The trio, who are in Bay player/captain/coach Mathew Sinclair's line-up with fellow CHB players Blair Tickner and Dominic Thompson, have been playing alongside each other from the age of 4.
"Especially given it's a game at home, it's pretty special to know five local guys are in there," says Angus, the 20-year-old stock agent.
"Everyone's pretty excited so we're expecting a big following here."
Angus, a spinner/batsman, is the head groundsman at the domain and forecasts a pearler of a wicket for the zone 2-qualifying Blair Furlong Cup match.
"I've been on that roller for countless hours this week.
"If I wasn't going to be picked for this game I would have made it into a green seamer," he says with a grin, after he, brother Scott and veteran teammate James Mackie became casualties of the Kirk Cup defeat to Poverty Bay in Gisborne early this summer.
Scott, 23, returns for the first time since that blood-letting exercise.
Joviality aside, Angus says he's produced a pitch that will offer pace, go flat by lunchtime and then offer turn for the spinners.
All that points to a win toss, bowl first scenario.
Napier-born Tickner is a right-arm seamer who spent the past decade in the Gold Coast after his family emigrated there when he was a youngster.
"I met Angus while we were playing in England last winter in Cambridge," says the 21-year-old who was in the opposition team.
Over a few beers Angus convinced the former Taradale Cricket Club age-group member to return to his birth region to play for CHB.
"It was a good opportunity to catch up with friends and relatives, too," says the former Greenmeadows School pupil whose grandparents hail from Tikokino.
A first-grade rep in the Gold Coast, Tickner made the cut to the Queensland State emerging players' squad before arriving here in September.
"The Bay rep competition is of a better standard than the prem club here."
With the Bay men losing to Taranaki by an innings, they'll need Hawke Cup holders Manawatu to inflict a similar defeat on Taranaki this weekend to give the Bay a sniff of a challenge.
"We [the bowlers] got them [Taranaki] out for a below-par score but our batsmen didn't turn up," Tickner says.
Scott, who is studying at EIT to become a schoolteacher, says the Bay will need to claim maximum points with an outright victory this weekend and, fingers crossed, Manawatu will claim first-innings points.
"We can't worry about anything else but to win our game," says the player who will vie for the wicketkeeper's gloves with Thompson.
Talented batsman Thompson, 19, has found traction at the national under-19 tourney in Christchurch this week with Robson, a seamer from Waipukurau, after CD finished fourth.
Robson, who made his Bay debut in 2013, is relishing playing for CHB and his province.
"We're [HB] taking 20 wickets in a game. We're chopping and changing a bit with injuries and unavailability; whoever comes in is stepping up."
MATCH DETAILS
WHO: Hawke's Bay senior men v Wairarapa.
WHEN: Today, tomorrow from 11am.
WHAT: CD Zone 2, Blair Furlong Cup-qualfying match.
WHERE: Forest Gate Domain, Ongaonga.
Teams
HAWKE'S BAY: Mathew Sinclair (c), Graeme Tryon, Casey Rangi, Bronson Meehan, Angus Schaw, Blair Tickner, Charlie Robson, Jadyn Lennox, Jadyn Wiggins, Dominic Thompson, Liam Rukuwai, Scott Schaw.
Coach: Mathew Sinclair.
WAIRARAPA: Jamie Holmes (c), Robbie Speers, Paul Lyttle, Sean Jarvis, Calvin Ball, Stefan Hook-Sporry (the coach had yet to confirm several other starters).
Coach: Kevin Cooper.
