The ladies’s One-Day Cup welcomes a brand new aspect into Tier 1 this summer time, Yorkshire, who have been beforehand competing within the degree beneath. 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 group will begin their season on Saturday, we’ll wait a number of days longer, opening our account on the 15 April at residence towards Lancashire.
At first I used to be not sure the best way to really feel about this. Naturally we’re desperate 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 a number of further days would not really feel an excessive amount of of a chore.
I really like enjoying at Trent Bridge and calling it residence. Beforehand, now we have performed our fixtures throughout the East Midlands, nonetheless 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 different floor Chesterfield, while all six T20 Blast residence video games are primarily based there.
All are double headers alongside Nottinghamshire Outlaws.
There are a number of wrongs to place to proper for us this season. Final 12 months, 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 time, with sturdy want to deliver silverware again to Trent Bridge.
