The former St Pat's player and current Western Suburbs member adds a dynamic all-round option for Bathurst City in the Twenty20 competition, which was set to get underway for the Redbacks this Friday against Orange City until wet weather postponed the clash.

Singh played just two games for his old club side as a backup marquee player for Jameel Qureshi in the 2019-20 competition, but impressed with the bat as he picked up two scores of 36.

While he'll have to wait a little longer to make his Bathurst City debut he'll be ready to try and make a bigger impact in an expanded Royal Hotel Cup competition.

As a result of the later finish for football at Wade Park in 2020, the field will be put on ice for a further week while maintenance staff work to bring the surface up to speed in time for a jam-packed summer of cricket.

Not only will the T20 fixture be moved to later in the year, the opening Bathurst Orange Inter District Cricket Association clash between Orange City and CYMS will be moved to Jack Brabham Park.

Orange District Cricket Association president Mark Frecklington understands the turn of events aren't ideal but always knew they were possible.

"This was always a chance to happen," Frecklington said.

"We scheduled everything to start from the beginning of the season because we really wanted to get it going but Wade Park just isn't ready yet.

"A lot of sport has been played there recently with the rugby grand finals.

"We don't know when the Orange City-Bathurst City match will be rescheduled but I can't see it happening until December. It might be on a Sunday but we'll see how we go."

No further postponements are expected as Frecklington anticipates the field will be brought up to speed in time for the second round of T20 and BOIDC first-grade action.