Ten wickets fell and 425 runs were scored as Western Australia dominated play on the second day of the four day Pura Cup match in Perth today.

Resuming at 134 for three wickets, the Warriors belted 282 further runs in two sessions to the tea break when they were all out for 416, leading the hapless Victorians by 306 runs.

In the slightly extended third session the Bushrangers had erased 143 runs losing three wickets along the way.

Half centuries to Damien Martyn, Adam Gilchrist, Ryan Campbell and Brad Hogg and a century partnership between Martyn and Campbell and a half century partnership between Gilchrist and Hogg caused much of the woe for the beleaguered Victorian bowlers.

The day started out very warm as overnight the temperature hovered around 29 degrees Celsius and at the start of play there were strong gusts of wind from the south west.

The fourth wicket pairing of Damien Martyn and Ryan Campbell had added 94 runs to their over night score. Campbell was dismissed in the first session just after the drinks break when he lofting a ball from Michael Lewis at the mid off Brad Hodge to be caught after making 75 (from 99 balls). His 24th career first-class fifty was littered with 14 fours to all parts of the ground. He was especially brutal through cover and third man.

Before his wicket was lost, the first session drinks break had to be taken early due to Campbell requiring treatment after he was struck by Cassell. Campbell's protective box was broken into two pieces and had to be replaced, and he was a long time before being able to stand, such was the severity of the blow he received. The next ball he faced he late cut through third man. Three balls later he was out and Western Australia had lost it's fourth wicket (worth 123 runs) with 228 runs on the board.

Test comrades Damien Martyn and Adam Gilchrist enjoyed half an hour together during which Gilchrist went on a spree against Cassell striking consecutive boundaries from his first four deliveries of his thirteenth over and a fifth from the last ball of the very same over.

Martyn was out in the next over playing back to the bowler Lewis, caught and bowled for a slow but steady 66 (136 balls). It was his 58th first-class career half century, scoring nine fours along the way.

At five wickets for 265 Gilchrist was joined by Brad Hogg and in five overs together they pushed the score to 287 at which the lunch break arrived.

Their 87 run partnership was broken when Gilchrist top edged Jonathan Moss in his first over of a new spell to Hodge at mid off and was caught for 79 (from 81 balls). His innings was his 29th fifty in his first-class career and included 13 fours spread mostly forward and either side of the wicket and a six to backward square leg off the bowling of Hodge in that bowlers only over. Western Australia had lost its sixth wicket with 351 runs on the scoreboard.

Matthew Nicholson 4 (17 balls) was out leg before wicket playing down the wrong line to Jon Moss. Western Australia now seven for 369. Then in the same over three balls later Jo Angel went for a duck when he edged Moss to White at second slip and WA were eight wickets down with no improvement to the score.

Michael Clark played a supporting role whilst Brad Hogg started hitting Moss out of the park. Hogg hit two sixes in Moss's tenth over. The ninth wicket fell at 388 when Clark was out to Cassell in the next over driving down the wrong line and was bowled without scoring after a patient 14 balls faced.

Paul Wilson struck a four from his first ball faced and played out the rest of the over without adding to his score. That was the last time he would face. Hogg then returned to belting Moss out of the park a further three occasions. That made it five sixes in seven balls faced from the same bowler.

Brad Hogg's very entertaining innings was brought to an abrupt halt two overs later when Moss reaped revenge, bowling Hogg out for 93 (116 balls) that included eleven boundaries and the infamous five sixes. In his final fifty minutes at the crease Hogg took his score from 51 to 93 in 31 balls, taking the Warriors from seven for 369 to all out 416, almost single handedly. This was his 15th fifty in his first-class career, and an innings sure to stick in the minds of 1703 people who watched it.

Paul Wilson not out 4 (4 balls) at the close of the innings.

Victoria had used seven bowlers of which Jon Moss (4-50) was most successful. Three wickets for one hundred runs was Michael Lewis's contribution and a there was a wicket each to Robert Cassell, Shane Warne, and Cameron White. Will Carr and Brad Hodge went wicket-less.

Western Australia now had a lead of 306 runs and there were 41 overs remaining to be bowled in the day.

The first wicket pairing of Jason Arnberger and Jon Moss had put the 78 runs on the board when they were parted with Arnberger falling victim to Hogg caught at first slip by Martyn for 39 (77 balls).

Moss 34 (72 balls) was then bowled by Wilson without adding to the score near the end of the very next over.

Brad Hodge was Brad Hogg's second scalp when he too was bowled out, playing the ball into the stumps behind him with the score having progressed to 85 for the third wicket.

Michael Klinger and Graeme Rummans negotiated the remaining 15 overs to stumps, posting their fifty run partnership milestone along the way.

At stumps Victoria were still 163 runs in arrears with 143 for three wickets down and Klinger on 29 (45 balls) and Rummans on 26 (49 balls).

Brad Hogg had probably his most fulfilling day in first-class cricket.

"Personally and team-wise thats a really good days cricket and the best I have had in my career," he said at stumps.

"The important thing is that we go on and win the game. We can certainly win it from here.

"From my point of view, both my batting and bowling really came together. It is not often that you get that sort of chance all in one day.

But was he disappointed not to have turned his fifty into a hundred ? "No, it doesn't matter as much as perhaps going on to win the game."

© David Bebb

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