Victory 197 and 32 for 0 (Kellaway 20*, Harris 11*) Western Australia 186 (Connolly 56, Goodwin 36, Moody 4-41, Siddle 3-10, Sutherland 3-32) for 43 races
Connolly threatened to put the game on his head before Victoria regrouped and fired WA for 186 in his first tickets. The Campbell Kellaway and Marcus Harris openers promoted WA’s attack in the last minute when Victoria built a 43 -racing leadership in stumps on day two.
The game has been a sap at all times with both teams firmly in the race to play southern Australia in the last one from March 26. They are fighting for the direct victory necessary to overcome Queensland and Nueva Wales del Sur, who are in trouble in their respective parties.
Connolly rescued the first WA entries from the ruins in 111 for 8 with a upper 56 of 104 balls on a green surface that has strongly favored bowling players, although the field seemed to flatten towards the backend of the day.
A difficult time happened in foreign conditions during his debut in the test in Sri Lanka and in the Champions Trophy, but continued to build an impressive record at the shield level with his fourth century of his first six entries.
While Connolly played a little within himself given the circumstances and conditions, he showed his class with eight four and a six.
WA had previously resumed at 10 by 1 having lost Captain Sam Whiteman just before the stumps the first day. After starring in a tour of five wickt, Corey Rocchiccioli hoped to be a nuisance for victory and did not seem without problems until it was trapped on the side of the leg for 16, outside Sutherland, in a dismissal similar to Whiteman.
He took Jayden Goodwin, who perhaps was fortunate to keep his place on the team before Sam Fanning has only spent 10 once in his last five Shield entries. Goodwin had not yet scored when he had a nervous moment after a strong Sutherland cry for short leg capture.
But he survived and had a respite from the descent Todd Murphy, who entered the attack in the ninth place, but struggled to find its length. It launched too short and did not produce the same type of threat as the Rocchccioli counterpart, which is higher and is able to produce more rebound.
The Cameron Bancroft opener waited for Stonewall as he did in the last match against NSW with a vital 86 of 277 balls in the second WA entries. But Siddle was rewarded for his precision when he made Bancroft exceed the second slide by 14 when Wa fell to 35 by 3.
Hilton Cartwright reached the fold in a good way after having achieved a maximum of 171 of the first class of 171 not against NSW, continuing a star season in which he is currently the main scorer of the shield.
Cartwright’s trust was evident when the Wickt skipped in Murphy and stroked a beautiful cover of the cover to make fun of the conditions. But he could not be re -enforced after lunch and took off a little of a length delivery of Sutherland to trigger a collapse of 5 by 35.
Siddle and Sutherland bowed magnificently in conjunction with their perfectly suitable lengths for this difficult surface.
The normally extravagant Connolly began with caution before opening his account in his ninth delivery when he broke a limit through the point, a rare sutherland ball that had only leaked nine races of 11.5 overs to that point.
The former Wa Quick Moody complemented Sutherland and became well in his debut in Victoria and Shield’s first game in two years. Demonstrating a replacement worthy of Spearhead Scott Boland, which did not make the trip to Perth due to knee, Moody enjoyed a surface that had more rhythm than the game of the previous day while unleashing its long race period.
Victoria seemed ready for a practice advantage of the first tickets before being frustrated by an association of 53 races of Ninth Wickt between Connolly and Cameron Gannon, who is a further than capable lower order batter.
Connolly did not have many opportunities to counterattack, but kept the races marking against Murphy and hit the only six of the tickets connecting Moody on the ground construction site. He received healthy applause after reaching his half century with 97 balls and looked at an unexpected advantage for WA.
However, Connolly was disappointed after he was awarded caught behind Siddle in a decision with which he clearly disagrees. Evergreen Siddle ended with excellent figures of 3 for 10 of 13.2 overs, since he made his part in keeping the hopes of the Victoria title alive.
Tristan Lavalette is a journalist based in Perth
