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Hundreds for Andrew Hall and Andre Seymore for Easterns and a ninety-eight for Western Province’s Neil Johnson highlighted the start of round three of the Standard Bank Cup competition with KwaZulu-Natal, Western Province and Easterns recording wins.Willowmoore Park in Benoni saw Easterns winning the toss and batting first against Griqualand West.Andre Seymore and Andrew Hall matched each other ball for ball with a 231 run opening partnership with Seymore going to his hundred first and then getting bowled by Johann Louw on the magical three figure mark. The hundred came up in 126 balls and included 12 sparkling boundaries once more piercing the point area with some powerful cuts.Hall showed what good form he is in at the moment, going to his 100 in 124 balls with 11 boundaries. Once the hundred came up he unleashed some classic shots scoring a further 22 runs from his last 10 balls to end undefeated on 122. He was awarded man-of-the-match.Albie Morkel sent in at number three lost his wicket to Louw on the last ball of the innings after smashing 22 from 15 balls, which included one four and a six, leaving Easterns in a strong position at 266/2.Apart from the two wickets from Louw (2/44 in six overs) the only other bowlers who managed to put some brakes on the scoring rate were Zahir Abrahim (0/42) and Martin Gidley (0/39).Griqualand West did make use of a good pitch losing Loots Bosman (2) to Andre Nel and Pieter Koortzen (7) to Hall within the first six overs.A further wicket for Hall, that of Gidley (10), left Griquas on 34 and a required run rate of 6.5 in the final 35 overs.Brett Tucker and Louw restored some hope to the Griqualand West innings putting on a 99 run partnership with Louw the aggressor twice hitting big sixes into the main and players pavilions. His aggression and a growing run rate was his demise playing over a quick yorker from Crookes for 51 coming off 58 balls and including four fours and the two sixes.With the departure of Louw wickets fell all around Tucker. A brief flutter from Abrahim scoring 26 and an undefeated 80 from Tucker saw Griqualand West nose past the bonus point score of 212 to end on 221 all out in the 41st over. A loss by 45 runs.Some light rain and lightning chased the players off the field at the Wanderers where Western Province had won the toss and elected to bat against Gauteng.Having strengthen their side the visitors started off with Neil Johnson, back from his suspension, and Graeme Smith taking 43 runs off the first seven overs before Smith forcing from the front foot, when on 13, scooping a leading edge for Ashfak Abowath to take his first limited overs wicket.This brought HD Ackerman to the crease and aided by some woeful bowling moved the score along to 125/1 in the 24th over when the umpires decided to take the players off the field with some light rain and lightning striking very close to the Wanderers.After a break of 55 minutes the players returned with Johnson continuing to dominate. After 14 boundaries and 120 balls in which he improvised and worked the ball into most of the gaps in the field he a returned a catch to Adam Bacher for the third umpire to give him out caught and bowled on 98 ending a 150 run partnership in 31 overs.Ashwell Prince wasted no time at the crease and had raced to 35 runs off 21 balls while Ackerman kept his end going. With the score on 231 and only ten balls remaining Ackerman played past an Eksteen delivery to be bowled for 66 having been instrumental in getting Province into a strong position.At the end of the innings Western Province had moved to 243/4 with Prince being clean bowled by David Terbrugge for 42 on the second last ball of the innings.David Terbrugge had been his usual miserly self throughout the innings ending with 1/30 in his nine overs, but it was Adam Bacher who impressed with figures of 1/22 in his nine overs. Without these two bowlers Western Province might have cruised past 275.Bacher and Solly Ndima made a brisk start to the Strikers innings putting on 47 before Ndima trying to go over square leg was well taken by Smith for 29.Bacher was next to lose his wicket. Finding it difficult to keep the scoreboard moving he was well held at mid on for 25 off 46 balls and when Warren Dugmore left without scoring, all seemed lost for the hosts.Marthinus Otto was still and the crease, playing some lusty shots he flat batted Renier Munnik over the mid-wicket rope before being bowled by Claude Henderson for 37.Seventeen-year-old debutante Vaughn van Jaarsveld showed a lot of maturity by scoring a classy fluent 57 from 59 balls, including six fours and a six. A bright future is predicted for this standard nine pupil.With the last five wickets going down for 39 runs Western Province ran out winner by 44 runs, but could not gain the bonus point.In Durban, the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins at last hit form bowling North West out for 111 in 42 overs and then reaching the target in 30 overs.A disappointing evening for Pool A log leaders North West. Winning the toss and batting first they never recovered from a poor start after finding themselves 39/4 from 17 overs. Man-of-the-match, Nixon McLean, taking two of the early wickets.Top scores of 19 from ex Natalian Grant Rowley and Alfonso Thomas was never going to be enough to stretch the Dolphins.Shaun Pollock (7-2-10-0), McLean (9-4-15-4), Jon Kent (8-2-27-3) and debutante Yadeen Singh (9-0-32-2) made sure that the Dragons batsmen were always under pressure finding it difficult to get out of the hole dug early in the innings.The Dolphins after losing Ahmed Amla for 21 and Ashraf Mall for two, both to Garth Roe, easily reached the target of 112 in 30 overs with Kent not out 43 and Dale Benkenstein not out 30. The win by eight wickets, and a bonus point, gives KwaZulu-Natal its first points on the log.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today named a provisional list of 20 players who will be considered for the National Academy in Adelaide this winter.Hugh Morris, ECB Performance Director, said, “At this stage of the season wewanted to concentrate our minds on the kind of players who might be invited to the National Academy this winter. Creating such a list allows us to concentrate our resources and to film, study and analyse these players in-depth, which will enable the NA Staff to create individual programmes for them.”This is by no means an exclusive list and if other players perform well in the remainder of the season then they will also be considered for selection. The shortlist contains a number of players from the 2001/2programme. It isconsidered that these players would benefit from a further winter at the Academy.”The ECB National Academy squad will be announced with the England Senior Test Match and One-Day squads for the winter.The National Academy will again be based in Adelaide for 2002-3. Current plans are for the players to spend approximately nine weeks in Adelaide from early October before returning home for three weeks over Christmas. A post Christmas playing programme is currently being finalised.Provisional list of Academy players:Kabir Ali (Worcestershire)Gareth Batty (Worcestershire)Ian Bell (Warwickshire)Ian Blackwell (Somerset)Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire)Matt Bulbeck (Somerset)Paul Franks (Nottinghamshire)Kyle Hogg (Lancashire)Simon Jones (Glamorgan)Ed Joyce (Middlesex)Michael Lumb (Yorkshire)Gordon Muchall (Durham)Monty Panesar (Northamptonshire)Chris Read (Nottinghamshire)Darren Stevens (Leicestershire)James Treadwell (Kent)Chris Tremlett (Hampshire)Jim Troughton (Warwickshire)Mark Wallace (Glamorgan)Matt Whiley (Leicestershire)

