For the second time a little over two months, a Western Australian team was denied white-ball silverware by a powerful New South Wales outfit in Sydney.

This time it was WA instead of Perth Scorchers and New South Wales rather than Sydney Sixers, but the result was the same.

The home side won the toss and batted first, posting a competitive 8-251 on a slow Bankstown Oval deck with young gun Jack Edwards scoring a mature and calculated century.

In reply, the reigning Marsh One-Day Cup champions, gunning for a third title in four years, were bowled out for 149 within 42 overs and never really looked in the hunt against a star-studded attack.

Once top-scorer Cam Green (36 off 55 balls) was run out in the 39th over going for a second run, any faint hope of a miracle comeback was lost in what ended up being an emphatic 102-run thrashing.

The last four wickets fell for just eight runs.

Returning allrounder Sean Abbott (4-23 off seven overs), in his first game back from a hand injury, tore the heart out of WA’s batting order alongside Test trio of Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon.

Abbott had the scalps of dangerous quartet Josh Inglis (29 off 40), Josh Philippe (14 off 31), Mitch Marsh (17 off 21) and Ashton Turner (1 off 4).

The Australian limited-overs international also took a brilliant running catch to get rid of D’Arcy Short (26 off 56) off Lyon and had the best strike rate (140) of any player who made double-figures, hitting a handy 10-ball 14 late in the first innings.

Ever-reliable seamer Hazlewood (0-29 off 10) proved impossible to get away, going for less than three runs an over and probably deserved a wicket or two to his name.

Australia’s greatest off-spinner Lyon (3-38 off 10) did his bit, cleaning up the tail after the earlier wicket of Short.

Tearaway Starc (2-32 off 7.3) was wayward at times but struck early in a predictably unpredictable opening over with consecutive wides before trapping in-form opener Sam Whiteman in front for a golden duck.

Earlier, man-of-the-match Edwards came to the crease with his team in massive trouble at 3-50 and fell in the final over of the innings for 108 off 122 balls.

The 20-year-old combined with left-handed run machine Dan Hughes (58 off 102) for a match-turning 118-run fourth-wicket stand.

The score was heading towards 270 before a late flurry of wickets from WA seamers Jason Behrendorff (3-46 off 10) and Mitch Marsh (9-24 off nine) stemmed the tide, taking 3-7 in the last 10 balls.

Hughes had more luck than the rest of his team but never looked at his damaging best.

He was dropped on two by Marsh at first slip off Cam Green in the fourth over and should’ve been run out by Liam Guthrie at mid-off on 40.

The fifth-highest run-scorer in Australian domestic one-day history received another slice of luck 11 when he was struck on the back leg in line with the stumps off Behrendorff, only to be given not out.

The home side had a few 50-50 LBW calls go their way, including WA openers Philippe and Whiteman who were struck in the pads by deliveries angling towards the leg-side.

Matthew Gilkes didn’t get the same fortune as his opening partner Hughes, caught short of his ground at the non-strikers end going back for a second run thanks to a brilliant throw from Whiteman in the deep.

The dismissal sparked a top-order collapse of 3-7 and a 10-over boundary drought during WA’s best period of the match.

Kurtis Patterson’s lean summer continued, chopping one onto his stumps off Liam Guthrie on one, while Marsh joined the party with a sharp caught-and-bowled to get rid of the in-form Jason Sangha (three).

Ollie Davies was hit in the helmet and box before he reached double-figures, but that didn’t stop him landing some blows of his own including a huge maximum over mid-wicket.

Edwards brought up triple-figures off 117 balls then hit Marsh out of the ground with his next.