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Gous 90* makes Castle Rockers inaugural ETPL champions

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Rockers won by 7 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)

andries-gous

Player Of The Match

, ECR

90* (61)

Player Of The Series

, RTD

449 runs

Andries Gous hits out, Belfast Wolves vs Edinburgh Castle Rockers, ETPL 2026 final, Malahide, September 20, 2026

Andries Gous hits out  •  ETPL

Edinburgh Castle Rockers 151 for 3 (Gous 90*, R Adair 23, Humphreys 1-29) beat Belfast Wolves 150 for 5 (Tector 84, Conway 29, Boult 2-21, Smuts 1-19) by seven wickets

Gous launched Glenn Maxwell to wide long-on on the last ball of the chase, and the ball went past a tumbling Chris Jordan for four. That summed the day up for Wolves, whose total of 150, set up by Tim Tector's 84 off 62 balls, proved below par.

Tector's lone battle

After Castle Rockers asked Wolves to bat first, Tector and Paul Stirling managed just seven runs in the first two overs. Tector, though, showed some intent when he whipped Trent Boult for six over fine leg. While the Castle Rockers bowlers kept a lid on the scoring, Tector held one up for Wolves. The shot of the day came when he gently pushed a length ball from Matt Watt, and perfect timing sent it trickling past mid-on for four.

Watt, Mitchell Santner and Tom Curran kept Wolves quiet - just 76 runs came off the first 11 overs despite the loss of only one wicket - with Tector on a patient 39 off 33 deliveries. But Wolves needed Tector to hang around. He raised fifty with back-to-back boundaries off Watt in the 13th over. Tector ended up scoring more than half of Wolves' total, but he took his time due to the lack of support from the other end.

Boult's inswing and perfect lengths

Boult got the new ball to swing into Tector and Stirling, and conceded just a single in the first over. He was hit for 11 runs in his second over, but got Stirling courtesy of a great catch from Jack Jarvis at cover point.

Boult was brought back for the 15th and 18th overs. He went yorker after yorker in the first over of his second spell, during which he dismissed Lorcan Tucker thanks to another brilliant catch - this time by JJ Smuts. That over went for only five runs, as did the 18th, in which Boult mixed slower balls and yorkers to finish with 4-0-21-2.

Adair vs Adair

Edinburgh's chase started with two brothers facing each other. Elder brother Ross Adair opened the batting, while younger Mark Adair had the new ball. It all went Ross' way to begin with - 4, wd, wd, 6, as Ross first guided one past the keeper, and then dumped a six over the sightscreen down the ground.

Wolves stuck with Mark, and he responded well. He gave just a single off the four balls of the third over, before dismissing Ross on the final delivery. The eventual result? Eight balls, 12 runs, two wides, and the wicket. All even?

 
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