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\n Victoria Men
\n VIC<\/p>\n
Three late wickets to Gabe Bell, and one from Billy Stanlake on the day’s final ball, swung the momentum Tasmania’s way<\/p>\n
Western Australia v Tasmania | Sheffield Shield | Day 1<\/p>\n
A fighting Jordan Silk half-century rescued Tasmania before Western Australia’s top order crashed on day one of their Sheffield Shield clash.<\/p>\n
Silk’s 55 from 142 balls underpinned Tasmania’s first innings of 239 all out on Thursday’s opening day at the WACA Ground.<\/p>\n
In reply, WA stumbled to 5-64 at stumps after some excellent fast bowling from the visitors which included Billy Stanlake bowling Teague Wyllie with the final ball of the day.<\/p>\n
WA lost opener Sam Whiteman for a golden duck on the first ball of their innings before Tasmanian quick Gabe Bell (3-21) took the next three wickets.<\/p>\n
In Tasmania’s innings, Silk’s knock helped resist a WA bowling attack led by paceman Cameron Gannon, who claimed 4-49.<\/p>\n
Gannon’s haul justified WA’s decision to bowl first – all coming among the initial six wickets to fall, while Brody Crouch captured 3-67.<\/p>\n
Shield leader Gannon adds four Tassie scalps to his season tally<\/p>\n
Gannon’s victims included Test opener Jake Weatherald, who gave the visitors a flying start with an aggressive 44 from 58 deliveries.<\/p>\n
Weatherald, who smacked two sixes and three fours, and his opening partner Caleb Jewell (22) put on a promising 60-run stand.<\/p>\n
But their partnership ended in the 16th over when Jewell nicked a fullish Gannon delivery to wicketkeeper Joel Curtis.<\/p>\n
Weatherald departed four overs later when he attempted to pull a short ball but got a top edge which flew high before being caught by Jhye Richardson at gully.<\/p>\n
Tim Ward (12) was Gannon’s third victim, caught and bowled, and Test allrounder Beau Webster looked in good touch, striking three fours in making 24 from 30 balls in a 42-run stand with Silk.<\/p>\n
But Webster launched at a big off-drive from Crouch and edged to ‘keeper Curtis.<\/p>\n
Just three balls later, Crouch stuck again with an off-cutter that Nikhil Chaudhary inexplicably left – and watched the ball crash into his stumps.<\/p>\n
Bad leave! Horror day for batting judgement as four bowled leaving<\/p>\n
Chaudhary’s duck left the Tasmanians wobbling at 5-128 but Silk and Jake Doran steadied with a 56-run parternship before Gannon returned to snare his fourth wicket.<\/p>\n
Gannon produced a delivery that seamed into Silk, who feathered an edge to Curtis for the gloveman’s third catch.<\/p>\n
Doran (33) and Raf MacMillan (18) battled against some probing bowling from the hosts, with fringe Test paceman Richardson’s initial 13 overs costing only 15 runs.<\/p>\n
Richardson finished with 1-29 from 16 and spinner Corey Rocchiccioli took 2-51 from 17 overs.<\/p>\n
Sheffield Shield 2025-26 standings<\/p>\n
Team<\/p>\n
\n Matches played\n <\/p>\n
M<\/p>\n
\n Wins\n <\/p>\n
W<\/p>\n
\n Losses\n <\/p>\n
L<\/p>\n
\n Drawn\n <\/p>\n
D<\/p>\n
\n No results\n <\/p>\n
N\/R<\/p>\n
\n Deductions\n <\/p>\n
Ded.<\/p>\n
\n Batting Bonus\n <\/p>\n
Bat<\/p>\n
\n Bowling Bonus\n <\/p>\n
Bowl<\/p>\n
\n Total points\n <\/p>\n
PTS<\/p>\n
1
\n
\n Victoria Men
\n VIC<\/p>\n
6
\n 5
\n 1
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 5.87
\n 5.3
\n 41.17<\/p>\n
2
\n
\n Queensland Bulls
\n QLD<\/p>\n
6
\n 2
\n 2
\n 2
\n 0
\n 0
\n 8.18
\n 4.2
\n 26.38<\/p>\n
3
\n
\n South Australia Men
\n SA<\/p>\n
6
\n 2
\n 2
\n 2
\n 0
\n 0
\n 4.69
\n 5.6
\n 24.29<\/p>\n
4
\n
\n NSW Men
\n NSW<\/p>\n
6
\n 2
\n 3
\n 1
\n 0
\n 0
\n 4.65
\n 4.9
\n 22.55<\/p>\n
5
\n
\n Tasmanian Tigers Men
\n TAS<\/p>\n
6
\n 2
\n 3
\n 1
\n 0
\n 2
\n 3.34
\n 5
\n 19.34<\/p>\n
6
\n
\n Western Australia Men
\n WA<\/p>\n
6
\n 1
\n 3
\n 2
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1.61
\n 5.5
\n 15.11<\/p>\n
Legend<\/p>\n
M: Matches played<\/p>\n
W: Wins<\/p>\n
L: Losses<\/p>\n
D: Drawn<\/p>\n
N\/R: No results<\/p>\n
Ded.: Deductions<\/p>\n
Bat: Batting Bonus<\/p>\n
Bowl: Bowling Bonus<\/p>\n
PTS: Total points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three late wickets to Gabe Bell, and one from Billy Stanlake on the day’s final ball, swung the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-459943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459943","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=459943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}