A match ending in a super over and special innings of 142 off 41 balls were among the highlights of the Western Suburbs Churches and Community Cricket Association T20 competition on Tuesday night.
The competition entered its second round with the action heating up across all the divisions.
League registrar Dean Bryden said the competition was going from strength to strength each season.
“We’ve got 24 sides this season,” he said. “The standard of the competition is up there with the best in the state.
“The amount of great players we have. We can have four guest players in the top division.
“I’ve been playing for nearly 30 years and it’s amazing to see this quality.
“It’s been really good to see the growth from a league perspective.”
This season the competition is split into four divisions.
The top division has the four finalists from last season’s T20 competition along with the teams that finish fifth and sixth.
There’s development teams in the lower grades with some teams fielding multiple teams while clubs from other competitions are entering teams as well.
For Bryden and his Altona Sports division 1 side it was a good night as they beat Tarneit Central in a super over.
“Tarneit Central has won it the last two years and kicked out Altona Sports last year,” he said.
Tarneit made 163 as it was bowled out in the 17th over. Amrit Nagra top scored with 43.
Prashant Krishna took four wickets for Altona Sports.
Netherlands captain Scott Edwards showed his class at the top of the order for Altona Sports with 60.
Bryden, who is Sports T20 captain, said when it came down to the wire, the message was clear.
“We knew we had Scott for the super over, so it was just push it out to the last ball and push it to a super over.”
Altona Sports finished with 9-163 from its over.
Rajbir Brar took four wickets for Tarneit.
Tarneit finished 2-1 off its super over with Tom Harrison taking a wicket and getting a run out.
Edwards then came out and hit 20 not out off the super over to seal the win for Altona Sports.
Elsewhere, Glen Orden made it two in a row with a big win against Truganina United.
The Thunder made 3-262 from its 20 overs with vice-captain Jagmeet Brar making 142 off 41 balls.
He hit 16 sixes and nine fours.
Truganina finished with 9-104 in reply.
Ravikumar Tailor took 5-10 to be the pick of the bowlers.
Williams Landing won the other match, beating Manor Lakes.
Williams Landing made 3-215 with Harneet Singh top scored with 122 off 51 balls.
Manor Lakes fell well short, finishing 9-154.
