A rare double tie and a match-winning century were just some of the highlights from the first weekend of the Baywide Twenty20 Championship.
Element IMF Cadets batted first against Carrus Mount Maunganui and posted a solid target of 148/5. Marcel Collett top scored with 48 while Craig Baldry took two wickets.
In reply, Peter Drysdale kept Mount Maunganui in contention with a gritty 84 and they entered the last over needing 11 runs to win. The Mount seemed destined to finish second, with seven runs required from the last ball. However 20-year Mount veteran Nick Smith took the match to a super over, when he smashed the ball over the boundary ropes on the full.
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Mount Maunganui batted first in their extra over and hit a hard-fought six runs. Needing two to win on the last ball, Cadets were restricted to just one run to tie the match for the second time in the encounter and the points were shared.