Australia’s Under 19 World Cup captain remained cool, calm and collected as he navigated his Melbourne Renegades through a hectic finish in the west<\/p>\n
Full final over: Wonderkid Oliver Peake wins match with last-ball six<\/p>\n
Young batting star on the rise Ollie Peake displayed nerves of steel to ignore a chorus of boos and crunch a last-ball six to launch the Melbourne Renegades to a nail-biting four-wicket win over the Perth Scorchers.<\/p>\n
After knocking the Scorchers over for 127 from 19.2 overs at Perth Stadium on Wednesday night, the Renegades almost made a meal of the modest chase before Peake came to their rescue.<\/p>\n
Perth Scorchers v Melbourne Renegades | BBL|15<\/p>\n
With four to win off the last ball, Peake, who headed straight from the ground to the airport bound for Africa where he will captain Australia at the under-19 World Cup, shimmied across in pre-meditated fashion and paddled Aaron Hardie’s full delivery over fine leg deep into the stands.<\/p>\n
The Renegades’ pursuit had looked forlorn in the 17th over when Peake was given out for 15 with a soft signal after Scorchers captain Ashton Turner snared a difficult tumbling catch.<\/p>\n
But Peake was reprieved – and subsequently hounded by the parochial Perth crowd – after replays showed the ball touched the ground while in Turner’s hand as he somersaulted backwards.<\/p>\n
“It’s pretty surreal,” Peake said.<\/p>\n
“To do it here in front of all the Scorchers fans is pretty special and what you grow up dreaming of doing.<\/p>\n
“I had a bit of luck and (I’m) just happy that it all paid off tonight.”<\/p>\n
After Josh Brown (22) teed off early, the ‘Gades were cruising at 1-51 from six overs before being restricted to 4-23 from the next eight.<\/p>\n
At one stage 50 balls passed without a boundary before Peake dominated a 42-run sixth-wicket stand with skipper Will Sutherland (15) and rode his good fortune to finish his BBL campaign on a stunning high.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Gurinder Sandhu snared 4-28 to take his season tally to 14 wickets at 14.71, moving into top position on the Golden Arm leaderboard.<\/p>\n
Aaron Hardie (44) was scratchy but top-scored for the Scorchers, who wobbled early and crashed hard late, losing 5-11 from 17 deliveries.<\/p>\n
After Finn Allen (8) and Cooper Connolly (3) fell cheaply, Mitch Marsh, who had looked in solid touch, feathered Hassan Ali’s arm-ball to Mohammad Rizwan.<\/p>\n
Three wickets fell in Sandhu’s last over as the Scorchers lost 5-16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s Under 19 World Cup captain remained cool, calm and collected as he navigated his Melbourne Renegades through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-397673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}