Ollie Peake smashes last-ball six to win thriller for Melbourne Renegades over Perth Scorchers; Australia Test selectors know him well
Peake continued his unbeaten record of 42, including scooping a six with a deliberate wrist flick over the fine leg fence off Aaron Hardie’s final ball to win the match. Chasing Scorchers’ 127 and still needing four from the last ball to win, Renegades finished the match with a score of 6-130.
“I was a little bit out of breath and my mouth was dry, but it was pretty nice,” Peake said in Seven’s aftermath.
“This running pace once [required] We got up to 10 seconds, it was pretty clear we had to take [power] swell.
“HORSE [Turner]Since he’s such a good captain, he brought his gun shooters… they’re all gun shooters, but especially Jhye [Richardson]… he bowled a few overs in the middle and obviously came out of a Test match ruthlessly. We couldn’t really push it away and then [I] I got a little lucky with that catch and probably should have learned to stop trying to knock the ball down then.
“I was passing them around but I was lucky to find a pair behind the wicket and [I’m] “I’m really happy to finally get the win.”
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Peake revealed that he caught the eye of Renegades coach and former Australian star Cameron White in the dugout in the closing stages of the chase and the former big-hitting all-rounder told him to look for the ramp or scoop shot towards the shortest part of the ground.
“Then Sammy [Elliott, who was the not-out batsman at the non-striker’s end] He came down and said: ‘What do you think?’ And I was… I was still kind of oblivious and it was like I’m just going to stand still and see if I can slap it, and he said, ‘No, ramp it.’
“I was lucky to get it out of the way; there was wind too. That was probably on my mind a little bit; I didn’t know if I could handle it. [the fence].”
After Josh Brown (22) batted early, the Renegades cruised to 1-51 from six overs before being restricted to 4-23 in the next eight.
Peake bowled a 50-ball no-bounds at one stage before dominating a 42-run sixth wicket stand with skipper Will Sutherland (15), riding his good fortune to finish the BBL campaign on a surprising high.
Peake (center) was mobbed by his teammates after the match.Credit: Getty Images
Earlier, Gurinder Sandhu took 4-28 to take his season tally to 14 wickets at 14.71 to top the Golden Arm rankings.
Hardie (44) was sizzling but top-scored as the Scorchers faltered early and fell hard late on, losing 5-11 from 17 shots.
After Finn Allen (8) and Cooper Connolly (3) were dropped cheaply, Mitch Marsh, who looked solid in touch, feathered Hassan Khan’s arm ball to Mohammad Rizwan.
Three wickets fell in Sandhu’s final match as the Scorchers lost 5-16.
Peake, whose father Clinton played for Victoria in the 1990s and early 2000s, came onto the Australian selectors’ radar in October last year after guiding his state to victory over reigning champions South Australia with a winner in the opening game of the Sheffield Shield season. Peake remained unbeaten in his fifth first-class match with 70 points and finished second at Shield level.
Peake and NSW wonderkid Sam Konstas were also part of the Australian team that won the Under-19 World Cup last year.
from AAP
