Marnus Labuschagne was left filthy after being dismissed for just two in Queensland’s second innings against South Australia.
Labuschagne was caught behind, falling to a brilliant diving catch to Alex Carey down the leg side.
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The Test No. 3 remained at the crease, perhaps indicating he did not hit the ball, before trudging off the ground, adding yet another low score to his recent tally.
Alongside his two on Tuesday, the Aussie Test gun has managed 41, 10 and four in his recent Shield and One Day outings, along with five and 18 in the BBL.
SA are doing Victoria a favour against second-placed Queensland.
The ever reliable Jake Lehmann (74) took the SACAs to 214 after the Bulls posted 185 in the first innings.
Nathan McAndrew and Campbell Thompson then strengthened South Australia’s position by snaring three early wickets, including Usman Khawaja and Labuschagne.
Nearing the end of the day’s play, the Bulls are 3/96 in their second innings, holding a lead of 26 runs.
Earlier, Labuschagne was involved in a humourous incident when he was bowling to SA’s Jordan Buckingham.
Buckingham seemed to poke fun at Labuschagne by yelling ‘no run’ after defending a delivery.
With the very next ball, Labuschagne dropped in a short ball which Buckingham lobbed to a fielder, with Labuschagne giving the departing batsman a cheeky send-off.
Elsewhere, it was a timely drought-breaker for Victorian skipper Will Sutherland.
The Vics set Western Australia a mammoth 9-431 at the WACA, courtesy of an unbeaten ton from captain Will Sutherland.
Sutherland opened up the shoulders on the cusp of lunch as he pushed towards a century before making the call to declare.
The right-hander moved from 70 to 100 in quick time while batting with No. 11 Scott Boland and took off to the sheds once he brought up his second first-class hundred.
Sutherland has had a tough time with the bat, losing his position at No. 7 to Mitch Perry and Fergus O’Neill as a result of one 50 plus score in 24 innings.
But he looked back to his best during his 139-ball innings with shots like the one he crunched over mid wicket off Test paceman Jhye Richardson.
The innings followed a swashbuckling 119 off 109 balls from gloveman Sam Harper at the top of the order on Monday.
Victoria needs just one win across the final three matches to secure a home Sheffield Shield final at Junction Oval next month.
In reply, WA are 1/70 in the second session.
In the other Shield game, New South Wales are cruising against Tasmania in a day/nighter.
Tassie struggled in their opening innings, all out for 136 thanks to a brilliant five wicket haul from Liam Hatcher. In response, NSW are 4-287 in the second session on Day 2.
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