Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nBatting at number seven, the New South Wales gloveman smashed 18 fours and four sixes in his blistering knock, combining with South Australian all-rounder Liam Scott (81) for an 81-run stand before putting on a rapid partnership of 78 with Xavier Bartlett (39 not out off 24 balls).<\/p>\n
Australia A\u2019s scoring rate was incredibly impressive, accumulating their runs at 5.42 an over across their 98 over innings with Victoria\u2019s Campbell Kellaway (88) and Western Australia\u2019s Cooper Connolly (70) also scoring half centuries.<\/p>\n
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Konstas scores century on India A tour | 04:26<\/p>\n
Philippe, who has played three ODIs and 12 T20Is, has Alex Carey and Josh Inglis ahead of him in the pecking order, but despite not having representing the national side since 2023, the 28-year-old is putting his best foot forward to earn a baggy green if an opportunity did arise.<\/p>\n
Philippe is in a rich rein of form for Australia A, having scored 85 against Sri Lanka A in Darwin in July, and 120 not out against the England Lions in January.<\/p>\n
Inglis\u2019 status as the West Australian No.1 gloveman prompted Philippe\u2019s move to New South Wales before last summer, but he may be following in Inglis\u2019 footsteps by putting his name forward as one of the nation\u2019s top players of spin.<\/p>\n
Inglis earned a Test call-up as a batter in Sri Lanka earlier this year, and repaid the selectors\u2019 faith with a debut century.<\/p>\n
Philippe may be eyeing a similar path to the baggy green, as his aggressive stroke play against spin may be a ticket to future subcontinent tours.<\/p>\n
Josh Philippe celebrates his hundred for Australia A.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
\u201cAt my best, (attacking the spinners) is how I play them naturally,\u201d Philippe said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI like to try to take the game on and look to put pressure back on them straight away.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a pretty good wicket and \u2018Scotty\u2019 batted beautifully and then \u2018X\u2019 (Bartlett) came in and we had a nice little partnership going at the end when we we\u2019re told we\u2019d probably declaring soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s still a pretty good wicket. There\u2019s some signs of a bit of spin from us today \u2013 hopefully as the game gets on it continues to deteriorate, and our spinners can take charge and get some poles.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rain brought the day\u2019s play to an early close with Scott picking up the sole scalp, bowling Abhimanyu Easwaran for 44.<\/p>\n
Narayan Jagadeesan (50*) and Test batter Sai Sudharsan (20*) made it to the close unbeaten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s wicket keeper batter stocks are in exquisite health as Josh Philippe scored an unbeaten century on day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18761,1724,64,63,689,101233,60158,101243,1950,101242,1208,2057,101240,101236,1209,89816,101238,673,44,3583,677,101241,101237,17069,101245,101235,12540,1210,101239,101234,3439,101244],"class_list":["post-150790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-alex-carey","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-test-side","tag-baggy-green","tag-bowling-attack","tag-cricket-news","tag-debut-century","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-exquisite-health","tag-hits-ton","tag-india","tag-josh-philippe","tag-keeper-batter-stocks","tag-new-south-wales","tag-news","tag-northern-europe","tag-oceania","tag-opening-day-century","tag-rapid-ton-sets","tag-sam-konstas","tag-scores-century","tag-scoring-rate","tag-southern-asia","tag-sri-lanka","tag-subcontinent-tours","tag-unbeaten-century","tag-western-australia","tag-wicket-keeper-batter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150790","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=150790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}