HAWKESBURY Cricket Club has been preaching concentration at training ahead of its clash with Banstown.
The club played two one-day matches to start the Sydney Grade Club season and will play the first of its two-day matches this round.
The first day will be Saturday, October 10, and the second day will be played the week later.
Cricket manager Aaron Lewis said the club wanted to avoid the mental lapses, which cost it more than one game against Blacktown.
"We focused a little bit more on two-day cricket, leaving the ball a bit more and being more patient and bowling slightly different lines," he said.
"Bankstown is a pretty solid side, I think were runners-up last year so we're expecting a tough game from an experienced side."
Lewis said fast bowler Pat Lawrence, who had a cracking first game of the season, was well suited to two-day matches and the club was expecting big things from him.
"He has reworked his action a fair bit in the off-season and he is coming up nice and quick," he said.
"We haven't clocked him of late but we reckon he is around the 140-kilometres per hour mark.
"He took 4-38 against Manly, but didn't go well against Blacktown but I am hoping the longer format will suit him a bit better."
Lewis said Lawrence was rated very highly within the club, and it was thought a New South Wales call-up was definitely a possibility for him.
Lewis said he was also hoping for a big game out of middle order batsman Alex Graham, who has struggled in the first two matches.
He said Graham had been working had to turn his form around and thought it was only a matter of time until the hard work paid off.
The Hawks will also play a T20 match on Sunday, October 11, against the Australian Capital Territory in the Kingsgrove Sports Twenty20 Cup.
The Hawks lost their first match of the cup to this week's grade competition opponents Bankstown on September 27.
A. Graham, B. Patterson, A. Nair, S. Mott, D. Mckay, J. Dyball (c), P. Lawrence, B. Atherton, A. Kershler, K. Gordon, C. Lowe (wk).
D. Brown, R. Mizzi (wk), M. Stevens, L. Eldridge, A. Van Den Nieuwboer, S. Timbs, H. Ridgewell, M. Bedi, A. Beach, J. Nelson (c), T. Wilson.
L. Clark (wk), C. Coote, S. Baldwin, M. Williams, M. Goeke, T. Wood, V. Singh, S. Simons, S. Gavin, J. Gordon, D. Laing (c).
I. Walker (wk), C. De Kretser, J. Gurney, J. McFadden, J. Hilder, E. Franke, L. Cash, A. Mcgregor (c), A. Cash, J. Brett, D. Hardaker.
A. Kershler, B. Atherton, A. Van Den Nieuwboer, T. Wilson, A. Graham, S. Mott, K. Gordon, P. Lawrence, A. Nair, C. Lowe (wk), D. Mckay, B. Patterson, J. Dyball (c).