It’s a good thing the strong Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar left Trent Bridge in a hurry in a Land Rover shortly before the start of the second day’s play.Akhtar, a former Nottinghamshire Outlaws player and the bowler of the fastest recorded ball in the history of the game, was down at Trent Bridge for a small recording stint with Channel4. After sending down a few characteristic deliveries for the cameras to catch, Akhtar wandered around to the Indian nets and exchanged words with several players.The speedster spent a few minutes talking about the experience just before he left the ground.”India – Pakistan cricket should be on. It is THE series we all look forward to,” he said, referring to a topic that occupies the interest of a majority of fans from the two countries.The way he wandered across to Harbhajan Singh and embraced him left no doubt about the relations between the teams.”There’s no problem between the players of our teams. We get on very well. I met all the Indians today and it was good to catch up with them. There’s a lot we have in common. We watch so many Hindi films in Pakistan — probably more than you even,” said Akhtar with a throaty laugh now laced with an English accent.Having been rested from the Pakistan team that plays a one-day triangular tournament against South Africa and Sri Lanka in Morocco soon, Akhtar made it clear that it was not on account of injury. “I’m not injured at all at the moment. No niggles even. I’m completely fit. Any injuries are a thing of the past.”Like all keen competitors, Akhtar was raring to take on the best in the world.”After the tournament in Morocco we play Australia in Kenya. I’m really looking forward to that. We’ve done well against them in the past and I want to beat them again. That will give me and the Pakistan team a lot of confidence,” he explained.Akhtar has been the centre of media attention since his debut, for a whole host of reasons, but recently hogged the limelight for his 100mph-plus delivery against New Zealand. Although there was controversy about the accuracy of the speed guns that recorded the feat, Akhtar insists it was an important moment.”I always wanted to break the 100mph mark and knew I could do it. I’m glad that I managed it. It’s good to have that behind me,” said Akhtar of the achievement.Speed apart, the paceman suggested that his career had advanced in leaps and bounds.”I’ve grown into a match-winner in recent years. I’ve been taking more and more wickets and winning matches for Pakistan. That is the most important thing. If I keep doing that, I know the speed will come on its own,” he explained.For his counterparts across the border, who all suffer in comparison, Akhtar had nothing but encouraging words.”Zaheer Khan looks sharp. He has good pace and importantly, the right attitude for a fast bowler. Nehra too moves the ball well and is promising. They both have the potential to become world-class bowlers,” he said.Sadly for the touring Indians though, there was hardly any evidence of this from the pair in question. Although Zaheer Khan redeemed himself by bowling well in patches, Nehra proved to be a complete disappointment in the second Test against England. Perhaps things might have been different if India had the services of the experienced Javagal Srinath. In this light Akhtar stressed on the contribution of Wasim Akram to Pakistan cricket.”Wasim bhai is a living legend. I’ve always looked up to him from when I was a kid. From the day I started playing for Pakistan he’s helped me and the other youngsters out tremendously,” he concluded.It might be too late for Srinath and too early to proclaim the arrival of Zaheer Khan and Nehra on the world stage, but the time is just ripe for Akhtar. At the top of his rhythm and ability he’s a devastating match-winner. And yes, we all know what a crowd puller he is.

