Sam Konstas will have one more Sheffield Shield match before the mid-season break to rectify his difficult start to the red-ball summer after another low score for NSW.
Konstas was dismissed for 19 in the second innings against Tasmania, again beaten by a balling jagging back off a good length, this time from Jackson Bird.
It took a strong catch by wicketkeeper Jake Doran to send Konstas on his way, but it was a similar type of ball that has been his downfall regularly this season.
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Konstas, 20, made a hundred against India ahead of the Australian domestic summer, but has passed 50 just once in 11 innings for the Blues since.
He is named to play against England for the Prime Minister’s XI this weekend in the nation’s capital. In the same fixture last year against India, was one of the catalysts for Konstas’ memorable Australian debut.
Konstas struck a century against a strong Indian attack, delivering a glimpse of the reverse ramps he brought out on debut in the Boxing Day Test.
NSW were 2/102 in their second innings at lunch on Day 4, still in a deficit to the Tigers after they declared at 8/623 the evening prior.
Centuries to Caleb Jewell, Tim Ward and Nikhil Chaudhary set up the monster score for the visitors.
Queensland handed Victoria its first loss of the Shield season on Monday night, winning by seven wickets under lights at the Gabba
Gurinder Sandhu was named man of the match for his game-changing 5/23 in the second innings.
Xavier Bartlett did his chances of an Ashes squad call-up no harm, making 72 with the bat before taking 4/35 with the ball in the first innings.
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