IT was a mostly positive start to the season for the Drews, sitting in the top two for much of the first half of the season, before a round eight defeat triggered a trifecta of losses to drop the team to fifth at the break.

Surpsingly, the Drews seemed to flourish during the Twenty20 games, a format which the team traditionally struggles to adapt to, but the group reached the T20 final, the only short format game it lost for the season.