Opener Richard Levi hit 84 runs and former England batsman Owais Shah 83 Friday as Western Cape Cobras won the South African 50-over championship by five wickets.
Eastern Cape Warriors made 242-9 and the Cobras reached 245-5 with nine balls to spare before a 13,500 crowd at Newlands to pocket the 110,000-dollar first prize.
Ashwell Prince (63) was the sole visiting batsman to pass the half-century mark while official man-of-the-match Charl Langeveldt (5-45) wreaked havoc assisted by leading South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn (2-58).
Cobras lost national Test team skipper Graeme Smith for only seven, but Levi (six fours and one six) and Shah (four fours and two sixes) came to the rescue and the home team always looked likelier winners.
'Rusty' Theron (2-54) and Simon Harmer (2-61) were the most successful Warriors bowlers while former Proteas star Makhaya Ntini had the satisfaction of dismissing Smith in the fifth over.
Cobras fielded four of the Test squad to face Sri Lanka next week -- Smith, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, Steyn -- and are eyeing a treble as they lead the four-day title race and the Twenty20 championship begins in February.
