Peake went on to score an unbeaten 42, including a calculated wrist flick of a six over fine bar off the last ball from Aaron Hardie to win the match. Chasing the Scorchers’ 127, the Renegades still needed four from the last ball to win, finishing on 6-130.
“I’m a bit out of breath and my mouth is dry, but it was pretty cool,” Peake said after the Seven report.
“Up to the speed I run.” [required] got up to 10s, it was pretty clear we had to take it [power] overvoltage.
“ON [Turner]being such a good captain he brought his bowlers.. they are all bowlers but especially Jhye [Richardson]… to bowl a few overs over the middle and is clearly relentless when he walks out of a Test match. We couldn’t really get him away and then [I] he just got a little lucky with that catch and I probably should have learned to stop trying to push the ball down the ground.
“I was looking for them but I was lucky to get a couple behind the goal and. [I’m] I’m really happy that I won in the end.”
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Peake explained that he caught the attention of Renegades coach and former Australian star Cameron White in the dugout in the closing stages of the chase, with the former spectacular all-rounder telling him to look for a ramp or shot to the shortest part of the ground.
“Then Sammy. [Elliott, who was the not-out batsman at the non-striker’s end] he came down and said, “What are you thinking?” and I was… still kind of forgetful and I was like just stand there and see if I can slap it and he said, ‘No, run it’.
“I was lucky to get it from the middle – it was also into the wind. That probably played into my head a bit – that I didn’t know if I could get through it.” [the fence].”
After Josh Brown (22) got off to an early start, the Renegades were cruising at 1-51 from six overs before being restricted to 4-23 from the next eight.
At one stage, 50 balls were bowled without boundaries before Peake controlled 42 runs for the sixth wicket with skipper Will Sutherland (15) and rode her luck to finish her BBL campaign on a stunning high.
Peake (centre) was swarmed by teammates after the game.Credit: Getty Images
Earlier, Gurinder Sandhu took 4-28 to take his season tally to 14 wickets at 14.71 and move to the top spot in the Golden Arm rankings.
Hardie (44) was scratched but top-scored for the Scorchers, who faltered early and crashed hard late, taking 5-11 from 17 deliveries.
After Finn Allen (8) and Cooper Connolly (3) fell cheaply, Mitch Marsh, who looked in solid touch, delivered Hassan Khan to Mohammad Rizwan.
Three wickets fell in Sandhu’s last game as the Scorchers lost 5-16.
Peake, whose father Clinton played for Victoria in the early 2000s, rocketed onto Australian selectors’ radars in October last year after his match-winning knock guided his state to victory over reigning champions South Australia in the Sheffield Shield season opener. Peake scored an unbeaten 70 in his fifth first-class game and second at Shield level.
Peake and NSW wunderkind Sam Konstas were also in the Australian team that won last year’s Under-19 World Cup.
With AAP
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