Shane Warne has pleaded for some recovery time on the beach in Durban after transforming his 100th Test into the most memorable match of his career.Warne figured in each of the four innings in the second Test in Cape Town, winning the player-of-the-match award in Australia’s four-wicket win.Captain Steve Waugh joked that Warne wrote the script for his milestone match after taking 8-231 from 98 overs and scoring 63 and 15 not out, but Waugh agreedAustralia would have been out of business if not for the leg-spinner.Australia and South Africa have just two days to recover from their gripping Cape Town battle before meeting again in the series finale at Kingsmead.”I’ll wake up and it will probably be a dream. I’ll probably get 0-200 in the next Test and come down to earth,” Warne said.”The way I’m feeling at the moment it probably does pip the (first Test in Sri Lanka in 1992) as my favourite.”From my own individual point of view this was probably my favourite Test but I’m very tired and I’ve probably dropped a couple of extra kilos.”But hopefully (coach) John Buchanan and Steve Waugh will give us some time at the beach in the next two days because otherwise I wouldn’t fancy having to bowlfor another day-and-a-half on Friday.”Warne has 37 wickets from eight Tests in a season which included a rough time against New Zealand’s adventurous batsmen.”After the first few Tests against New Zealand, Buck (Buchanan) asked me to talk to the team about how I was going because I was just feeling frustrated,” Warnesaid.”I thought I was bowling well but there were no results.”But it’s impossible to have a good game all the time. You’re going to go through the ups and downs.”It’s how you deal with that, and at times we’ve probably all made a few mistakes along the way.”In my situation there has been a hell of a lot of good times and not too many bad times.”

Somerset Under 11’s got their season off to a flying start when they won the Four Counties Competition against Devon, Gwent and Glamorgan, that took place at Millfield Prep School recently.Somerset won all three of their games, and beat Devon in the crucial deciding game.In their first game Somerset beat Gwent by 25 runs, thanks to Will Robinson(23), Jamie Howson (14), Ross Jenkins (13) and Alex Barrow (10), who all made valuable contributions to the total of 89 for 4 off their allotted overs. Thanks to some tight bowling Gwent were then restricted to 67 for 4.In the second game against Glamorgan, Somerset dominated and scoring 125 for 2 thanks to Ross Jenkins (37 not out) and Jamie Howson (31 not out), and then kept their opponents to just 36 for 7.In the final match against previously unbeaten Devon, Somerset recovered from a shaky start to score 75 for 9, thanks to Ross Jenkins(20) and Max Delamain (10).Alex Thompson and Jack Leach then reduced Devon to 9 for 4, from which they never recovered and were eventually all out of 49,well short of their target.Congratulations to all of the Somerset Under 11 team and also to their manager and coach.

In the latest of a series of features on the domestic season in England, CricInfo’s Paul McGregor gives you a guide to the photographer’s kitbag, and some words of wisdom on what to look out for at the ground, even if play’s been disrupted by the weather.

The cricket photographer can easily be recognised, even when set apart from the unusually long lenses he or she may be carrying around. You can tell from the often-hunched shoulders and bent back, formed after years of humping these lenses and cameras around the cricket grounds of the world.So what goes into the kit bag and why? Essentially the photographer carries the kit to cover every eventuality. The telephoto lens is the trademark, and the diligent photographer will “get this up” on the tripod as soon as possible after the shooting position is selected. This might be the case even if play is not imminent, as our shots on this page show. We’ve captured one of the peculiar rituals of “the summer game” even though there is no play. We have a member of the ground staff at Trent Bridge in Nottingham banging a spike into the pitch. Without a long lens you couldn’t hope to catch such a ritual.

