Blues’ new opener hit 42 boundaries across Cricket Central to dismantle Tasmania’s attack<\/p>\n
New South Wales v Tasmania | Sheffield Shield | Day Two<\/p>\n
An Ollie Davies double-century has powered NSW to a commanding position in their Sheffield Shield season-opener against Tasmania.<\/p>\n
The make-shift opener blasted a swashbuckling 253 from 225 balls on Friday as NSW built an imposing 196-run lead at stumps on day two.<\/p>\n
Davies was dropped from the NSW Shield side before Christmas last season after averaging just 13.66 across five matches.<\/p>\n
With Australia touring South Africa and Australia A in India, NSW coach Brad Haddin recalled the 25-year-old and promoted him up the order.<\/p>\n
It proved a masterstroke as Davies chalked up NSW’s first Sheffield Shield double-century for nine seasons.<\/p>\n
No NSW batter has scored 200 runs in a day in a first-class match since Simon Katich in 2007-08.<\/p>\n
Every boundary of dynamo Davies’ 253<\/p>\n
Davies was unperturbed by a green-top pitch at Sydney’s Cricket Central, flaying so many boundaries that it appeared to induce hand cramp.<\/p>\n
He was ultimately caught slashing out to the deep after passing 250 and racking up 38 fours and four sixes.<\/p>\n
Davies was well supported by Kurtis Patterson (54) and Jack Edwards (109 not out), after fellow opener Riley Kingsell (1) nicked off early on day two.<\/p>\n
Former NSW skipper Edwards takes down Tassie<\/p>\n
Will Salzmann (8), Ryan Hicks (0) and Jake Scott (7) fell in the final 20 minutes of play to left-arm Tasmanian debutant Marcus Bean (4-89), with NSW finishing the day at 6-441.<\/p>\n
Earlier, NSW allrounder Scott took the last wicket in the first four minutes of day two to bowl Tasmania out for 245 and collect a maiden five-wicket haul at first-class level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blues’ new opener hit 42 boundaries across Cricket Central to dismantle Tasmania’s attack New South Wales v Tasmania…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-922436","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\/922436","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=922436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}