THE big guns go head-to-head in the Nottinghamshire Premier League tomorrow when leaders Clifton take on second-placed Papplewick.

Papplewick will have home advantage but with both sides naming strong teams, it should be a fascinating contest.

No first class County Championship matches are scheduled this weekend which means that all sides should have their county players available ,with the exception of Jason Brown, for Plumtree. He is still suffering from a calf injury sustained with Notts at Oxford University.

But it is at Papplewick where most the attention will be focused as the likes of Stuart Law and Phil DeFreitas will be looking to peg back the leaders in what should be a cracker.

Third-placed Caythorpe are hosts to Welbeck, who got the better of Wollaton last weekend and will be looking to upset the home side who have put together a string of good results to reach their current position.

Another good game is in prospect at Wollaton where the visitors are Cuckney who are also in great form and currently fourth in the table following their win against Mansfield Hosiery Mills last Saturday.

Wollaton will be anxious to regain their earlier form. They challenged for top spot early on but have slipped into the bottom half of the table recently.

Kimberley, also struggling with their form, gave a poor performance at Caythorpe last week and will want to bounce back at home to Attenborough, who are desperate to distance themselves from the bottom two places, currently occupied by Farnsfield and Plumtree.

Farnsfield are at home to reigning champions West Indian Cavaliers who were undone by a ninth-wicket stand at Papplewick when they appeared to be in a winning position last week.

Farnsfield gained their first win of the season against Plumtree last week, to push them into bottom spot.

Plumtree also have a tough task as they travel to Mansfield Hosiery Mills, always a difficult side to beat on their home ground. Plumtree will hope Matt Wood can continue his recent good form for Notts after returning from injury.

Squads

Papplewick: Martin Bekker (c), Alex Lloyd, John Wakelin, Stuart Law, Jim Rhodes, Tim Clarke, Charlie Dagnall, Taimoor Khan, Brad Matthews, Phil DeFreitas, Richard Winton.

Clifton Village: Alex Hales, James Hollingsworth, Richard Harris, Liam Andrews, Nick Silverwood, Bobby Chapman, Luke Fletcher, Simon Roberts (c), Alastair Walters (wk), Daniel Footitt, Alex Turner.

Caythorpe: Jim Hindson (c), Guy Welton, Josh Mierkalns, PK Riley, Richard Beaumont, Sam Ogrizovic (wk), Stephen Randall, Jim Hemmings, Tom Hemmings, Josh Bolus, James Mann, Sam Powell, Andy Seager.

Welbeck: Jonathan Ball (c), Martin Dobson, Matthew Higgins, Vikram Atri, Guy Darwin, Rob French, Noel Gie, J.Jevons, Lee Brooks (wk), Raman Sharma, Andrew Marchant, Tom Barker.

Wollaton: Karl Glendenning, Paul McMahon (c), Gerry McMahon, Jason Potter, Andy Crossley, Steve Allcoat, Scott Elstone, Ed Savill, Nick Ellsmore, Ian Dodd, John Christiansen.

Cuckney: Will Butler (c), Richard Stroh, L.Carlisle, Dan Brown, Tom Ullyott, Elliott Hind, Adam Burgess, Richard Bostock, Nick Rose, D Hunt, Richard Bostock.

Kimberley: Michael Blatherwick (c), John Terry, Jon Shaw, Daniel Mason, Samit Patel, Nick Langford, Alex Heslop, Nigel Porter, Richard Adams, Matt Wright, Mark Footitt.

Attenborough: Andrew Simkiss (c), Chris Allcoat, Andrew Carter, Richard Dowdall, Shaun Fitzgibbon (wk), Alec McKinlay, Tom Murray, Martin Shoemaker, Martin Rayner, Alan Moss, Peter Turner.

Farnsfield: Paul Franks (c), Paul Delaney, Lewis Bramley, Michael Bell, Dave Willcock, Adam Gilbert, Lewis Saxby, Dave Loveridge, Steven Musgrove, James Bennett, Damian Crowley, Brett Hutton.

WI Cavaliers: Ricaldo Anderson (c), Aaron Thomas (wk), Aqib Afzaal, Dominic Williamson, Bilal Shafayat, Michael Millwood, Andy Haye, Steve Atkinson, Iftikar Asghar, Zubin Fizal, Usman Afzaal, Orson Nurse, Neneto Davis, Kamran Afzaal, Tinashe Panyangara, Mohammed Azeemi.

Mansfield HM: Keshera Jayasinghe (c), Hassan Adnan, Gareth Curtis, Sudesh Fernando, Mick Rodgers, Matt New, Kieron Garside, Kyle Garside, James Fraser, Joe Caunt, Zuhaib Saleem, Gareth Curtis.

Plumtree: Dallas Coull, Alex Robinson, Adam Imrie (wk), Darren Wright (c), Matt Wood, Nigel Finney, Michael Tew, Scott Bailey, Eddie Pidduck, Alex Sheriston, Justin Stockdale.