Tigers captain Adam Bromfield produced his third century in as many weeks and while it was not as polished as his previous tons it was enough to give ORC a dominant first innings lead which City Blue could not chase down.

In bright and sunny conditions on Saturday it was City Blue captain Adam Lewis who won the toss and elected to send the Tigers in on a Morse Park 2 pitch that had be kind to ORC side in previous weeks.

"They put us into bat which I didn't understand, I suppose they thought with Hanrahan in their side they thought we would hand it to them," Bromfield said.

"We would have batted without a doubt, I don't think you win a toss in a grand final to bowl first in a grand final."

It was the City Blue bowling attack led by Ryan Smiles (4-40 off 18 overs) and Hanrahan (2-73 off 24) which looked to have the upper hand with ORC 2-27.

However, it was captain reliable, Bromfield, who came to the Tigers' rescue dispatching nine boundaries on his way to his third consecutive century.

A fortnight ago Bromfield scored his first century of season racking up 103 in the Tigers 53-run win over Rugby Union. At the time he laughed at suggestions he might score three centuries in a row, yesterday, after it came to fruition he still preferred to congratulate the other players in the team than focus on his efforts.

"I didn't get the runs during the year, we made the semi-finals based on a solid team effort it just so happened that I got the runs during the finals series," Bromfield said."Like I said all week there are other guys that could have scored the runs, it is just so that I did."Bromfield (106) stayed at the crease for the majority of ORC's innings as Wayne Sellers (20), Adrian Mielke (16), Myles Emanual (20), Justin Fardon (20) and Darryl Gibson (25) tried their best to form a big partnership.