Sheffield Shield: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-South-Wales-c823 script a 133 run win against Queensland
Not even Wade Townsend’s sparkling innings of 80 runs could help avoid the 133 run defeat of Queensland against New South Wales at the Olympic Park Oval in Sydney, as he lacked contribution from the rest of the Bulls line-up.
After resuming the Day four at 71 for 0, the Bulls were required to bat out the last day to avoid their second defeat in the season’s Sheffield Shield. The first 44 overs of the day saw Queensland losing just three wickets and at
206 for 3 the visitors were in with a chance of managing a draw, before Doug Bollinger and Nathan Hauritz scythed through their line up to finish with three wickets apiece.
The opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Robinson-c86348
shared a 30-run stand with the fluent opener Townsend before he was bowled by Doug Bollinger to leave the side 105 for 2 on the board.
The 29-year-old Bollinger, who was dropped from Australia's Ashes Test squad after the lost Adelaide Test, sparked the crumple of the visitors with the wicket of the fluent opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wade-Townsend-c2774, who had played a painstaking innings
of 80 runs from 192 balls. The Bulls then went on losing wickets at regular intervals as their next four wickets fell for just 33 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Craig-Philipson-c1290, who had struck three boundaries in his 58-ball 23, soon followed Townsend after being trapped leg before by the off-spinner Nathan Hauritz; another victim of the Australian National Selection Panel as he is also being
continuously overlooked for the ongoing Ashes series. Just three overs later, a double strike from the left-arm spinner Steve O'Keefe left the visitors reeling at 7 for 239. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chris-Simpson-c1251 was caught behind off O'Keefe on the first ball of the 81st
over while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Cameron-Boyce-c1213 was bowled on the third delivery of the same over.
The final session of the day saw a game of just 12.1 overs as the whole team was rolled over for 280 runs. Nine of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Queensland-c834 batsmen failed to get past 25 runs.
The fifth victory in the seven Sheffield Shield games has extended the lead of the Blues at the top of the table to 10 points as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tasmania-c854 Tigers stand at the No. 2 spot with 20 points.
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