After being plucked from Sydney premier cricket to fill-in for the injured Peter Nevill, the wicketkeeper produced the match-winning play as the Melbourne Renegades kept their finals hopes alive in a one-run thriller against Brisbane Heat. 

Unfortunately it wasn’t enough for the Renegades to make the final four, with the Sydney Sixers usurping them courtesy of superior run-rate on Saturday night.

Harriott and his Renegades team-mates watched that, and the preceding game between the Perth Scorchers and Hobart Hurricanes, which could have also had a bearing for them, after arriving back in Melbourne.

The 24-year-old said he was “still coming to terms with it” when he spoke with The Leader.

On Wednesday he was “sitting at work”. Two days later he was playing in front of a sold-out Gabba.

“It was a great atmosphere,” he said.

The game finished in dramatic fashion with Harriott gathering and throwing the ball down the other end to run Mitchell Swepson out off what was supposed to be the final ball of the match but was ruled a wide.

“I wasn’t going to throw it but then he started running,” Harriott said.

It was a fitting finale to a crazy final over with the momentum seeming to swing with every ball.

“When they needed 18 off the last over I thought they were no chance,” Harriott said.

Then Joe Burns came out and launched successive sixes.

Harriott admitted he thought they “were gone” then, but fortunately for the Renegades, Burns holed out the next ball.

“As soon as we got him I knew we were a chance,” he said.

The Northern Districts gloveman had in the previous over taken his second catch for the game to remove Jack Wildermuth after claiming a top edge from Jimmy Peirson on the first ball of the second over.

“It was good to get into the game early,” Harriott said.

“(But) I was definitely nervous under that catch.”

He couldn’t be happier with the way things went for him, and said it was a great experience keeping to Renegades spinners Brad Hogg and Sunil Narine.

“They are two of the best spinners in world cricket, especially in Twenty20 cricket,” he said.

Harriott also had “the best seat in the house” as Heat skipper Brendon McCullum thrashed the equal second-fastest BBL half-century.

”He is the one of the cleanest striker in the world. It was good to see it first hand,” he said.

With his Renegades duties now over, Harriott’s focus switches back to Northern Districts.