WILTSHIRE captain Mike Coles says the county side won’t be playing with the weight of expectation on their shoulders when they bid to become the kings of Minor Counties cricket.

A season to savour has already seen Wiltshire dramatically clinch the Unicorns Championship Western Division title last month and now they have the chance to cap their summer by becoming national champions for the first time in 105 years.

Wiltshire, who previously won the title in 1902 and 1909, take on Eastern Division winners Staffordshire in the four-day championship final, which gets under way at 10.30am at South Wilts CC on Sunday.

With the majority of their club commitments now finished, the county squad will be linking up for one last training session on Saturday and skipper Coles says there won’t be any pressure on his players.

“I don’t think there will be any pressure on us. We’ve never been in this position before and the pressure will all be on Staffordshire because they’re the ones that have won it before,” said Coles.

“From speaking to the guys, I don’t think there’ll be any nerves or anything like that because we just want to enjoy the occasion. I’ve been playing minor counties cricket for 11 years and Shards (Neil Shardlow, team manager) has been involved in it for 25 years.

“This is the first time that either of us have been involved in anything like this and it might only happen to you once in your career.

“This year has been amazing and Wiltshire haven’t been in a position to become national champions for more than 100 years.

“This is something that we’ve got to savour and we’ve got to go out there and give 100 per cent for the four days.