Winning the toss the Rhinos batted first.
Against a tight Nathalia bowling attack the Rhinos lost a few early wickets to be in some strife.
At the end of the third over, opener Hamish Baker was dismissed for three off the bowling of Dylan Cunningham caught by Zander Quinn to have the Rhinos 1/11.
In was then the young Zander who struck in consecutive overs starting the next over, removing other opener Lachlan Holloway for six caught by Scotty Morris.
He then had Melisha Deshapriya out, bowled, and Rhinos fill-in Rathika Rajakumara out LBW, both without scoring.
After eight overs the Rhinos were 4/19.
From there, other Rhinos fill-in Asantha Singappuli and Griegan French batted to the start of the 17th over reaching 4/64.
Singappuli was then removed for 30 by the bowling of Ash Quinn caught by Lachie Wilkins.
French and new batter Andrew Hogan made it to 5/82 by the 24th over.
French then departed for 31 caught by Ash off the bowling of Morris.
Darcy Finn was the new batter and made six off six balls before being caught by Toby Leach in the next over off Luke Quinn’s bowling.
Hogan then was out in the next over for four caught by Leach off Morris’ bowling.
Charlie Hillier was then out four balls later bowled at the end of the Morris over without scoring.
After 26 overs the Rhinos were 9/89.
From there Brad Todd and Rory Bartlett put on a 42-run last wicket partnership before Todd was bowled by Ash Quinn for a run a ball 37.
Bartlett finished on five not out as the Rhinos were all out for 131 from 34.3 overs.
In reply the Rhinos again bowled well, but the target proved too small to defend.
Bartlett struck first at the start of the ninth over getting Zander for 26 caught by Rajakumara.
Deshapriya then came on and took two wickets in his first two overs.
The other opener Logan Campbell was out for six caught by Rajakumara, and Leach was out for a duck caught by Todd.
After 13 overs Nathalia were 3/40.
After that, new batters Gus Frostick and Ash Quinn showed they were hard to dismiss.
They batted for 20 overs together, reaching 3/98.
Charlie Hillier then got the breakthrough of Ash Quinn out for 31 caught by Joice Mathew.
It wasn’t enough however with Nathalia getting to 4/125 before Singappuli got the next wicket Ewan Congues bowled for 18.
Needing seven runs, Morris hit a six and a four to finish the game on 10 not out while Frostick finished on 35 not out.
Nathalia reached the target after 39 overs with six overs spare to hand the Rhinos a five wicket loss.
