The keeper-captains of last season's grand final, both made 86 in tight losses to Northern opponents last week and sit second in their teams' batting charts at the midway point of the season.

Waller's unbeaten knock continued a career-best one-day campaign with the bat after he passed on the captaincy and keeper's gloves in the off-season.

"I'm just trying to enjoy my cricket as much as possible and back myself a little bit more," the South Launceston right-hander said.

"I've probably had a fair bit of pressure on me since I took on the captaincy and keeping and everything but I'm just trying to enjoy the game a little more - not that I didn't when I was captain and keeping, but it's just trying to get a bit of enjoyment out of it."

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Waller's Knights took some time to get going this season, falling to 1-3 before a run of four straight wins saw them make a late dash for finals.

The loss of leading pace trio Jackson Young (Clarence), Anders Bulow (Denmark) and Josh Freestone (injury) has forced the Knights to adjust their bowling plans with spinners Brodie Jarrad and Sisitha Jayasinghe playing a more important role than ever.

'I think it took us a little bit of time to get used to that and we probably had to change the way we played our cricket a little bit," Waller said.

"That was probably the main thing that halted us at the start of the year, but we've started to gel a little bit more and get to know a different game style to what we're used to."

Murfet's 86 was his third 50 of the season so far and was the silver lining to an otherwise disappointing batting performance from the reigning one-day premiers.

"I'm feeling pretty good at the moment," the Shamrocks skipper said.

"It would have been nice to keep batting through the last four or five overs but I'm reasonably happy with how batting's going at the moment.

"Chathura [Athukorala] has been really good for us and he didn't get away so it was important that someone else stepped up into that role."

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