One impressive winning streak will come to an end when Mt Clear and Wendouree face off in round seven of the Ballarat Cricket Association firsts on Saturday.
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The Mounties will chase its sixth win on the trot in a one day clash at Mt Clear Turf. The Red Caps meanwhile will play for their fourth in a row after an emphatic triumph last week.
Mt Clear captain Jarrod Burns anticipated Saturday's clash to be the toughest yet for the club.
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"It's all about momentum and who can keep it," he said.
"Their batting is their firepower, it will depend on their openers to see where they're at."
Wendouree openers Cole Roscholler and Sam Miller caught fire last week to single-handedly chase down a score of 198 set by Golden Point. Both batsman finished unbeaten, with Roscholler scoring a mammoth 106 not out.
Burns said efforts would be made to dismiss the pair cheaply this week.
"If we get one or both of them early, it's game on, but if they get off to a good start it's going to make it tough," he said.
"They are two quality players so it will be a matter of putting plans in place and executing."
The Mounties will be without top order bat Matt Ward, who re-aggravated a hamstring injury against Brown Hill. It is the latest in a series of injuries for the veteran, who missed significant time last season with an Achilles injury.
Meanwhile Wendouree will be without wicket keeper Jayden White-Powell who suffered a broken finger on debut. Oliver Mahncke will come back in.
Red Caps captain Ryan Simmonds said a win this week might set them up for the rest of the season.
"It's always important before Christmas to get wins, because while the season can't be won before the break, it can be lost," he said.
Elsewhere Golden Point will look to break a two-match skid in its one day clash with Buninyong.
The club will enter the match unchanged from the week prior when it takes the field at Eastern Oval.
Golden Point captain Andrew Warrick said he expected an evenly matched contest.
"We've played good bits of cricket in patches, we've just got to put it all together at once," he said.
"We are still happy with the same eleven so hopefully we can start playing some better cricket."
At the other end, Buninyong will chase its second win in as many weeks after overcoming Ballarat-Redan a week ago.
TEAM LISTS:
Ballarat-Redan
First Grade (vs. North Ballarat, Round:7 )
Chris Egan(c), Jayden Hayes, Zac Jenkins, Matthew Aikman, Ryan Aikman, Nathan Patrikeos, Max Riding, Matthew Sandford, Lachlan Constable, Bailey Hosemans, Sam Hope
Brown Hill
First Grade (vs. Darley, Round:7 )
Tom Bourke-Finn(c), Ryan Knowles, Jason Knowles, Mitchell McLaughlin, Samuel Leith, James Waller, Fraser Hunt, Prabath Priyankara, Thiwanka Ranasinghe, Viraj Pushpakumara, Siddharth Rajesh
Buninyong
First Grade (vs. Golden Point, Round:7 )
Liam Brady(c), Harrison Bond, Tyler Dittloff, Robert Hind, Darcy Tasker, Connor Palmer, Liam Rigby, Geordie McLeod, Rupinder Singh, Mayank Sharma, Liam Mason
Darley
First Grade (vs. Brown Hill, Round:7 )
Bradley Barnes(c), Rahmatullah Khwaja, David Hoey, Drew Locke, Brodie Ward, Dayle Locke, Hasitha Wickramasinghe, Madushanka Ekanayaka, Danza Hyatt, Brodie Gellie, Anthony Taylor
East Ballarat
First Grade (vs. Naps-Sebas, Round:7 )
Joshua Brown(c), Harli Givvens, Jacob Eyers, Chris Jerram, Harry Ganley, Bradley Whittaker, Darcy Thomson, Oliver Hayes, Tom Walton, Mitchell Walsh, Lewis Hodgins, Tristan Dixon
Golden Point
First Grade (vs. Buninyong, Round:7 )
Andrew Warrick(c), Joshua White, Lachlan Herring, Daniel White, Peter Appleton, Simon Ogilvie, Daniel McDonald, Samuel Younghusband, Tom McKenzie, Joshua Pegg, Manjula De Zoysa
Mt Clear
First Grade (vs. Wendouree, Round:7 )
Jarrod Burns(c), Jacob Smith, Grant Trevenen, Ashley George, Darren Fletcher, Steven Nicholson, Lachlan Payne, Jack Jeffrey, Isaac Hucker, John Butler, Matthew Goonan
Napoleons-Sebastopol
First Grade (vs. East Ballarat, Round:7 )
Daniel Scott(c), Corey Hucker, Luke Corden, Tarkyn Balzan, Lachlan Storey, Seamus Dunne, Nicholas Pantzidis, Dylan York, Sajith Dissanayaka, Janath Tissera, Nathan Doonan
North Ballarat
First Grade (vs. Ballarat-Redan, Round:7 )
Mick Nolan(c), Dylan Achison, Shean Vanderwert, Hugh McGregor, Leigh Lorenzen, Matthew Zakynthinos, Mitchell Nicholson, Jonah Healey, Sam Jackson, Ashley McCafferty, Vikrant Dabra
Wendouree
First Grade (vs. Mt Clear, Round:7 )
Ryan Simmonds(c), Heath Pyke, Mathew Begbie, Thomas Le Lievre, Lucas Argall, Sam Miller, Tristan Maple, Jack Peeters, Sam Peeters, Cole Roscholler, Jayden White-Powell
