Hilton Cartwright and Joel Paris were the chief architects of Western Australia’s five-wicket win over New South Wales in the One-Day Cup final – their third straight title. Western Australia set up their latest limited-overs victory by skittling the hosts for just 169 at Sydney’s Cricket Central on Sunday.
Left-arm quick Paris spearheaded the rout in his first one-day appearance of the season, with Ashton Agar and Andrew Tye also dominating the wickets column. However, it wasn’t all plain sailing in the run chase as Western Australia were given an almighty scare when they were reduced to 30 for 3 in the eighth over.
Cartwright stepped up with his first fifty of the season – the eighth of his career – to trump all scorers and steer the visitors safely past the target. There were more than 16 overs left when Cartwright blasted the third six of his 80-ball innings.
Western Australia 170 for 5 (Cartwright 73*, Philippe 42, Edwards 1-22) beat New South Wales 169 (Davies 51, Paris 4-21, Agar 2-35) by five wickets