Van Der Westhuis, Harry and Biddle help CYMS claim inaugural ODCA T20 Cup

PHOTO: Captain Riley Krause (centre) with the trophy and members of the teams that helped secure Orange CYMS Cricket Club the first ODCA T20 Cup.

Outstanding performances by young guns Luke Van Der Westhuis, Harry Harry and Cooper Biddle helped Orange CYMS Cricket Club win a drama-filled final of the inaugural Orange District Cricket Association T20 Cup on Saturday.

Van Der Westhuis hit a match-winning 35 not out from 24 balls - including the title-sealing boundary in the last over - after starting his innings with CYMS in all sorts of strife at 6-39 in pursuit of Orange City's 8-92.

"I knew that we needed two to win and saw that they brought the field up, so I just wanted to hit the ball as hard as I could," Van Der Westhuis said of the game's final stroke.

"When I saw it go over (Orange City captain Campbell Warburton) and then the boundary, it was such a good feeling, just unbelievable. I've never hit the winning runs in a game before. I was smiling from ear to ear."

Player of the Match Biddle had earlier taken the incredible figures of 3-5 off his four overs, while Harry took an economical 1-12 off four overs and then hit a decisive 15 runs after CYMS's early batters faltered.

The two-wicket win with five balls to spare capped off a dominant T20 season for the green and golds, who lost just one of their matches.

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Orange CYMS Cricket Club's 2022-23 ODCA T20 Cup players: Joel Blashki, Harry Harry, Will Davis, Steve Blackwood, Tom Wright, George Eleftheriou, Matthew Culverson, Riley Krause, Angus Gorman, Ben McNiven, Shaun Templar, Jackson Rodwell, Luke Van Der Westhuis, Steve Wotton, Mitch Boland-Nash, Charlie Miller, Cory Griffiths, Cooper Biddle, Travis Wright, Sam Garvin, Tom French, Isaac Rodd, Sam Giumelli, McCallum Cole, Shehan Fernando, AJ McNiven