Patterson, watched by Australia’s chairman of selectors George Bailey, struck 110 from 125 balls in the Blues’ 224 all out on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Tasmania, with another Ashes hopeful Jake Weatherald making 28, were reeling at 8-124 in the opening game of the Dean Jones Trophy at Cricket Central in Sydney.<\/p>\n
But Matt Kuhnemann (56no from 71 balls) and Brad Hope (49no from 91) produced a stunning unbroken 101-run stand for the ninth wicket to win with four balls to spare.<\/p>\n
Patterson played two Tests for Australia in 2019 and boasts an average of 144 – he made 30 and 114no in his two knocks against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
The lefthander was discarded when Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft had served their ball-tampering suspensions.<\/p>\n
But Patterson returned to Test discussions with prolific run-scoring in the Sheffield Shield last season, compiling 743 runs at 57.15.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the 32-year-old dominated the Blues’ innings – after his century the next-best was captain Moises Henriques whose 41 from 51 balls featured two sixes.<\/p>\n
Tanveer Sangha (26 from 35) was the only other NSW batsman to reach double-figures.<\/p>\n
Patterson reached his second career one-day century from 113 deliveries and the Blues were bowled out in 49.4 overs.<\/p>\n
Test allrounder Beau Webster took 3-41, white-ball specialist Nathan Ellis (3-37) and spinner Nikhil Chaudary (2-39) also enjoyed multiple success.<\/p>\n
Tasmania’s run chase faltered early with Mitch Owen out for nine and Webster bowled for a golden duck – both dismissed by debutant paceman Ryan Hadley (2-44) in the second over.<\/p>\n
Blues veteran Sean Abbott (2-48) then snared two quick wickets to leave the Tasmanians 4-42 after seven overs.<\/p>\n
Weatherald, who was recently put on the Test radar by selection chief Bailey, put on 54 runs with veteran Matthew Wade.<\/p>\n
But Weatherald’s 51-ball innings ended when he smacked a rank short ball from tweaker Ollie Davies (1-11) straight to Hadley on the deep midwicket boundary.<\/p>\n
Tasmania’s hopes appeared over when Wade (40 from 41 balls) was caught and bowled by Sangha (2-34), with Ellis (one) was soon dismissed to leave the visitors 8-124 in the 26th over.<\/p>\n
But Kuhnemann and Hope produced their defining partnership, with the former edging through a vacant slips area for the winning boundary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patterson, watched by Australia’s chairman of selectors George Bailey, struck 110 from 125 balls in the Blues’ 224…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-147009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}