Hilton Cartwright and Joel Paris have powered Western Australia to a five-wicket win over NSW in the one-day cup final, securing a historic third straight title.
The recent dominant force in domestic cricket, WA set up their latest limited overs victory when they skittled the hosts for just 169 at Sydney’s Cricket Central on Sunday.
Left-arm quick Paris (4-21) led the rout in his first one-day appearance of the season, with Ashton Agar (2-35) and AJ Tye (2-39) also claiming multiple wickets.
It wasn’t all smooth sailing in the run chase as WA were given a huge scare, reduced to 3-30 in the eighth over.
Blues quicks Ben Dwarshuis, Jackson Bird and Jack Edwards all claimed early wickets before Cartwright (73 not out) joined opener Josh Philippe (42) at the crease and steadied the innings.
Cartwright stepped up with his first half-century of the season – the eighth of his career – to lead all scorers and steer the visitors safely past the victory target with Nick Hobson (26 not out).
WA reached 5-170 with more than 16 overs to spare when Cartwright blasted the third six of his 80-ball innings. He also hit seven fours.
Joel Paris celebrates after taking the wicket of Jackson Bird. (Photo by Jason McCawley/Getty Images)
WA are only the second state to claim a hat-trick of one-day titles and first in more than two decades, since NSW did it for the second time in 2001-03.
It was WA’s sixth one-day title in the last decade and a record-extending 17th overall since the competition began in 1969.
NSW were sent in to bat in Sunday’s final and reached a healthy position when top-scorer Oliver Davies (51) and Moises Henriques (32) put on 74 for the fourth wicket.
But captain Henriques fell when Agar claimed a sharp return catch off his own bowling, triggering a collapse.
NSW lost their last seven wickets for just 34 runs and were bowled out in just 42 overs.
Davies hit the only six of the Blues’ innings when he hoisted Cooper Connolly (1-41) over deep midwicket and left a pair of WA fielders searching for the ball in thick scrub surrounding the venue.
WA will go in search of more silverware when their Sheffield Shield campaign resumes in March, having won the four-day competition in each of the past two seasons.
13th Man
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Western Australia/Perth have won 7 of the last 9 domestic trophies available to be won in Australian Cricket - I'd suggest that means other states are lagging behind. When was the last time SA won anything? Tasmania? Heck take away the Sixers and NSW has been poor recently as well.
Sportstragic
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“ Other states don’t have that and that’s why they are lagging behind.” It’s nice that you think like that but it’s complete bollocks
CW Moss
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Walkley Award-winning headline :thumbup: :cricket:
qwetzen
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Aside from your declaration being wrong jamesb, it's depressingly naive. History teaches us that decisions in politics are usually made by unelected and faceless men. Cricket is the same.
qwetzen
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Isn’t Stuart Clark atrocious? Brad McNamara is just myopic The only NSW comms I can recall not being horribly biased is Richie. Of the current mob, MEW and Taylor, M are so biased I'm surprised that they don't keep falling over.
qwetzen
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He [Gilchrist] played all his state cricket in WA... 'Fraid not. His Shield debut was for NSW and he played a further eight games for them before moving west.
13th Man
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The best way to produce a quality national team is to have a strong domestic competition that means something. Western Australia understand that and have built a culture where playing for Western Australia is important - it isn’t just a pathway to the Australian team but it’s also an honour to wear the black and gold. Other states don’t have that and that’s why they are lagging behind.
Don Freo
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Bancroft is way above that ilk. Short is way below. Bancroft and Whiteman have no challengers as the best opening batting combination in state cricket. Add Green, Marsh, Hardie, Cartwright, Inglis...there is no better batting line up in the country.
Doctor Rotcod
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Yeah, real shame about Turner and Kelly. You'd think they'd be first pick.
Tufanooo
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He was born in NSW. There is no argument about it. Not really a grey area to debate.
Tufanooo
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Oh, that PSL blacklisting is because he had the huge fight with them on the payment But on the alcohol and issues with management, so did David Warner. Boy he was a charmed species.
The Bush
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It was more than just that, he had more general issues with alcohol, bad knees and issues with management. There were some strange happenings, like that odd social media post about his sexu@lity. And it wasn't just the Aus management that decided he wasn't worth it in the end, he's actually only 33 now, but doesn't even have a single T20 contract anywhere... PSL even blacklisted him.
Sportstragic
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Yer I have never understood that from the WA people on this site. I am a mad QLD sports fan but i dont care if we dont win any trophies for 20 years. As long as we are producing Australian players. Since the early 2000's when the ACB decided state cricket is only designed to produce Australian players the state games have become a lot more meaningless. I used to love the rivalry in the shield and 1 dayers in the 80's and 90's. The other sports have the rivalry. Cricket doesnt
Don Freo
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Absolutely no Stoinis. Well and truly a class below. He’ll be off playing in the Serbian Premier League. Morris definitely plays. Tye misses. He’s been great but getting more expensive these days. Cartwright possibly misses too. Bancroft and Whiteman both play. Turner ahead of Connolly. Paris has to stretch his games to see out a full Shield season. He’d miss.
Redcap
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“He played all his state cricket in WA “ __ Not quite – he debuted at first-class and list A level for NSW and was part of the Shield-winning NSW team in 1993.
DTM
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I get your point but someone might mount an argument that Gilchrist was born in NSW. He played all his state cricket in WA and we made him great but he was born in NSW!
DTM
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It would be interesting to see what WA's side looks like at full strength (50 over side). Maybe: Ingliss Bancroft/Whiteman Hardie Marsh Green Stoinis/Cartwright Connolly/Turner Agar Paris Richardson Berendorff/Tye Hard to fit them in.
Blink
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Dam. That headline got me in. Then I realised you were on about WA cricketers. WA do ok but more noticeably SA never do any good at all ever in Shield cricket. Why! How many Shields have they won this century?
Don Freo
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Mahli comes from up there too. I think Josh is a fraction older than Mahli and was over-age for South Africa.
The Bush
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There are certain positions though that are difficult to break into due to Australia's extreme depth in those positions on a consistent basis. The most obvious is fast bowling. I have no doubt that Joel Paris would have had a fine international career if given the chance, but he just happens to be the same age as a bunch of other fantastic fast bowlers (and injuries have not been his friend). Behrendorff is another. The other tough spot to get a gig is wicket-keeping - because there can be only one. So again, whilst Inglis has now got an opportunity, it probably means Philippe never will, even though is LA record is good, because they're the same age and there are other competitors. I'm not as convinced about WAs batting, they do seem to be 'blessed' with a good generation of FC/LA batters, but only Green and maybe Hardie look better than that. All of Bancroft, Cartwright, Short and Turner are only good at domestic level.