In addition, Friday work commitments means allrounder Ross Kinnerley has to miss the the Taranaki game before rejoining the team for their weekend matches.
They have been replaced by Wanganui Collegiate's Hadleigh O'Leary and The Watson's Tech's Akhil Kumar respectively for their debuts.
O'Leary is the fourth current player from the school's First XI in the Wanganui side, coming in as a bowling allrounder.
He went on Collegiate's development tour of the West Indies back in January.
Canadian teenager Kumar, who captained the Ontario Under 17's at age 15, is in his second season of local club cricket and can make the side as their international player, given Tech clubmate Akash Gill is now qualified as a local.
Kumar followed Gill back to Whanganui last season, and did play well for the Under 15 representative team.
Otherwise, the team remains the same from the squad that lost on first innings points to Hawke's Bay at Nelson Park last weekend.
Traditionally the Chapple Cup, where the eight minor associations in Central Districts play each other in three matches across one weekend, is held before the start of the Furlong Cup two-day cricket season.
However, this year the first class Plunket Shield competition for the major associations started earlier in the second week of October, meaning accessing a venue and having Stags players available could not be done until now.
At last year's tournament, Wanganui lost to both Manawatu and Marlborough by six wickets after posting low totals, but got confidence from their ten wicket win over Wairarapa thanks to an unbeaten opening standing of 225.
However, both the Wanganui batsmen who scored hundreds in that match – English Greg Smith and professional Ben Smith – are no longer in the team.
The Wanganui team is
Charlie Hartley (player-coach); Chris Sharrock (Property Brokers United); John McIlraith, Angus Dinwiddie, Thomas Walshe (Marist); Dominic Lock, Ross Kinnerley, Akash Gill, Akhil Kumar (Watsons Tech); Ben Kelt, Sam Sherriff, Joel Clark, Hadleigh O'Leary (Wanganui Collegiate). Manager: Andrew Lock.