Umpire Palmer and Notts skipper Bicknell are paying particular attention to this attempt to find out how much moisture there is in the wicket. Perhaps a divining rod could be used instead?The long lens will also capture other rituals of the game. Durham’s Jon Lewis is in the field, exchanging team sheets with the umpire and Bicknell, before the toss. Such shots don’t compare with action images, but capture part of the event nonetheless and the photographer should not ignore this.The kitbag will also contain a variety of other lenses, far shorter than the telephoto. There are always things happening on the periphery. Sponsors will appear wanting “just a quick picture” in a corporate box. The club marketing department will ring wanting an image of a local celebrity watching the match. The players might want pictures for their brochures.

So the photographer will take a variety of lenses, 50mm, 17-35mm zoom, and normally something like an 80-200mm zoom to capture the required moment. A flashgun also goes with this. But sometimes events just happen and it would be odd if the photographer did not go equipped to capture the interview carried out by the TV company. Michael Vaughan has a wistful glance back at the camera as the interviewer searches for a penetrating question.So keeping your eyes open around the ground, and being prepared for a variety of eventualities as well as photographing the actual play, are all part of capturing the images of the game. It has even been known for photographers, a notoriously scruffy breed, to turn out looking nearly decent with a jacket and tie, prepared to do a job in the more august pavilions of the game. So in the photographer’s bag there may even be a tie. Whatever next?

A good finish could be in prospect tomorrow for the match between the CFX Academy and Matabeleland. At the close on the third day, the Academy were 189 runs ahead of the visitors with three wickets in hand. Andre Hoffman (70) and Gavin Ewing (four wickets with his off-breaks) were the individualswho will take most personal pleasure from the day’s play.Matabeleland resumed at 323 for eight, 26 runs ahead of the Academy, and overnight batsmen Wisdom Siziba and Colin Williams looked to have positive purpose. A useful stand was developing when a foolish run-out led to the dismissal of Williams for 13. In the next over Siziba’s 400-minute, 330-ball marathon came to an end as he was trapped lbw to Andre Hoffman for 76; Matabeleland totalled 339, a lead of 42. Hoffman, the eighth bowler used and only reluctantly owing to back trouble, took three wickets for 10 runs, and debutant Tom Benade three for 62.Matabeleland soon dismissed Conan Brewer, bowled for 3 by a full-length ball from Townshend. Thereafter Neeten Chouhan and Visi Sibanda made steady progress, although Chouhan was fortunate to survive a low chance at slip as soon as Keith Dabengwa came on to bowl, with the pitch taking spin. He celebrated, uncharacteristically, with two successive fours, and in factplayed with much more freedom than he has previously shown at first-class level during his brief innings of 22, before he hit Ewing low to cover.Andre Hoffman, with the confidence of a first-innings century, on-drove his first ball for four, and immediately carried on from where he left off the previous day. The batsmen settled in confidently for the afternoon session, although Hoffman was dropped at midwicket by Colin Williams, an easy catch to the Matabeleland captain. Williams has done little with the bat in histhree matches, does not bowl and has been fallible in the field; he is in the side only for his captaincy and experience, which are highly rated, but may not be enough to keep him his place.Sibanda (31) was less fortunate; also against Gavin Ewing, he tried to loft the ball wide of mid-on, only for Dabengwa to take a superb leaping catch to his left. Hoffman, in fine form, continued to drive with power, but on the stroke of tea pulled a short ball from Strydom straight to deepishmidwicket, where Williams partly atoned for his earlier lapse by holding the catch; out for 70.After tea Innocent Chinyoka and Glenn Goosen played some extravagant strokes, attacking perhaps not wisely but too well, as Chinyoka (17) was soon bowled swinging at Ewing. Ewing earned himself another wicket when hewon an lbw decision against Piet Rinke (14), playing across the line.This brought the aggressive Glen Barrett to the crease. He began a little uncertainly against the spinners, and it was Goosen who struck first, swinging Ewing over midwicket for six. Then Barrett found his touch,hitting Dabengwa straight for six – has any other batsmen hit at least one six in each of his first four first-class innings?The second new ball quietened him down somewhat, apart from a slash over cover that almost brought a six; at times he looked quite tentative against none too threatening bowling. Finally an uppish defensive stroke enabled Strydom to pick up a low return catch to dismiss him for 17.Goosen, having survived two spells of risky strokeplay, settled down for the close, finishing with 35, partnered by Tom Benade (4), and the total 231 for seven.

