Andrew Puttick played a captains knock with an unbeaten 104 to steer Cape Cobras to a mammoth 193 for four against Otago Volts in a Group C match of the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament at the Rajiv Gandhi International stadium on Saturday.
Puttick was severe on all bowlers as he clobbered 12 boundaries and three huge sixes to notch up the maiden century of the tournament.
Apart from Puttick, last match hero JP Duminy (32 off 25) and Justin Ontong (39 not out) played short cameos to help Cobras pile up the huge target on the board.
Dimitri Mascarenhas was the pick of the bowlers for Volts, scalping two victims for 20 runs from his four overs.
Contrary to the score, the Cobras did not have good start to their innings as opener Herschelle Gibbs' flop show continued with the right-hander returning to the pavilion on individual score of one.
He inside edged one to wicket-keeper Derek de Boorder off Mascarenhas. Henry Davids (12 runs off 13 balls) looked promising, hitting two fours in his short little innings but Mascarenhas dismissed him, caught by Warren McSkimming with the Cobras scoreboard reading 40 for two after 5.1 overs.
Duminy continued from where he left against Royal Challengers Bangalore and made a quickfire 32 with the help of six boundaries and two sixes before Ian Butler packed him off, caught by Aaron Redmond.
But Puttick, in Ontong's company, hammered the Volts' bowlers to all parts of the ground to pile up 60 runs in the last five overs.
Ontong struck two boundaries and four huge sixes in his 14-ball cameo.
