DEFIANT Dorset team manager Sean Walbridge has stressed they aren't going to Lord's simply to make up the numbers in August's MCCA Trophy final.

Instead the Dean Park chief has pledged to bring the silverware home to the south coast ahead of their August 16 clash against Northumberland.

Walbridge, whose county beat Cumberland at Weymouth in the 1988 final, said: "That was the last final before the event was switched to Lord's. It was ironic, really, that Dorset got to the final of the then Holt Cup 18 years ago only to see the next season's finalists play at Lord's.

"It has been a long time to wait, but we are now ready and raring to go there for the first time in Dorset's 110-year history.

"We're not going to treat it as a day out. The aim is to go there, enjoy the day, but ultimately come home with the trophy."

Walbridge, whose side beat Staffordshire by seven wickets at Dean Park in the semi-final on Sunday, added: "There are 15 or 16 people in with a shout of getting into our team for the final."

Apart from the 11 on duty against Staffordshire, others who could come into the equation are batsmen Matt Swarbrick and Ben Lawes, who was 12th man on Sunday, and bowlers Dan Belt and Rupert Kitzinger.

Swarbrick, currently nursing an injured back, was originally left out of the semi-final so that Steve Selwood, the ex-Derbyshire batsman, could return.

Belt sustained a shoulder injury playing for Weymouth on Satur-day and saw his place against Staffordshire go to Ziggy Arshad.

Kitzinger will also have a fight to get back into the team after missing the semi-final because he was on a four-day break in Sweden.