YORK Cricket Club will be on red alert tomorrow when they travel to Doncaster Town in the Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier League.

After seeing off Barnsley and Harrogate, the latter by an incomplete win, York are now in second place in the league ladder, six points behind surprise pace-setters Cleethorpes, who top the table with a maximum 24 points following three complete wins.

Doncaster Town, by contrast, have yet to pick up a victory in their three matches this season – and are second bottom of the table with a solitary point.

But that does not mean captain Marcus Wood will be making any assumptions about rolling Doncaster over. The Clifton Park captain says his team will be fully focused.

“We won’t be going there with any complacency,” he said. “We know we can beat, and be beaten, by every team in this league. We will approach this match like we do every game.

“We don’t know a great deal about them, to be honest. We know what their results are and the guys who have played for them for years. But it is hard to predict any patterns of form until everyone has played a few games.”

York will field an unchanged squad from that which picked up the points for the Clifton Parkers in last weekend’s double header.

But South African bowler Petrus Jeftha, who York hoped would be their overseas player for the campaign, will not be coming to Shipton Road having been denied a visa.

The level of competition, in both the first and second teams, has delighted the captain, though, and with the club’s new players now having enjoyed an extended spell at the wicket, Wood said the onus was on players performing well on a consistent basis if they were to keep their shirts.

“It was good to have a double header early in the season,” he added.

“The more time we spend together as a team the better. Our new players have had some experience on their home pitch and we have got a lot of competition at the club this year. That will keep a lot of people on their game.”