First results are in:
Otago (202,691) 164ao (Thornton 4-34) vs. Brew Boys (246,113) 292 - 9 (Charlesworth 135, Veierbergen 4-56) - Brew Boys win by 128 runs
Zero Pillars and Hero Fillers (165,629) 83ao (Suksma 5-25) vs. Inner Western Wombats (239,461) 361-6 (Madavadi 110*) - Wombats win by 278 runs
Rocket City Trash Pandas (204,788) 261 - 8 (Hale 79) vs. The Dutch Ovens (180,396) 260-6 (Hossain 75) - Uneven/Sunny - RCTP win by 2 wickets
****atoos Cricket Club (213,580) 238 - 3 (Long 73*) vs. Ashgrove Astronauts (189,555) 176ao (Tomlinson 4-22) - ****atoos win by 62 runs
The match of the round turned out to undoubtedly be the Rocket City Trash Pandas vs. The Dutch Ovens. At 231-8 with only Jansen (OD avg 15.71), Phillip (7.67) and Freeborn (5.03) left to come, Jansen pulled it out of the bag with a cracking 44 off as many balls. With 2 overs remaining, 15 runs were still needed, but Jansen cracked consecutive boundaries off the last two balls of the penultimate over, bowled by Latulance (and assisted by a misfield from Neum) to make the final over a procession.