The big match-up in the second round of the Williams Cup is the expected battle between defending Williams Cup champions City Sports Bar Te Puke and Baywide Cup titleholders Eves Realty Greerton.

The match-up at the Te Puke Domain, is also a replay of last season's Williams Cup Final, with Greerton likely to be fired up with the memory of the Williams Cup title decider emphatic loss still fresh in their minds.

Both sides will go into the encounter with plenty of firepower in both their batting and bowling ranks.

Te Puke skipper Mitch McCann, who has blasted over 700 runs for the Bay of Plenty representative team, is a quality batsman who never sells his wicket cheaply.

Long time Te Puke player Tai Bridgman-Raison added another century to his personal total this season, while Stephen Crossan likes nothing better than to blast the ball to the boundary.

Quick bowler Josh Dwight, made his debut in the Bay of Plenty representative side this season, off the back of some sterling performances in the Baywide and Attrill Cup competition.

Mitch McCann is equally adept with both bat and ball and can be expected to trouble the Greerton batsmen with the ball in hand.

The visitors to the Te Puke Domain have batting firepower in spades. Tom MacRury who bats at the top of the order, is another to have blasted a wheelbarrow full of runs for the Bay first eleven in the last couple of seasons.

Two further danger-men at the batting crease are Cam Neal and Brett Hampton, who could put the boundary ropes at the Te Puke Domain under siege on Saturday. Hampton and Dan Spencer will spearhead the Greerton bowling attack with Murray Jarvis always difficult to counter.

Plenty of cricket awaits Tauranga Boys College, who will play in the Super Eight competition in Tauranga next week.

On Saturday they will warm up for their Super Eight challenges, when Rotorua Central comes to play in the Western Bay of Plenty. Two key Tauranga Boys players are top order batsman Jonty Grigson and captain and keeper Tom Renouf.

While Central were bundled out for less than fifty runs by Carrus Mount Maunganui last weekend, the Rotorua side will want to put the poor performance behind them at Nicholson Field.

Central have a genuine strike weapon in Andrew Gibbs, who grabbed a seven wicket bag in an Attrill Cup match earlier in the season.

The form book would suggest that Element IMF Cadets should have little trouble with Whakatane United in the Eastern Bay, while Mount Maunganui will be expected to comfortably account for BOP Indians at Blake Park.

BOPCA Williams Cup

Whakatane United v Element IMF Cadets, Rex Morepeth Park; Tauranga Boys College v Central, Nicholson Field; Carrus Mount Maunganui v BOP Indians, Blake1; City Sports Bay Te Puke v Eves Realty Greerton, Te Puke Domain.

Williams Cup Points Table

Mount Maunganui 6, Greerton 6, Cadets 6, Te Puke 6, Tauranga Boys College 0, Whakatane United 0, BOP Indians 0, Central 0.