Not only will she make her first grade debut for Orange City, but in the process she will become the first female to play for the club's top grade.

"It's pretty special. I've always wanted to play first grade and I think it will be a very good challenge," the young wicket-keeper said.

"It's a really good club with a lot of history and one of the best clubs in the Bathurst Orange city competition, so it will be good to play alongside and against the best."

Not only will Saturday be her first grade debut - should the rain stay away - it will be the first time she has lined up for City this year after the wet weather saw the past two rounds of the Bathurst and Orange Inter District Competition called off.

That didn't make it easy for Letcher, who had been selected to play both of those games.

"Last couple of weeks have been pretty wet, so I've had it in the back of my mind that I wasn't going to be playing so I've been prepared for that," she said on the long wait to debut.

"It is a little bit frustrating because the cricket season is finally coming around but we still have to sit on the bench and wait for the first game, but I guess it will make it more worth it."

But just because she is yet to have a hit out in Orange, doesn't mean she is rusty.

Last weekend she squeezed in a T20 game for Parramatta in the women's second grade competition in Sydney. She top scored with 23 and grabbed a stumping in what was a match-winning performance.

She is hoping that translates into Saturday's match against Rugby Union at Wade Park, in what will be the first time the sides have locked horns since last year's rain-impacted preliminary final which saw City progress through to the grand final.

"I'm looking forward to just having a good game behind the stumps and being nice and clean. I don't think I'll have too many batting opportunities, hopefully we'll get all the runs and I won't need to make any," she said.

"I'm just looking forward to taking a few catches, getting a few stumpings and do whatever is asked of me.

But above all, she is hoping to be an inspiration for those young girls hoping to one day follow in her footsteps.

"I think it's pretty good and it shows the progress that women's cricket has had, to be able to produce players who can play at that level," she said on being the first female first grader for City.

"I think it will be good to show the other teams and my teammates that there are girls capable of playing cricket at the top level. Women's cricket is something I'm really passionate about, so to be a pioneer or someone who's leading the way is something I hold special to me."

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