Shield Round 5 - Half the season over
Queensland steamrolled Tassie, SA put up a good second innings fight but fell short of declaration target set by WA. NSW and the VIcs played out an even draw despite their positions on the ladder in a game shortened by rain.
NSW still on top and haen't lost a game yet, The Bananabenders have 3 wins and the Sandgropers with 2 wins are battling for second spot. The Croweaters and the Vics are still winless at the halfway mark while the Apple eaters are perched in between.
Star of the round was Heazlett from Qld with 135 out of 240 while Steketee had his best game of his career with 5/19 in the first innings and match figures of 9/51. Smiling George made 82 out of 150 in Tassies 2nd dig. Pucovski from Vic made 82 in his only hit.
It was a batsman's game at the WACA, young Green made 126, SMarsh showed his potential with 41 and 102no, Inglis made 91 and Stoinis was runout on 79. Carey enhanced his career prospects with 143 while Ferguson led the 2nd innings runchase with 123.
WA's Kelly was the only bowler in the wickets with 5/63 in the 2nd innings and 8 for the game.
Runs
WA SMarsh 586, Green 394
SA Cooper 568, Hunt 367
Vic Maddinson 448, Harris 289
Tas Doolan 441, Wade 353
NSW Henriques 337,Hughes 301
Qld Labuschgne 260, Street 214
Smarsh now the leading run scorer, and with Cooper, are the only 2 over 500 runs
The only change to the list from the previous round was Street now being second for Qld, all other positions for the other teams remaing the same, also the Qld pair being 19th and 24th on the overall list.
The 2 leading teams on the table have the leading runscorers with the lowest aggregates.(Henriques 8th overall).
Bowling
Qld Gannon 23, Steketee 18
Tas Bird 20,,Meredith 16
SA Sayers 18,WAgar 15
NSW Starc 17, Conway 14
Vic Siddle 15, Pattinson 14
WA Kelly 13,Stoinis 12
No bowler has 25 wickets
Steketee now up to 3rd on the overall list
WA's Kelly is 12th on the overall list.
Stumpers (ct/st - runs@ave)
NSW Neville 18/2 213@35.5
Qld Pierson 18/- 180@25.7
WA Inglis 17/- 286@31.7
Tas Doran 14/2 77@26.3
Vic Harper 13/1 158@22.6
SA Carey 10/- 307@61.4 (3 games)
2 stumpings for Neville, For Tassie Doran has overtaken Paine in only 2 games
Good game for Keepers with the bat Inglis 91,Neville 50, Carey 143, Carey now 12th overall runscorer
Twirley men
O'Keefe 10@19, Swepson 10@21, Lyon 7@36, Holland 8@59, Labuschagne 4@26, T.Andrews @110, Maxwell
3@75.7,A.Zampa 3@88, A.Agar 3@136
O'Keefe with 5/80 against the Vics is now the leader, 19th overall, Swepson is 20th overall, The rest make sorry reading,Holland starting get some wickets but at a cost.
Next round starts 7/12