Sheffield Shield 2024/25, VIC vs TAS 2nd Match Report, October 08 – 11, 2024

Victoria 428 on 9 dec & 120 on 2 dec (Harris 52, Chandrasinghe 44, K. Elliott 1-19) played with Tasmania 527 on dec 9 (Webster 113, Hope 111, Silk 84, Perry 3-79)

Harris made 52 off 70 balls in the second innings, after scoring 143 in the first innings, as Victoria reached 120 with 2 overs to spare from 52 overs in their innings. second on day four after Tasmania declared an overnight lead of 99 runs. But given that there was little life there, there was no hope of Tasmania taking 10 wickets with time to chase and the captains agreed to end the game before tea on the final day.

Harris played with the same smoothness as his first innings, hitting eight boundaries in his 52 before hitting a full ball from Kieran Elliot that would have cost him a chance at a double hundred in the match.

Ash Chandrasinghe was challenged by the left-arm orthodox of Matt Kuhnemann, who tried to get something out of the footmarks off the left-hand stump. Chandrasinghe made 44 off 128 before Kuhnemann finally found one to bite in the dust to send him to the wicket.

Campbell Kellaway and Peter Handscomb blunted the ball afterwards to prevent any chance of relegation. Jordan Silk even attempted his over before play was called off.

“He asked me if I wanted to hit sixes and bowl for the team in the Test team,” joked Harris. “He was just talking about Aussie A stuff. I think that will come out in the next few days.”

Australia A play two four-day matches against India A in Mackay and Melbourne before the summer Test. Cameron Green’s absence from the Test XI opens up an opportunity for Harris to win a place in the team by playing, especially if Steven Smith returns to No.4 as expected.

“It probably wouldn’t hurt if you ran on it,” Harris said. “I’ve been in that situation a couple of times where I’ve played those games. It’s not like I’ll be playing for Australia A for the first time before a Test series. Obviously there’s always attention. In those games, I won’t try to put as much pressure on myself as I have before.

No offense to the keeper at Junction Oval when the weather is favorable, but Rogers didn’t get the result.

“That’s not good for cricket or anyone involved,” Rogers said. “We have a bit of a history here at the start of the season of having wickets to try different things, but we don’t seem to get anything out of it. So it’s worrying.”

Vaughan did not have an answer on how to avoid these early season results, especially in the two southern states of Victoria and Tasmania.

“I’ll feel for the mates about that, because it’s hard at this time of year to get wickets for good results,” Vaughan said.