St Pat's Old Boys look to make strong start against Orange City with players out in week two

The Saints will be featuring in one of the games of the round in this Saturday's Bathurst Orange Inter District Cricket clash away at Wade Park, pitting second against third.

Fearnley punished Kinross' overly defensive batting last round with an unstoppable spell of accurate bowling, adding another great set of figures to his solid start this 2020-21 season.

"My role is just to work off the young guys. It's all about them, and then I'm there to add that little bit of experience and to finish the games off," Fearnley said.

"It was one of those games where they played very negative and you've just got to bowl at the stumps when they're doing that. If you bowl six maidens and bowl at the stumps you're bound to get a few wickets."

Pat's know they have to get off to a good start this Saturday in the two-day game given that they'll lose several of their talented junior to the Central West Colts Carnival the following weekend.

"It's definitely a test for us and an indication of where both clubs are. I think we both have limited losses going into this game, but I know we have a couple of losses in week two with a few guys playing under 18s," Fearnley said.

"That doesn't worry me because we've got them at the back end of the season, where it counts.

"Guys like Gus Parsons, Josh Willcox and Hamish Siegert got an opportunity with the bat last week. It's about everyone utilising their position in the batting order so that when an opportunity comes, like with the guys out with rep cricket, they can make the most of it."

The match at Wade Park starts from 1.00pm.