He's the target of the Amaroo Hotel Tigers' plans for tonight's Megahit final, but Tom Atlee is not feeling the pressure.
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In fact, the 17-year-old quick is feeling in good form after a week or two off bowling, and knows his job in what will be his second Twenty20 final.
"I haven't really thought about it," he said when asked if he was feeling nervous.
"I think I just need to go in open-minded, try your best, there's not too much pressure.
"I'm just going to try to attack and take wickets, hopefully get a few early ones and get into the tail. Really it's a team effort and if everyone can chip in and take a few wickets, we should be quite successful."
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Atlee has been dominant throughout the 2018-19 McDonalds Megahit competition, averaging 49.67 with the bat, and a strike rate of 402.7.
But it's his bowling that has the Tigers wary.
He said their plan to bat conservatively against him could work in the Blasters' favour.
"They can get out doing that, and it can slow down the run rate for us," Atlee said.
"The other bowlers can take wickets as well."
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Tigers wicket keeper Dan French flagged Ben Patterson as their best hope, and Atlee agreed.
"Patto is … probably the best player in Dubbo at the moment," he said.
"We've got training tonight [Thursday] so I'm sure we'll go over a few plans.
"A lot of our boys have played rep with him over the years. I think we'll just look to build up the dots on him and then just produce something."
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