The ladies’s One-Day Cup welcomes a brand new facet into Tier 1 this summer time, Yorkshire, who had been beforehand competing within the degree beneath. They will play in the professional league for the primary time.
This takes Tier 1 from an eight-team competitors to a nine-team one, resulting in sides lacking a spherical of fixtures whereas everybody else performs in opposition to one another.
For the Blaze, this has fallen on the primary spherical of fixtures. Whereas each different group will begin their season on Saturday, we’ll wait just a few days longer, opening our account on the 15 April at residence in opposition to Lancashire.
At first I used to be not sure find out how to really feel about this. Naturally we’re desirous to kick-start our marketing campaign and get into the season.
Nevertheless, since seeing the weekend forecast of a gusty and chilly Saturday in West Bridgford, ready just a few additional days does not really feel an excessive amount of of a chore.
I like enjoying at Trent Bridge and calling it residence. Beforehand, we have now performed our fixtures throughout the East Midlands, nevertheless this season marks an enormous enhance in our fixtures on the historic floor.
Six out of eight residence One-Day Cup video games are at Trent Bridge, with two at our fond various floor Chesterfield, while all six T20 Blast residence video games are primarily based there.
All are double headers alongside Nottinghamshire Outlaws.
There are just a few wrongs to place to proper for us this season. Final yr, by our personal requirements, was in some ways a disappointing one.
Regardless of reaching all three semi-finals within the One-Day Cup, Vitality Blast and County Cup, we did not handle to progress any additional.
That is definitely one thing we’ll look to rectify this summer time, with sturdy need to deliver silverware again to Trent Bridge.
