Seamer Sam Rainbird produced Tasmania’s best-ever Sheffield Shield bowling figures to leave Queensland on the ropes in their crucial clash in Hobart.
The left-armer took the amazing figures of 8-21 from 14.5 overs to help bundle out the visitors for just 104.
The 29-year-old Hobart local sparked two devastating collapses with the visitors losing 4-7 and then 6-21.
Only openers Joe Burns (28), Bryce Street (23) and captain Jimmy Peirson (23) offered any resistance.
Tasmania sent Queensland in to bat and the Bulls stumbled their way to 4-83 at lunch, only for matters to get worse after the break on the green Bellerive Oval wicket.
In reply, Tasmania reached 1-52 off 15 overs.
Both sides harbour an outside chance of making next week’s Shield final but require results in Adelaide and Perth to go their way.
Meanwhile, Victoria made a disastrous start to the top-of-the-table final-round Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia in Perth.
Needing to simply avoid defeat to shore up hosting rights for next week’s final, the Vics slipped to 5-58 at the end of the first session on day one.
WA won the toss and elected to bowl first, and Aaron Hardie ensured the decision was vindicated.
The young allrounder took 4-12 from eight overs as Victoria’s much-vaunted batting line-up found few answers on the WACA deck.
Hardie knocked over opener Travis Dean (3), captain Peter Handscomb (1), the free-scoring Nic Maddinson (4) and Jake Fraser-McGurk (4).
Will Pucovski made 22 on his return from concussion before he was caught behind off Matthew Kelly.
Middle-order batter Matt Short (17no) and wicketkeeper Sam Harper (5no) are at the crease.
Two debutants lined-up in the form of Victorian medium-pacer Cam McClure and Western Australian 17-year-old Teague Wyllie.
A win for Western Australia will likely be enough for the March 31 final to be staged in Perth.
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