The ladies’s One-Day Cup welcomes a brand new facet into Tier 1 this summer season, Yorkshire, who had been beforehand competing within the stage under. They will play within the skilled 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 towards one another.
For the Blaze, this has fallen on the primary spherical of fixtures. Whereas each different staff will begin their season on Saturday, we’ll wait a couple of days longer, opening our account on the 15 April at dwelling towards Lancashire.
At first I used to be uncertain the way to really feel about this. Naturally we’re desirous to kick-start our marketing campaign and get into the season.
Nonetheless, since seeing the weekend forecast of a gusty and chilly Saturday in West Bridgford, ready a couple of further days would not really feel an excessive amount of of a chore.
I really like taking part in at Trent Bridge and calling it dwelling. Beforehand, we now have 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 dwelling One-Day Cup video games are at Trent Bridge, with two at our fond different floor Chesterfield, while all six T20 Blast dwelling video games are based mostly there.
All are double headers alongside Nottinghamshire Outlaws.
There are a couple of 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 actually one thing we’ll look to rectify this summer season, with sturdy want to convey silverware again to Trent Bridge.
