After a false start the Diamond Valley Cricket Association’s summer smash T20 competition kicked off on Tuesday night.
After having a combined T20 competition with the North Metro Cricket Association, the DVCA is having a standalone competition.
There are three divisions which are based on the weekend competition structure.
The first matches were set down for December 1 but were postponed after heavy rain in the lead up.
In Barclay Shield pool A group, Epping lost to Diamond Creek.
The Pingers made 7-95 from their overs with Dushantha Ranatunga top scoring with 21 not out.
Diamond Creek hit the winning runs in the second last over, finishing 5-96.
In Barclay pool B, Rosanna was too strong for Macleod.
Meanwhile, in the Money pool A, Greensborough beat Lower Eltham and Lower Plenty beat Montmorency.
In pool B, Lalor Stars and Plenty claimed wins.
The Stars made 4-163 from its overs against Banyule with Luke Miranda the star of the show with 95 off 49 balls.
He hit eight fours and six sixes.
Banyule never got close, finishing 9-121. Gourav Sharma took three wickets for the Stars.
Plenty made 6-137 against Bundoora Park in its match.
Billy McKeown made 51 not out for Plenty.
The Thunderbolts were in trouble early and while they had a late fightback, finished 9-118.
Riley Coleman top scored with 46.
In the Mash pool A group, Mernda and Hurstbridge started with wins against South Morang and Laurimar respectively.
The Demons made 9-115 from their overs with captain Alex Mitris top scoring with 30.
Elakian Elango took four wickets for South Morang.
Karl Heckmann led the way in the run chase for South Morang but he had little support as his side was restricted to 4-012.
Heckmann made 69 with the next highest score 12. It was all single wicket takers for the Demons.
The Power made 7-112 from its overs against Hurstbridge.
Noah Key top scored with 23.
Hurstbridge hit the winning runs with nearly five overs remaining, finishing 7-113.
Jacob Carruthers made a match winning 53.
