Recruit Matt Whitton (46 not out) and Liam Venn (35 not out) both had confidence-boosting knocks, while the team as a whole will be buoyed by the five-wicket win over the Bulls.

“They’re a team we’re potentially taking on in finals, we had to make sure we were ‘on’ from ball one,” Hunger said. The Bulls scored rapidly early, but Terang kept knocking over wickets and bowled the visitors out for 131.

Liam Geary (25 runs) made a strong start to the chase, but after losing three quick wickets, it was a pivotal 68-run partnership between Tommy Moloney (43) and Tim Keane (37) that got Terang over the line. They went on to post 6-215.

Three Mortlake players made half-centuries in a win over Noorat while Michael Vogels took four wickets in Heytesbury Rebels’ 42-run win over Cobden.