The game was being viewed as a vital one, with both teams having indifferent starts to the year, and Hornridge looking to extract revenge from the defeat that Andamooka had handed them earlier in the season.

Brad Cox won the toss and elected to bet, with Travis Busch and Kapil Gohel looking relatively comfortable in the middle, working the ball around into gaps.

The opening pair got Hornridge up to 20 before Busch was bowled by a beauty of a delivery by Ben Lock, a yorker that took out Busch’s middle stump.

One of Hornridge’s favourite son’s in Dylan Male joined Gohel in the middle after getting in the captains ear about “how he opens for his team in Adelaide”.

Male and Gohel looked to be seeing the ball well until Gohel skied a ball to mid off for 17and Ben Lock pulled off an incredible catch in close to dismiss Male with the score at 3/39.