City United head into the second day of their clash with West Tamworth with the salivating prospect of an outright win in the back of their minds- and potentially top spot on the table - but conscious that they still have a job to do to get first innings points.
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City skipper Brad Smith conceded they had spoken about the possibility of the outright after stumps last week with Wests reeling at 4-46 in reply to their 304.
But they also aren’t getting too far ahead of themselves.
“16 wickets is obviously the end goal, but taking the six wickets is the priority,” Smith said.
He couldn’t be happier with the position they are in.
“300 was always the goal,” he said, admitting he was about to declare before the final wicket fell.
“It was good to see the boys come in and rip in early and get a couple of wickets.”
And a couple of big ones.
Wests do still have skipper Shaun Stevenson and Dave Mudaliar to bat.
“They’re probably the two key wickets,” Smith said.
He will be looking for more of the same from his bowlers.
“We’ll just look to bowl our line and length and stay patient,” he said.
”We’ve got the full 80.
“We have a bit of a plan for tomorrow and we know what we want.”
He has no doubt they’ve got the wickets in them.
“We just go from strength to strength with our bowling,” he said.
“They’re probably our strong point.”
“We got three genuine quicks in Tait (Jordan), Jack (McVey) and Joey (Mead) and then Anoop (Gopalakrishnan) and Scotty Brennan to take care of the slow bowling.”
“If they bowl in partnerships there’s no reason we can’t get it done.”
Old Boys also have a mammoth chase ahead of them after brilliant knocks from Tom Groth (110) and skipper Mitch Smith (96) helped South Tamworth amass 297.
In reply Old Boys are 1-67.
In the other game Glenn Lewington (17no) and Henry Smith (19no) will resume North Tamworth’s run chase. They are 3-67 in pursuit of Bective Easts’ 161.
