{"id":494858,"date":"2026-02-21T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494858\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:57:09","slug":"curtis-stars-as-wa-beat-victoria-despite-kellaway-ton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494858\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis stars as WA beat Victoria despite Kellaway ton"},"content":{"rendered":"

A matchwinning knock from Joel Curtis has overshadowed Campbell Kellaway’s century as Western Australia claimed an eight-wicket victory over Victoria in the One-Day Cup.<\/p>\n

After scoring 75 in his side’s thrilling one-wicket win against Tasmania on February 10, Curtis continued his fine form to help the Western Australians finish their season on a high.<\/p>\n

His 91 off 83 deliveries set up WA for a comfortable chase of Victoria’s 231-run target at the WACA on Saturday.<\/p>\n

But the 26-year-old was cruelly denied a second century in the competition as his extra-cover strike nestled into a diving Matt Short’s hands with his side needing just 37 more to win.<\/p>\n

Curtis had allies in Cameron Bancroft (70 off 107) as they established a 134-run second-wicket partnership, and opener Sam Fanning, who had pushed the tempo early with a run-a-ball 31.<\/p>\n

Bancroft whacked the winning runs in the 40th over as Western Australia finished on 2-233.<\/p>\n

\"Kellaway\"<\/p>\n

Campbell Kellaway hammered a hundred – but in a losing cause for Victoria. (Matt Turner\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

In a positive for the visitors, Kellaway fired a match-high 105 from 117 balls to save them from a humiliating low score after they were sent in to bat.<\/p>\n

It took a full toss from seamer Matthew Kelly to dismiss the 23-year-old after his shot to long-on found the safe hands of Ashton Turner in the 49th over.<\/p>\n

Opener Short was the next highest scorer for the Victorians with 35 off 43 balls as the visitors struggled to build any serious momentum.<\/p>\n

WA’s Bryce Jackson continued his red-hot bowling form, grabbing 4-40 after collecting four wickets in his previous One-Day Cup outing against Tasmania.<\/p>\n

18-year-old Will Malajczuk also snared 2-48, including the key scalp of Peter Handscomb for a duck.<\/p>\n

Victoria finished their season at the bottom of the ladder after making the final last campaign, while Western Australia ended in fourth spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A matchwinning knock from Joel Curtis has overshadowed Campbell Kellaway’s century as Western Australia claimed an eight-wicket victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,163573,89819,249496,249497,44,660,3439,249498],"class_list":{"0":"post-494858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cameron-bancroft","11":"tag-campbell-kellaway","12":"tag-joel-curtis","13":"tag-matt-short","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-victoria","16":"tag-western-australia","17":"tag-western-australians"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494858","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=494858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}