Albury will officially snap a 12-year finals drought, regardless of the outcome.

However, it will finish third and therefore snare a home game with a win, while also relying on third-placed East Albury to fall to a red-hot Lavington.

"This is almost our first weeks of finals, it's only knockout cricket from now on," captain Ross Dixon said.

"If anything, this gives us a perfect opportunity to show how we, as a group, perform under pressure.

"If we get the win on Saturday we'd finish at least fourth, but there's every opportunity we could finish third.

"The chance to even have a home final would be huge from a club morale perspective."

Albury is flying, largely on the back of boom recruit Innocent Kaia arriving mid-season.

"Since Innocent turned up, we've been getting 10-12 utes turning up when they know he's batting and everybody seems to disappear once he's out," Dixon said.

"He's like having three players as he's one of the best bats I've ever played with, he's a brilliant fielder and he opens the bowling with his leg-spin and offers such control.

"We had a children's day with about 60 or 70, I've never seen the club so vibrant."

The Englishman previously played with the club in 2014-15 before returning home.

He enjoyed it so much though he returned to play the odd game on holidays in the years afterwards, before eventually returning full-time.

The 27-year-old isn't regarded as an import because he has a skilled workers visa, which transfers to permanent residency.

And although he's not an import, as such, it's still extremely rare for an overseas player to captain a CAW club.

"Kade Brown started the year, but when he said he wanted to have a break, 'Stylesy' (coach Luke Styles) asked me if I was interested and it's worked out," Dixon said.

Fellow Englishman Dom Stockdale has a bridging visa, meaning Zimbabwean all-rounder Kaia and English teenager Louis Botes are the club's imports.

Botes represented England under 16s on a tour of Sri Lanka and given the country's depth at junior level, it's an enormous compliment to his talent.

The 18-year-old's father, also called Louis, was born in South Africa and played 16 first-class games, posting a highest score of 64.

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The right-arm paceman has taken 29 wickets at 17 and hit 237 runs at 30, while Dixon has 353 at 32 and 33 scalps.

Elsewhere, East Albury hosts Lavington, Wodonga is home to Belvoir, St Patrick's meet North Albury and Wodonga Raiders face New City.