Come Friday night's Royal Hotel Cup game, not one member of Orange City's bowling attack might be excited by the prospect of taking the new ball.
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You could hardly pick a more terrifying assignment for the Warriors' bowlers with CYMS' Mick Delaney and Sam Dwyer padded up and ready to go.
To call Delaney and Dwyer a dangerous duo at the top of the order is an understatement of the highest order.
The two sit second and seventh on the Royal Hotel Cup runs tally, but its their strike rate which gives opposition bowlers nightmares - Delaney's crunched 169 runs per 100 balls in 2019-20, while Dwyer's 106 runs - from just two innings, mind you - have come at a strike rate of 225.
The pair are the only batters with more than 100 runs to have strike rates of over 160, and showed how destructive they can be in the side's monstrous win over Centennials in December.
Delaney and Dwyer hit a 139-run opening stand in just 12 overs - including 16 boundaries and nine sixes - before the former raced to a 61-ball 111 and the latter hit 71 from 32 to propel CYMS' total to 3-220.
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Warriors skipper Ed Morrish admitted they were ideally suited to Twenty20 cricket.
"The two have a very aggressive approach at the top of the order which is exactly what you want in T20," he said.
"Mick Delaney can't say too much about but he's a class player and played at a really high level, Sammy I've played with and against and know a bit more about him."
The Warriors have one of the most economical bowlers in the competition in Brett Causer, who's only gone for 39 runs from his eight overs, while Morrish and Shaun Grenfell both have conceded under seven runs an over for the tournament.
Morrish kept his cards close to his chest in regards to if his side had a plan to counter CYMS' power duo, but back his side in.
"Our bowling attack is up for most challenges, I back our bowling in fielding into the hilt," Morrish said
"Brett Causer and I normally bowl three to four upfront, but we might change that this game.
"With representative stuff and with Wranglers I often bowl in the middle and at the death, so I'm used to bowling everywhere."
He said the Warriors had added a batting lineup to compliment the side's strong bowling attack, and was hoping one of Mick Curtale, Shaun Grenfell or Lachie Coyte to go big on Friday night.
The stakes of the game were also not lost on City's skipper, with first playing third in a match which could shape the finals.
"Going undefeated into finals is a good position to be in, although it's not the be all and end all as last year proved," he said.
Last year's final is a touchy topic for Morrish, who's still driven by his side's loss to St Pat's in the decider.
"Winning the Royal Hotel Cup is a big deal for me personally, we've only missed the finals once in the competition and we've only won it once," he said.
"That final last year really irritates me, we should have chased down 140 and we got bogged down. I really want to win it."