http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 Domestic - Day 3 Update
At the close of play on day three of the seventh Sheffield Shield match of the domestic season, which is played between Queensland and Western Australia at the Western Australia Cricket Association ground (WACA), on November 3, 2011, the visitors were leading
by 320 runs with six second innings wickets in hand.
The visitors are in complete control of the match and they would be looking towards a victory on the last day of the match.
The star of the show for Queensland on the third day was opening batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ryan-Broad-c2384, who scored a brilliant hundred to secure the advantage for his team.
The visitors started the third day with 140 runs on the board for the loss of merely two wickets and they carried on with the good work in the morning session. Broad and Peter Forest scored a mammoth 175 runs for the third wicket partnership. However, the
only surprising thing was their strike-rate, as the two batsmen scored their runs very slowly, otherwise, they could have put their team in a position to declare on the third day.
Western Australia picked up a couple of crucial wickets later in the day to halt the progress of Queensland. However, the visiting team stands in a commanding position. At stumps, Queensland had scored 268 runs for the loss of four wickets in their second
innings, which means that they are leading by 320 runs because of the 52 runs lead of the first innings.
Broad scored 135 runs off 225 balls, in which he struck 25 boundaries. Forest was unbeaten at the end of the day at 78 runs, which came off 199 balls, which came with the help of 10 fours.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Voges-c925 picked up a scalp each to help their team’s cause.
Now the onus is on Queensland to press the acceleration and try to get a result out of this match by picking up some early wickets on day four. Let us hope that the cricket fans do not witness a dull draw on the last day of the match and Queensland plays
aggressive cricket to pressurize the opposition.
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