Stobo’s all-round heroics put Western Australia in a house Sheffield Shield ultimate

Western Australia 336 & 82 for 1 (Bancroft 30*, Wyllie 20*) beat Tasmania 179 & 236 (Jewell 121, Stobo 4-57) by 9 wickets

Having bowled out Tasmania for 236 of their second innings, WA simply overhauled the paltry goal of 80 late on day three. Sam Whiteman, caught behind off seamer Lawrence Neil-Smith for 31, was the one wicket to fall.

Player-of-the-match Stobo, a former New South Wales participant, continued to justify his choice in WA’s robust assault in his first season as a contracted participant with them. He helped thwart Tasmania’s makes an attempt at a comeback with the guests shedding their final eight wickets for 81 runs.

A top-order batter for his membership in Perth in grade cricket, Stobo had helped take the sport away from Tasmania late on day two with a career-best 38 at No.11. He shared a last-wicket partnership of 113 with skipper Mitchell Marsh, who smashed 108 in his first Shield match in virtually two years.

“We knew [that by] putting the ball in the right spots, you’re going to get something out of it [the surface],” stated Stobo, who took seven wickets for the match. “It was about patience and then riding momentum when we took wickets.”

“It’s probably been the story of our season…we get ourselves into positions where we can win and then something happens. That was pretty disappointing,” Jewell stated.

Resuming at 1-27, nonetheless 130 runs in arrears, Tasmania have been confronted with defying WA’s assault on a green-tinged floor. Their possibilities did not bode effectively with Tasmania unable to muster a complete of 200 runs in any of their previous three innings in opposition to WA.

The pitch seemed to be flattening out in sunny circumstances and the batters cashed in as they notched fashionable half-centuries. But a formidable Stobo ended the 124-run partnership with a good-length supply to have Wright caught behind for 59.

Jewell was unperturbed as he moved to 97 after hooking seamer Aaron Hardie for six. In the following over, Jewell introduced up his fourth century in his twenty eighth first-class match with a boundary.

Hardie, who has a knack for turning momentum, claimed the wickets of skipper Jordan Silk and former Test captain Tim Paine in the identical over. The house facet might see the end line when Beau Webster was caught behind off left-arm fast Joel Paris for a duck. Tasmania had misplaced 4 for 30 with a lead of simply 28 runs as their slim hopes of avoiding defeat rested on Jewell.

But Jewell fell shortly after tea when he inside-edged onto his stumps off the toiling Stobo with Tasmania’s lead at 48.

The finish was inevitable for Tasmania, whose disappointing home season throughout codecs finishes at house in opposition to Queensland in a Shield match beginning on March 14.