Bullish Luke sets the stage at WACA
LUKE Pomersbach put his former state to the sword yesterday, hitting an unbeaten century to give Queensland first-innings points in their Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia at the WACAGround.
Pomersbach is playing his first match of the season for Queensland and has scored his first Shield century for the Bulls to be 137 not out at stumps.
The Warriors fought to make 254 in their first innings after crumbling to 5-47 on the opening day thanks to 96 from Mitch Marsh and 61 from Sam Whiteman in a sixth-wicket partnership of 151, but the Bulls’ batsmen looked untroubled in almost 75 overs.
WA were always up against it when deciding to bat first despite rain delaying play by three hours on Friday and constant interruptions over the next day-and-a-half.
And with the weather clearing, Queensland have the best batting conditions of the match at their disposal.
At stumps on day two, Queensland were 3-255 with Pomersbach to resume with nightwatchman Nathan Hauritz, who was yet to score.
Day two began with WA 5-156, with Marsh and Whiteman continuing to fight hard despite two rain delays.
Whiteman ended up falling for 61 and then Marsh on 96, but the pair still did well to save WA from a horror firstinnings score.
Luke Feldman was the star with the ball for Queensland, taking 4-58 while Ben Cutting and Michael Neser took two wickets each.
Queensland’s batsmen looked at ease from the outset, even though Nathan Reardon fell for 21 to a catch from Marsh off Michael Hogan.
Reardon had earlier been dropped on 19 by Adam Voges off Nathan Coulter-Nile, and then Voges also put down Usman Khawaja in the only chance provided in a 142run second-wicket partnership between him and Pomersbach.