsteps of older sister Emma, who made 16 and completed a stumping against Westbury after receiving a call-up early last year.
"Jack will take the gloves - he's been in our playing XI so it's very handy to have him in," Riverside captain Tom Garwood said.
"He's really excited - he's done it in a T20 before but to get the opportunity behind the stumps for 50 overs, he's really looking forward to it and to backing up his batting performance from last week."
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Bailey Hunt will take New's spot in the XI and Ben Kidd his spot as opener as the Blues chase their fourth-straight one-day win.
"Sheffield are going to be quite strong - they've got some really good players in Marc Simonds and Alex King so they're key wickets, but we'll back what we've been doing the last three weeks," Garwood said.
WESTBURY has turned to in-form second-grade pair Dom Barrett and Jesse Digney to fill its troublesome opening batting spots.
The pair made 111* and 50 respectively last week in a three-figure opening partnership against South Launceston and will be asked for more of the same against Latrobe.
Barrett has been in and out of the first-grade side for several seasons while ACL recruit Digney will make his A-grade debut.
"Dom's coming off a hundred and he's made plenty of runs - he's always showed signs of being a really good first grade cricketer - his work quite often gets in the way but I'm sure he'll come and do a good job for us at the top," skipper Dan Murfet said.
"We've thrown the opening batting role around between three guys already and it hasn't worked out yet - it's definitely the most important role when it comes to batting in my eyes and we really want to make sure we get that sorted out.
"Jesse's a very attacking player so if he gets away I'm sure he'll get us in a good position and Dom's very correct and likes to accumulate his runs.
"They should both complement each other well so hopefully the change works well and if it doesn't that's fine - the guys in the middle order know they've got a job to do as well."
Luke Scott and Ben Spinks will return to strengthen MOWBRAY as the Eagles search for their first win of the season.
James Storay's side will meet Wynyard in the third of four consecutive home matches with Spinks set to pull on the maroon for the first time this season.
"It'll be nice to have him, he's a good quality bowler so we're obviously happy to have him back in," Storay said.
"Wynyard have improved a lot through their merger with the BCL club so it's going to be another tough challenge, but I feel like the boys are up to it and we're not far away really, it's just about taking those key moments and fighting for our wicket."
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LAUNCESTON have opted for a Smith-for-Smith replacement ahead of a trip to Burnie.
The undefeated Lions have recalled big-hitting quick Daniel for unavailable all-rounder Rowan as Alistair Taylor's men look to further establish their lead atop the cup table.
The Hurricanes have narrowly lost to Westbury and Riverside in the past two rounds and won't be taken lightly by the Lions.
"They're a really strong club, we got a good win up there last year though," Taylor said.
"It was the first time in 10 years I think we'd beaten them up there so we're going up there full of confidence, but they're a really good strong club so it'll be a challenge."
SOUTH LAUNCESTON will debut Zimbabwean batsman Martin Potsekayi as it looks to arrest a string of losses at Devonport.
Arriving at South via Victoria, the middle-order batsman made scores of 35 and 43 at much quicker than a run a ball in second grade to win the call-up.
South captain Sean Harris said his side was determined to return to the form that saw it knock off reigning premier Westbury in the opening round.
"We've had a couple of pretty tight losses and then obviously getting our pants pulled down [against Sheffield] wasn't much fun," Harris said.
"But we've probably just got to take a little bit more pride in our wickets and try and post decent scores."
Hamish Geale
Hamish Geale is a senior reporter at The Examiner. Got good news? Email: hgeale@examiner.com.au
Hamish Geale is a senior reporter at The Examiner. Got good news? Email: hgeale@examiner.com.au
