South Australia v http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tasmania-c854 – 25th game Sheffield Shield– Ricky Ponting stands tall at end of day two – Match Update
Tasmania is on top against South Australia in the 25th match of the Sheffield Shield being played at the Adelaide Oval. At stumps on day two, the Tigers had a first innings lead of 73 runs with seven wickets in hand.
In reply to South Australia’s 126 runs, the Tasmanian Tigers have piled 199 runs from 52 overs while three of their top batters are back in the hutch. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RT-Ponting-c2377, the veteran cricketer who has recently announced his retirement from One-Day cricketer,
is standing tall and has 91 runs to his name.
No play was possible on Wednesday, February 29, because of bad weather. However, Day two belonged to the bowlers, as thirteen wickets fell on the day, with the Tasmanian bowlers taking the bulk of these wickets.
South Australian vanguards, Michael Klinger and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-Dean-Stray-c93391, provided a steady start. The openers put on 45 runs for the first wicket. Klinger, South Australia’s captain was the first casualty of the day. The batsman got out after scoring 25 runs.
Travis Head came in at number three. He along with Stray put on 38 runs for the second wicket before http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Luke-Butterworth-c1850 showed him the door. Tom Coop was the next man in but he failed to impress and it only took the batsman three deliveries to find his way
back to the dressing room.
South Australia’s batting started to collapse afterwards, and one after the other, the batsmen got out without making significant contributions. Last six wickets of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Australia-c844 only fetched 15 runs as their innings came to an end at 126 runs. Jackson
Bird and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Faulkner-c1643 were the ones who caused the most damage to their batting. The duo shared eight wickets between them.
Tasmania got off to a shaky start and lost the wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Graham-Downton-c44379 Cowan at the score of 25 Tigers suffered another blow when Mark Cosgrove had to retire after getting struck on the hand.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/George-Bailey-c1480, kept their cool and put on 142 runs for the third wicket. South Australian
bowlers had something to cherish when the picked the wicket of Bailey (65) just before the close of play.
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