western australia 170 for 5 (Cartwright 73*, Philippe 42, Edwards 1-22) won New South Wales 169 (Davies 51, Parry 4-21, Agar 2-35) by five wickets
The recent dominant force in domestic cricket, WA recorded their latest limited-overs victory when they bowled out the hosts for just 169 at Cricket Central in Sydney on Sunday.
The left-arm quick Paris led in his first one-day appearance of the season, with Ashton Agar and Andrew Tye also claiming multiple wickets.
Cartwright stepped up to his first half-century of the season – the eighth of his career – to lead all scorers and steer the visitors safely past Nick Hobson’s winning target. There were more than 16 overs needed when Cartwright blasted the third six of his 80-ball innings.
WA is only the second state to claim a hat-trick of one-day titles and the first in more than two decades since NSW did it a second time after their hat-trick in 2002-03. It was WA’s sixth one-day title in the last decade and a record 17th overall since the competition’s inception in 1969.
NSW were sent into bat and got into a healthy position when top scorer Oliver Davies and Moises Henriques put on 74 for the fourth wicket. But captain Henriques fell when Agar claimed a sharp return catch off his own bowling, triggering a collapse. NSW lost their last seven wickets for just 34 runs and were bowled out in just 42 overs.
Davies hit the only six of the innings when he lifted Cooper Connolly over deep midwicket and left a pair of WA fielders scrambling for the ball in a thick scrub around the crease.
WA will be looking for more silverware when the Sheffield Shield campaign resumes in March, having won the four-day competition in each of the last two seasons.