Southern Districts won their first game of the SACA Premier Cricket Twenty20 Cup with victory over Prospect by five wickets on Saturday at Prospect Oval. Prospect won the toss and elected to bat first and got themselves into a reasonable position at 2/62 with solid contributions from Ross Richardson (22) and Izaac Boylan (21) before a collapse of 6/27 left the home side in disarray at 8/89. Some late order fireworks from Krutarth Suthar (23 from 7 balls) helped Prospect to 8/114 after their 20 overs. Ben Twohig (3/12) bowled a superb spell for the Stingrays and he was well supported by Huw Stone (2/31). Sunam Gautam (1/11) and Shaun Tanner (1/13) both bowled very tight spells to restrict the Pirates. The Stingrays run chase got off to an excellent start with skipper Josh Barrett whacking 29 from just 15 balls but once Barrett was dismissed, Southern Districts lost quick wickets to be in some trouble at 4/57 before Twohig (30 not out from 22 balls) and Gautam (26 from 27) regained control as the Stingrays knocked off the runs in the 16th over.

In other games, the second grade won by eight wickets, the third grade went down in a tight game by 12 runs while the fourth grade had a convincing 54-run win.