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Sheffield Defend 2024/25, QLD vs VIC fifteenth Match Match Report, November 24 – 27, 2024

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Queensland 297 and 58 for 3 want 271 extra runs to beat Victoria 186 and 439 (Kellaway 120, Rogers 69, Harris 62, Quick 59, Guthrie 4-96)

Campbell Kellaway scored his maiden Sheffield Defend century to place Victoria within the field seat of their pink-ball conflict with Queensland on the Gabba.

Queensland went to stumps on day three struggling at 58 for 3 chasing 329 for victory.  Kellaway made a seven-ball duck in Victoria’s sub-par first-innings complete of 186. However the 22-year-old was in a category of his personal in Victoria’s second innings, combining with Marcus Harris for a 154-run opening stand to catapult the guests again into the competition.

Tom Rogers, Matt Quick and Peter Handscomb additionally chipped in with useful knocks to assist raise Victoria to an imposing 439.

In reply, Queensland misplaced Matt Renshaw for a duck to 40-year-old veteran Peter Siddle within the first over of their run chase they usually had been 32 for two when Bryce Avenue fell for 7.

Angus Lovell put up some resistance, however he was despatched packing following a surprising one-handed catch by Quick whereas he was working with the flight of the ball from slip to haul in a top-edged pull.

Victoria began day three at 122 with out loss of their second innings Harris was caught at slip off the bowling of Lovell, however Kellaway went on with the job to put up his maiden Defend century.

Kellaway’s 175-ball knock, which featured 14 boundaries, was lastly dropped at an finish when he was bowled by Avenue within the last over earlier than the dinner break.

Queensland used eight bowlers of their bid to make inroads into Victoria’s sturdy batting line-up, however breakthroughs had been few and much between


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