Such a remarkable result would have been six times more than New Town has won over a comparable two years to the fledgling rivals.

But Raiders coach Andrew Gower did not want to talk up the term potential after pursuing 360 for victory.

"I spoke to the boys in the rooms that I am a bit over the word potential and I am a bit over blokes being satisfied with 20s and 30s," he said.

"To win games of cricket, you need them scoring 80s, 90s and 100s and to go on.

"Obviously, Miles batted fantastically upfront and he had set the game up really well with Hayesy. But we just lost wickets at critical times in our last hour or so."

Gower's charges lost 6-45 inside the final hour while on a batting-friendly wicket to go down by only six runs at the NTCA No.2 Ground.

That collapse included the Raiders sailing from 4-309 to sinking to 7-311 that changed the course of the run home.

"I'm very disappointed at four past 300, two set batters in and the game's on our terms. I'm gutted to be honest to lose the game," he said.

Greater Northern openers Miles Barnard and Brodie Hayes looked to have set up the win with a commanding 164-run stand from the top.

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Barnard had been brilliant before nerves got the better and the skipper was caught out from offspinner Bill Dodd for one run short of a maiden Premier League century.

The 28-year-old battered 12 fours and two sixes for his 99 off 130 deliveries. Hayes went on to notch up a typical workmanlike 76 off 190 that included 10 boundaries.

But the Burnie Hurricanes talent was caught up in the middle of three batters falling in the space of four overs.

Raiders wicketkeeper Sam Elliston-Buckley resurrected the innings with an already established Jake Williams.

The pair put on a further 105 for the fifth wicket before Elliston-Buckley had been removed for 60, Williams for 44 and Cooper Anthes on the next ball for a golden duck.

Jono Chapman had taken it upon himself to reduce the equation with a quickfire 17 off 18 balls to get within 24 runs of the target before the Westbury allrounder was the first of Tawanda Mupariwa's three late-order wickets.

The former Zimbabwean Test player found the edge of James Beattie's bat for nine and then had Spencer Hayes scooping one to mid-off for 14 to end the match.

"We just keep going hard, we just keep playing silly shots rather than being patient because the ground is fast and we know we're going to get four-balls, but we just lack the patience," he said.

"But I'm also really furious on some of the senior players for not getting the job done."

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