Queensland were rolled for 68 in their second innings as WA set up a thrilling final day at the WACA Ground<\/p>\n
Western Australia v Queensland | Sheffield Shield | Day Three<\/p>\n
Jhye Richardson has given national selectors a timely reminder of his talent, putting Western Australia on the verge of a famous Sheffield Shield victory.<\/p>\n
Queensland dominated the first two days of the team’s season opener at the WACA Ground in Perth before WA produced a stunning fightback on Saturday.<\/p>\n
After Richardson (5-19) ran riot to bowl Queensland out for 68, WA were just 67 runs away from chasing down the 201-run victory target at stumps on day three.<\/p>\n
Every wicket of WA’s second innings demolition of Queensland<\/p>\n
Richardson demanded the attention of Test selectors as Queensland collapsed to 5-13.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old has battled countless injuries in a stop-start international career, playing four Tests since debuting in 2019.<\/p>\n
Richardson takes timely five to rout Bulls in Shield opener<\/p>\n
But a recall may be on the cards if he is fit and firing during a busy 12-month period in which Australia will play at least 20 Tests, with chief selector George Bailey having previously admitted the nation’s depth will be tested across all formats.<\/p>\n
The WA speedster hasn’t given up hope of donning his baggy green again after getting his body right.<\/p>\n
“Obviously I’ve had a small taste of it (Test cricket) and desperately want to get back there,” Richardson said.<\/p>\n
“It’s just nice to be out there playing cricket and bowling a lot of overs.<\/p>\n
“I had 30-odd overs in India (for Australia A), and then to back it up with another 29 or 30 here, I think it puts me in good stead for the rest of the season.”<\/p>\n
The odds looked stacked against WA at 5-83 after losing Cameron Bancroft (9), Hilton Cartwright (0), Joel Curtis (4), Sam Whiteman (40) and Corey Rocchiccioli (6).<\/p>\n
But allrounder Aaron Hardie (48 not out) and paceman Joel Paris (19no) combined for a 51-run partnership to give WA the edge at 5-134 when poor light stopped play.<\/p>\n
Fanning injures hamstring chasing ball to the boundary<\/p>\n
Uncertainty remains over whether Sam Fanning can bat if called upon on Sunday, after the left-handed opener hobbled off with an apparent hamstring injury.<\/p>\n
He added to WA’s casualty ward after illness ripped through their camp, leading to the substitution of debutant Tom Murray on day two and Jayden Goodwin’s late omission before the toss.<\/p>\n
Bartlett bags five to lead Bulls charge<\/p>\n
Left-armer Paris (3-21) struck twice in the first over of Queensland’s second innings to remove openers Hugh Weibgen and Angus Lovell as he combined with Richardson to seize momentum.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Test hopeful Xavier Bartlett (5-48) cleaned up the tail to skittle WA for 175 in their first innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland were rolled for 68 in their second innings as WA set up a thrilling final day at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-923399","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\/923399","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=923399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}