While Broes now plays his club cricket in Canberra, he was one of the Saints' best in season 2018-19 when they won the Bathurst District Cricket Association first grade premiership.

He contributed with both bat and ball that season and on Friday at Wade Park in the Twenty20 format cup competition, Broes did so again.

He belted 61 off 49 deliveries to help the Saints to 5-157 after they were sent it to bat, then claimed 3-12 off his four overs to see Colts reach 7-91 in reply.

"He did a tremendous job," Saints skipper Adam Ryan said of Broes.

"He's just gone to another level since he's been away. It was just fantastic watching the way he approached the game.

"The way he thinks about the game now, he's very smart about the way he played the game and even gave me batting advice when we were out there.

"Then when he came on to have a bowl and I said 'How about this?' with our fielding selections, he was like 'No I'm only going to bowl here'. He was just very smart about the way he played."

While Broes impressed with the bat, he was not the only one. He and fellow opener Andrew Brown (23 off 22) put on 54 runs in the first seven overs.

Russell Gardner (1-15 off four), who played his first Royal Hotel Cup match back in 2006, sent Brown on his way as he took a catch off his own bowling, then played a role in running out Connor Slattery for three.

But Broes, who hit six boundaries and one six, and Derryn Clayton (34 not out off 24) helped the Saints to a handy total.

"I was very pleased with that, the game just flowed. We always aim for that 160 if possible and I tell the boys that 120 balls, hit 120 singles, knock off 10 of those and turn them into boundaries and you hit 150," Ryan said.

"If you only aim for 10 boundaries over the 20 overs just makes it more realistic and more simple I guess. The boys did a really good job, nearly everyone's strike rate was above 100.

"We just focus on being busy, take as many singles as possible and wait for that bad ball.

"Derryn, he just rode his bat which is awesome.I think he hit four over slips or where slips would've been if they'd had them off that top edge, but that's what you get when you go that hard at the ball."

In reply Colts struggled to form partnerships and as wickets fell at regular intervals, the required run rate climbed from 7.85.

Opener Dave Sellers (36 off 42) tried hard to keep Colts in the contest, but when he was stumped by Brown off Broes' bowling to make it 6-65, his side needed more than 14 runs an over to win.

It was too big as task as Craig Berry (15 not out off 30) was the only other Colt to reach double figures.

Aside from Broes, Mitch Taylor (1-13 off four) and Angus Parsons (1-14 off four) bowled well for the Saints.

"Gussy Parsons bowled really well, to only have the 14 runs off his four overs in a Twenty20 and that was Gussy's first time bowling, for a young fella in that sort of environment was pretty good," Ryan said.