Western Australia 170 for five (Cartwright 73*, Philippe 42, Edwards 1-22) beat New South Wales 169 (Davies 51, Paris 4-21, Agar 2-35) by 5 wickets

The latest dominant pressure in home cricket, WA arrange their newest limited-overs victory after they skittled the hosts for simply 169 at Sydney’s Cricket Central on Sunday.

Left-arm fast Paris led the rout in his first one-day look of the season, with Ashton Agar and Andrew Tye additionally claiming a number of wickets.

Cartwright stepped up along with his first half-century of the season – the eighth of his profession – to steer all scorers and steer the guests safely previous the victory goal with Nick Hobson. There have been greater than 16 overs to spare when Cartwright blasted the third six of his 80-ball innings.

WA are solely the second state to say a hat-trick of one-day titles, and the primary in additional than 20 years since NSW did it for the second time after their hat-trick in 2002-03. It was WA’s sixth one-day title within the final decade, and a record-extending seventeenth total for the reason that competitors started in 1969.

NSW had been despatched in to bat and reached a wholesome place when top-scorer Oliver Davies and Moises Henriques placed on 74 for the fourth wicket. However captain Henriques fell when Agar claimed a pointy return catch off his personal bowling, triggering a collapse. NSW misplaced their final seven wickets for simply 34 runs and had been bowled out in simply 42 overs.

Davies hit the one six of the innings when he hoisted Cooper Connolly over deep midwicket, and left a pair of WA fielders trying to find the ball in thick scrub surrounding the venue.

WA will go searching for extra silverware when their Sheffield Protect marketing campaign resumes in March, having gained the four-day competitors in every of the previous two seasons.