As the cricket cliché goes, there’s never a good time to be injured. But some moments are especially unfortunate, as Victoria’s spinner Jon Holland is now discovering, having hurt his shoulder when he was working his way towards the fringes of national selection. His state team-mate John Hastings could tell him all about it.Hastings had just started to establish himself in Australia’s ODI and Twenty20 sides last year when he returned from the tour of Sri Lanka and suffered a serious injury at state training. Diving for a one-handed catch, Hastings felt a stabbing pain and his season was over, a shoulder reconstruction ruling him out of all cricket for nearly a year.Tours of South Africa, West Indies, England and the UAE were out of the question, as was any hope of him being part of Australia’s World T20 squad, and the injury to Hastings, a bowling allrounder, allowed batting allrounder Daniel Christian some breathing space to settle in to the side. Hastings also missed a full Sheffield Shield campaign, having been the competition’s second leading wicket taker two years earlier when he collected 36 victims at 26.13.But finally, Hastings is back, and he is looking on the bright side. The time away from the game gave him plenty of opportunity to work in the gym, and he believes his extra strength work has helped him gain a little bit of pace with his bowling. Whatever the case, he has certainly thrived on his return, having picked up 13 wickets in Victoria’s first two Shield games of this season – his first outings at first-class level in nearly two years.”The timing of it wasn’t great,” Hastings told ESPNcricinfo. “I pulled out of the South African series in 2011. It seems a long time ago now. It wasn’t a great time for me. I probably would have been on that tour and if I’d done well there, who knows, Tests might have been around the corner as well. But to have such a long time out of the game it’s going to take me a long time to gain the selectors’ trust again and get back in that side.”When I wasn’t bowling or batting I spent a lot of time on my fitness, working on my strength and conditioning in the gym with David Bailey, the now Australian strength and conditioning coach. We worked our butts off to try to get me back. I think a yard of pace has probably helped me get a few more wickets than I normally would have in four-day cricket, and a little more durability as well, so I can continually back up my spells.”So far this season, the results have been coming. Only James Pattinson, who demolished Queensland with 6 for 32 in the second innings in Brisbane, has more Shield wickets than Hastings after the first two rounds. In a Victoria attack featuring four fast and medium bowlers who have worn the baggy green – Pattinson, Peter Siddle, Clint McKay and Andrew McDonald – that’s no mean feat.”I come on and I’m not as fast as the other guys, I think the batsmen think they can get after me and they just nick one to the keeper or something,” Hastings said. “For me to bowl at the other end to James Pattinson is just fantastic. He creates all the pressure. That spell at the Gabba was absolutely world-class, on a pretty flat third-day Gabba wicket, he extracted bounce and a bit of movement.”Hastings, 26, can also get plenty of bounce from his 195-centimetre frame. He will enjoy the challenge of bowling to the Tasmanians at the MCG this week. Last time he played a first-class match at home it was against the touring England team during Australia’s disastrous 2010-11 Ashes. Twenty-two months is a long time to wait.”Everything is going really well at the moment,” Hastings said. “It’s probably the best my body has felt for four or five years. Looking back I think I was lucky to have that 18 months to get my body right and get it where I wanted to be. It’s great to pull up well from games and hopefully that can continue.”

