None more so than Uni captain Nick Grubb, who shattered lingering hopes of a second win of the season for Greater Northern Raiders.

Grubb hit a fine 51 not out off 62 balls in the end to guide the students to victory with 10 balls to spare.

The innings took on greater magnitude for not only missing Faulkner, who was still in the United Arab Emirates for the cash-rich global T10 League, but also without Australian captain Tim Paine as he turned his focus to the First Test against the Indians in Adelaide on Thursday.

Grubb turned the game around after walking to the crease at 3-94, chasing 190.

Carter Hansen anchored the hosts with a patient 73 from 129 balls, but Raiders coach Andrew Gower pointed to a late half-century from Grubb as a game-changer.

“We needed to break their partnership – we had a couple of opportunities to get Grubb out and a couple of catches went down,” he said.

“So that would’ve turned us around if we grabbed one of those two chances. 

“He was clearly the guy who had the intent of taking the game away from us.”

The Raiders did have their rivals running down a run-a-ball for the last 10 overs.

Spinners James Curran and Alex Kerrison contained the students, conceding just 59 runs in 20 overs.

Hansen and Grubb still went about to calmly put Uni in sight of the six-wicket win, reaping the rewards of a matchwinning 90-run stand for the fourth wicket.

But Gower could still take a lot of positives from the third visit to Hobart.

“We took it to the 49th over at least, so we were always in the game for most of the day,” he said. “I think a couple of unlucky things didn’t go our way and unfortunately the result was against us.”

Things could not have started any worse for the Raiders. They slumped to 2-3 at the end of the first over.

Captain Miles Barnard was out for a golden duck and the rookie side’s leading runscorer Jake Williams was gone for three by the time Andrew Kealy warmed up and turned to fine leg.

Brodie Hayes and Alex Taylor resurrected the innings to take Raiders past 100.

Hayes went first for 47 and Taylor followed just 11 runs later for 50 to bring Gower’s men back at an unsure 4-112.

“Hayes and AT went about building a really good partnership and it put us back on par,” Gower said.

“But we really needed probably one of those two to go on and score really big to set us over 200.

“We thought par was that and needed either of them to be 70 or 80 at the end of the innings, which would have made the difference from getting 190 and 210-plus.”