THE heat is on Notts Premier League leaders Clifton Village when they travel to Clifton tomorrow.

They have lost their last two matches to blow the title race wide open – and it does not get any easier tomorrow as they face third-placed Caythorpe.

Caythorpe also lost last weekend as they failed to cash in on Clifton's jitters and the match will have huge significance as things hot up in the last third of the season.

Wollaton, who beat Clifton, will be looking to cause another upset when they play host to second-placed Papplewick, who lost at home to the in-form Mansfield Hosiery Mills last weekend.

Wollaton will again look to the likes of Scott Elstone, who hammered a century in their win over Wollaton, and skipper Paul McMahon who picked up four wickets.

Attenborough gave themselves some breathing space at the bottom of the table by beating Farnsfield last week but face a stiffer test when Cuckney visit this weekend.

Struggling Farnsfield face a difficult task at Hosiery Mills, who seem capable of beating all-comers at the moment, while bottom club Plumtree will also be asked all the questions when they visit Welbeck.

Defending champions West Indian Cavaliers seem to have started their traditional run at the top spot, having beaten Caythorpe last Saturday to close the points gap. They travel to out-of-sorts Kimberley this week and the home side will need to pull out all the stops to break their poor run of late.

TEAMS

Kimberley: Michael Blatherwick, John Terry, Jon Shaw, Daniel Mason, Nigel Porter, Richard Adams, Matt Wright, Mark Footitt, Dominic Wheatley, Alex Heslop, Paldip Sidhu.

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

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

Plumtree: Alex Robinson, Jurgen Charlesworth, Dallas Coull, Adam Imrie (wk), Darren Wright (c), Kevin O'Brien, Michael Tew, Ben Storey, Scott Bailey, Alamgir Khan, Eddie Pidduck.

Mansfield Hosiery Mills: Keshera Jayasinghe (c), Hassan Adnan, Sudesh Fernando, Mick Rodgers, Matt New, Kieron Garside, Kyle Garside, Joe Caunt, Mark Curtis, Steve Gooding, Daniel Weaver.

Farnsfield: Paul Franks (c), Paul Delaney, Neil Sharp, Michael Bell, Dave Willcock, Lewis Saxby, Steve Musgrove, James Bennett, Damian Crowley, Brett Hutton, David Loveridge, James Smith.

Wollaton: Karl Glendenning, Paul McMahon (c), Steve Allcoat, Scott Elstone, Ed Savill, Nick Ellsmore, Ian Dodd, John Christiansen, Tom Savill, Tim Young, H Shamsi.

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

Caythorpe: Jim Hindson (c), Guy Welton, James Hawley, Josh Mierkalns, PK Riley, James Hartley, Stephen Randall, Sam Ogrizovic (wk), Jim Hemmings, Tom Hemmings, Sam Powell.

Clifton Village: Alex Hales, Peter Scott, Richard Harris, Liam Andrews, Scott McNeill, Luke Fletcher, Simon Roberts (c), Alastair Walters (wk), Daniel Footitt, Alex Turner, Nick Silverwood, Martin Weightman.

Attenborough: Andrew Simkiss (c), Chris Allcoat, Andy Carter, Sam Clulow, Shaun Fitzgibbon (wk), Alec McKinlay, Tom Murray, Martin Shoemaker, Martin Rayner, Michael Aplin, Peter Turner.

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

The Notts Premier Cricket League Twenty20 finals day take place at Wollaton CC on Sunday. Four clubs will battle it out – Wollaton, Cuckney and Attenborough from the Notts Prem – and Marshalls, who won the Bassetlaw tournament and then beat Gedling & Sherwood CC of the South Notts League.

Matches: 10.30am Marshalls v Wollaton; 1.15pm: Cuckney v Attenborough. 4pm: Final