Singh snared 5-14 from eight overs against a Centennials Bulls side featuring several of Lithgow’s best senior cricketers.

The Bulls included Ryan Gurney, Dallas Tilley, Chris Redding and Josh Howarth who were part of the Lithgow Lightning’s Royal Hotel Cup winning side earlier this year.

However it was Singh who got the better of his older adversaries as the St Pat’s prevailed in the battle of Bathurst’s undefeated first grade teams.

Saints chased down Centennials’ total of 114 on a minefield Sportsground deck with three wickets in hand.

The win for Pat’s takes them to an outright lead on top of the BDCA ladder.

It already gives Pat’s as many one-day wins as they’ve achieved over the past two seasons.

“We’re ecstatic. Going from being a team winning only one or two of one-day games a season to now winning all three so far is really great to see,” Saints skipper Adam Ryan said.

“One of the big ones for Tanvir was picking up Andrew Brown early. He did a lot of damage to that top order.”

Bulls won the toss and elected to bat.

Singh, a year 10 student at La Salle Academy, gave Saints a dream start when he removed Bulls captain Andrew Brown (0) and Ryan Gurney (1) cheaply.

Inconsistent ball movement wreaked havoc on the batsmen but remaining opener Josh Toole was resolute at the crease.

An unfortunate bounce off the bowling of Bailey Webber removed Toole for 41, making it 3-52 in the ninth over.

From there Bulls were in survival mode as they struggled to piece together a significant partnership.

They held out until the 25^th over where they were bowled out.

Webber (3-46) and Mitch Taylor (2-20) picked up the remainder of the Bulls wickets alongside Singh’s clinical performance.

The pitch played a role in removing Pat’s opener Nick Broes (11) when he was caught behind.

The start of the chase didn’t get much better for the Saints when David Cant (7), Sam Hall (0) and Connor Slattery (1) were sent back to the pavilion before the 10^th over.

Luckily for Pat’s the Bulls’ 19 wides kept them within reach of the target.

A couple of small middle order contributions, the biggest being Ryan’s 25 runs, helped Pat’s maintain their undefeated record.

Pat’s caught the target in the 27^th over.

“Tooley was hitting some really good shots and if we didn’t get him out then it could have been a really long day for us,” Ryan said.

“Batting second meant we were able to see what attitude we needed to bring to the middle. I said to the guys that we just needed to play a bit boring and defend everything at the stumps and take our time.

“We didn’t really score, we just survived. We didn’t bowl as many sundries as them either, and that’s what really helped us out.