So, with the resumption of the Bathurst and Orange Inter District Cricket competition just over a month away and the draw released last week, we've trawled through each round to find which games butter our buns and we're keen to see.

Here is our top five.

As the two reigning premiers of the Orange and Bathurst competitions respectively, it'll be a battle of the heavyweights which headline round two of the new competition.

Orange City pipped Cavaliers in the grand final last season after an incredible 55-run stand between skipper Ed Morrish and beanpole Jackson Coote helped pull off a miracle comeback to down the maroons.

Meanwhile, we'll also find out if Nic Broes can continue his staggering form against Orange teams.

The all-rounder was a genuine menace to anyone from Orange with both bat and ball in the Western Zone Premier League, President's Cup and any other competition he put his hand to.

Although that said, he put every bowling attack he came up against to the sword, and then when the tables turned he took the ball himself and proved to be one of the most attacking spinners in the region.

I mean he took 2-8 and hit 61 not out in their grand final win, do I need say more?

St Pat's also have other players who are good at cricket that'll make this clash something to watch, mind you.

Broes' Giants teammate in Bailey Brien for one. Adam Ryan for another. Tanvir Singh, Connor Slattery, and Mitch Taylor to name a few more.

On the back of that, you'd think St Pat's would be going in to not just this match but the competition as favourites.

While the biggest clash of round two in the BOIDC will be Orange City versus St Pat's, there's another clash across town which will rank up there.

The two 'glamour clubs' of their respective competitions in Cavaliers and Bathurst City will go head-to-head on Wade Park in round two in a blockbuster.

Glamour clubs, we hear you ask?

Look back through the archives since the competition split in 2007 and these are the two names you'll see with the most premierships to their name, the two clubs who have done the best out of the split to intra-town tournaments.

Which legacy will come out on top?

It'll also show how just how much Cavaliers are able to bounce back in 2019-2020 from their grand final loss last season.

While Orange has been treated to these clashes ever year since the split, it'll be noteworthy to watch this round three clash as a grand final rematch ... of sorts.

These were the two clubs that met in the BOIDC decider in 2007, the last year before the competition splintered into two, and what a grand final it was.

A Richie Venner-led Cavaliers side belted the highest grand final score in the competition's history and cruised to a whopping 335-run win at Wade Park.

Allen Sullivan hit 114 to be the third man to ton up in a final, and Craig Evers fell for 98, agonisingly close to being the only man to hit two hundreds in finals in the BOIDC competition.

The win was Cavaliers' fifth in a row and even with CYMS missing their captain, opening bat and opening bowler, it was by far their most comprehensive.

Can history repeat? For CYMS' sake, we hope not.

Rugby Union hasn't set the world alight in the Bathurst competition, with just the one premiership since the turn of the century - coming in 2017-2018.

Centrals won their titles back-to-back in 2010-11 and 2011-12, but they're the only two premierships the club has won in first grade since 1988.

Both clubs will feel like they've under-performed in their time and will have a point to prove, and what better way to do so than by belting their counterpart on the other side of The Rocks?

Both sides will be absolutely helter-skelter to try and reach that top four and break out of the mold, but will either of them be able to do it?

Can they become more than the sum of their parts and attack the BOIDC with a full head of steam?

This round four clash might play a big part in deciding which side can make an impact.

The two stragglers of their respective competitions, the students and the Bulls will square off in the last round before Christmas.

Could it be one of the deciding battles of who finishes last?

It could, but we prefer to think of it as the match in which one of these sides, who have traditionally struggled breaking into the top tier of the two-day competitions despite the Bulls' stellar record in the shorter format, could springboard into the top half of the overall standings.

If either pulls together a strong enough squad they can do damage. The question is: will they?