New South Wales vs Tasmania, Sydney

Mitchell Owen’s 70* in an unbroken 96-run stand with wicket-keeper Jake Doran (42*) resurrected Tasmania’s batting innings on Day 2 against hosts New South Wales. Having restricted the home team to 224, Tasmania were staring down the barrel themselves at 70/6 as Jackson Bird (3-46) and Jack Nisbet (2-49) ripped through the batting order. The seventh-wicket pair, however, took them to safety, ending the day on 166/6 and reducing their deficit to 58. Earlier in the day, Lawrence Neil-Smith added a couple more scalps to his Day 1 fifer to finish with figures of 7-58 while Oliver Davies stayed unbeaten on 81 in NSW’s first innings.

Brief scores: Tasmania 166/6 (Mitchell Owen 70*, Jake Doran 42*; Jackson Bird 3-46) trail New South Wales 224 (Oliver Daviest 81* Lawrence Neil-Smith 7-58) by 58 runs

South Australia vs Victoria, Adelaide

Fergus O Neill’s brilliant 5-28, aided by Peter Siddle’s equally impressive 3-53, ensured a slender 26-run lead for Victoria over hosts South Australia despite a counterattacking 101 from Jake Fraser-McGurk. The pacers ran through the South Australia top and middle-order, reducing them to 16/4 first which soon became 60 for 5. Fraser-McGurk put them back to track with a counterattack, hitting 10 fours and a couple of sixes in his 106-ball 101, with the support of Liam Scott and Ben Manenti, who both hit contrasting fifties to take SA to 252 in their first innings. To their lead Victoria added 12 more by stumps but also lost Marcus Harris cheaply. They lead by 38 at the end of Day 2, nine wickets in hand.

Brief scores: Victoria 278 (Sam Harper 151, Campbell Kellaway 47; Wes Agar 5-45, Brendan Doggett 4-73) & 12/1 (Wes Agar 1-3) lead South Australia 252 (Jake Fraser-McGurk 101, Ben Maneti 51, Liam Scott 50; Fergus O Neill 5-28, Peter Siddle 3-53) by 38 runs

Queensland vs Western Australia, Brisbane

Usman Khawaja hit a patient 102 not out as Queensland declared their first innings on 274/8 on Day 2, having lost more than two sessions on the opening day of their Shield fixture against Western Australia. Liam Haskett picked two early wickets to trigger a mini collapse as Queensland slipped from a comfortable 61/0 overnight to 65/3 but a 1160run partnership between Khwaja and Jack Clayton (53) resurrected the innings. Khawaja reached his 100 late on Day 2, taking his team past the 250 mark with that boundary short. Jhye Richardson broke that successful stand, and picked tow more in quick succession before Queensland declared. However, only 11 balls into Western Australia’s innings, bad light stopped play and eventually forced early stumps.

Brief scores: Western Australia 2/0, trail Queensland 274/8 decl (Usman Khawaja 102*, Jack Clayton 53; Jhye Richardson 4-36, Liam Haskett 3-90) by 272 runs