Moonee Valley's first-up win in T20 turf

Moonee Valley recorded a strong victory in our opening match in the VTCA Twenty20 competition, beating Royal Park Brunswick on their home turf.
RPB are two grades higher than us in the VTCA this season, but we were in control all match in the December 5 opener.
At right: Our first-up winners: L-R. Back - Mitch Higgs, Sam Younghusband, Tain Piercy, Will Blair, Ruwan Jayaweera, Luke Brock and Brayden McGregor. Front - Suraj Weerasinghe, Jack Newman, Zac Nilsson and Luca Nimorakiotakis.
We saw a strong game from our "guest" player Will Blair, who plays with Premier club Northcote. Will is o stranger to Moonee Valley, as he played 90 junior games with us and is often found training in the Ormond Park nets.
Our bowlers stifled RPB to restrict them to 9/98 off their 20 overs, and Moonee Valley was always in control with the bat as we built up a score of 2/101 off 15.3.
Ruwan Jayaweera took a miserly 3/8 from his four overs, while Will Blair (2/18) and Mitch Higgs (2/17) were both impossible to get away off their four overs.
We only needed the four bats, and Sam Younghusband, Luke Brock, Luca Nimorakiotakis and Brayden McGregor all made double figures.
This is our first time in the VTCA T20 since 2019/20. We are also playing in the NWMCA Twenty20 competition this year - a comp we played since 2008, when we were one of the inaugural clubs.