Victoria 100 for two path Western Australia 167 (Murphy 4-37) by 67 runs
Notably watchful early, Harris’ solely two scoring pictures in his first 26 balls had been good drives to the mid-off and mid-on boundaries. He then hit three successive fours from Brody Sofa’s first over, with a late reduce, uppercut and backfoot drive all via the offside.
However whereas Harris at the least received a begin on Friday at his favoured Junction Oval in Melbourne, there was little pleasure for Bancroft. He received off the mark by punching a ball to backward-point boundary, and in addition produced a beautiful on-drive off Sam Elliott.
It comes after he was the main run-scorer within the Sheffield Defend over the previous two summers, earlier than his kind abandoned him on the exact flawed second.
Murphy’s 4 for 27 on his twenty fourth birthday got here on the proper time forward of this summer time’s tour of Sri Lanka. He was the popular choice as Australia’s second spinner in final yr’s Ashes, however a fit-again Nathan Lyon has not required help alongside him since then.
West Australian Corey Rocchiccioli has since been the main spinner within the Defend final summer time, earlier than taking 4 wickets within the second innings for Australia A in opposition to India A final week. However within the third-last spherical earlier than choice for the Sri Lanka Take a look at tour, Murphy was capable of bag his finest figures of the summer time.
He had opener Sam Fanning caught behind sweeping a ball down leg, earlier than being miserly with the ball for almost all of his spell. The Victorian then ran via the tail and eradicating Joel Paris, Cameron Gannon and Brody Sofa.
Rocchiccioli was capable of get one wicket for Western Australia earlier than stumps, having Campbell Kellaway caught at cowl for 26 when he was crushed in flight.