England A saw their Busta International Shield title hopes slideaway into the Georgetown culverts today after Ramnaresh Sarwanput paid to their semi-final plans to win first innings pointsagainst Guyana.The 20 year-old Test batsman made 110 from 274 balls in aninnings spanning just over six hours. It was his fifth firstclass century and his first on home soil and while Carl Hooperexhibited power and good judgement for his 91 yesterday, thehugely talented Sarwan showed patience and good timing, steeringhis side past the 293 target set by England A to secure firstinnings points.Now, all Guyana have to do to progress through to the final nextweekend is to draw this match. England A meanwhile have tocomplete an outright win to qualify and after losing both IanWard, John Crawley and Michael Powell in the closing stages, thistask has taken on gargantuan proportions.England A’s batsmen played enterprisingly in the final session,their wickets falling in the chase for quick runs as they soughtto build up a big second innings total and leave themselves withenough time on the final day to bowl Guyana out.The opening stand between Ian Ward and Michael Powell was one ofthe best of the tour so far, as both players took risks to getthe ball away. Ward pulled Mahendra Nagamootoo over mid wicketfor six and Powell attempted his trademark reverse sweeps, two ofwhich spun to the boundary.But with the total on 124, Ward tried the pull shot again, thistime to pace bowler Reon King but Carl Hooper was in line to takean easy catch at mid wicket and the Surrey opener, who hasenjoyed a successful tour with the bat was dispatched having made56.Crawley faced two balls before he became King’s second victim,struck on the pads to receive an immediate verdict from umpireEddie Nicholls and Powell went the same way, in the over beforestumps, having struck a impressive 59, his half century comingfrom 103 balls and three fours.By the close, England A were 165 for three, having scored at morethan four an over in the 39 bowled in the innings and their leadover Guyana had extended to 129 runs.It could have been more had Sarwan not played a faultlessinnings, denying England A any chance of a sniff at his wicket.He struck 12 boundaries, leaving no quarter of the Bourda grounduntouched and received rousing encouragement from a small butboisterous crowd who in between barracking for Sarwan foundenough energy to make Ryan Sidebottom’s life uncomfortable, hisspectacular hair, ambitious footballing displays and aggressionattracting a series of insults from the folk behind long on.There was a delay as a stray dog wandered onto the field andmooched around, untroubled by any official for more than fiveminutes. It even found time to make a deposit, under the nose ofan irritated Ward who gestured to the groundstaff for one of themto come and clear it away, quickly.Clearly he too was getting stick from the crowd since he thensuggested the poop be scooped in their direction, prompting thebiggest reaction of the day.Sarwan’s innings came to a close when he finally holed out toWard at long on off Graeme Swann’s bowling, in a spinners spellthat saw that last three wickets fall for 21, both Swann andChris Schofield earning four wickets a piece.Guyana made 336, a lead of 43 runs but according to England Acoach Peter Moores, a plan of action for the remaining sessionswas formulated and immediately deployed.”We knew we had to get runs quickly and decided we wanted to putat least 160 on the board by the close of play. Our openersplayed extremely well and we were happy that we made quickprogress” he said.”It would have been nice to have got Sarwan out sooner but heplayed extremely well and although we bowled well, he didn’toffer up too many opportunities.”Tomorrow we will aim to get around 250 but the key thing isleaving ourselves with around 60 overs to bowl them out and thenI think we are still in with a very good chance of winning.”Our policy is all or nothing. We are definitely prepared tosacrifice a defeat in the pursuit of victory because we badlywant to get into the final so we know what we have to do” hesaid.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball commentaryTim Paine smashed four sixes in his 71 off 57 balls•Getty Images

Tasmania has started its Twenty20 Big Bash campaign in emphatic style, crushing Western Australia by 63 runs at the WACA.George Bailey won the toss for the Tigers and had no hesitation batting first on a picture-perfect WACA deck. Opener and man-of-the-match Tim Paine anchored the innings with a level-headed 71 off 57 balls and was well supported by the brutal Travis Birt, who hit four sixes on his way to a 22-ball 43.The pair shared an 86-run partnership and combined for eight of the Tigers’ 11 sixes – hitting five of them in a ten-ball burst between overs 9.4 and 11.1.Seamer Mick Lewis – who at 36 came out of retirement to play for the Warriors in the Big Bash – did his best for the hosts with three wickets, but his four overs were costly, going for 46 runs.Fast bowler Nathan Coulter-Nile’s third over looked to have swung the momentum back towards the Warriors, taking the crucial wicket of Birt and conceding just three runs, but cameos from Bailey (20 off 13) and Dutch international Ryan ten Doeschate (12 off 9) lifted the Tigers to an imposing total of 189 from their 20 overs.The Warriors appeared to have the firepower capable of chasing down the target, but they got off to a horror start when Shaun Marsh was trapped in front for a duck by offspinner Jason Krejza on the third ball of the innings. Pinch-hitter Luke Ronchi soon followed, chipping a drive to Birt at cover, and the Warriors chase went from bad to worse when ten Doeschate picked up the wickets of Chris Gayle and Luke Pomersbach in his only over.From there, the hosts never looked likely to win, limping to a disappointing 126 all out with an over to spare. The spin of Krejza (2 for 24) and Doherty (2 for 22) worked a treat for the Tigers, who had gambled playing two spinners on the bouncy WACA pitch, while the Warriors had left out their only recognised spinner in Aaron Heal – a move which proved costly.Tasmania has an eight-day break before it travels to the Gabba to play the Bulls, while Western Australia will face New South Wales in Sydney on January 9.