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Jason Behrendorff finished with 14 wickets for the match - the ninth-best match figures in Sheffield Shield history - as Western Australia won by an innings against Victoria

A wrap of the second day's play of the 8th round match between South Australia and Queensland

A wrap of the second day's play of the 8th round match between New South Wales and Tasmania

Jason Behrendorff finished with 9 for 37, the fifth-best Sheffield Shield figures, to help Western Australia gain control against Victoria

A wrap of the first day's play of the 8th round match between New South Wales and Tasmania

A wrap of the first day's play of the 8th round match between South Australia and Queensland

Queensland wicketkeeper Chris Hartley will miss his first Sheffield Shield match in nearly 10 years after breaking a finger while batting in club cricket at the weekend

Daniel Marsh has been ousted as Tasmania coach, effective immediately, following an extended run of under-performance by the Tigers in the Sheffield Shield

A stubborn hand by Chris Hartley and a more fluent one by Joe Burns allowed Queensland to comfortably evade defeat to New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield match at the SCG

William Somerville claimed six wickets for New South Wales but Joe Burns, Peter Forrest and Chris Hartley resisted effectively for Queensland

James Pattinson took five wickets on his first-class comeback from injury, helping Victoria extend their lead at the top of the points table with a 124-run win against South Australia

Western Australia knocked off the target of 54 within 10 overs to seal a comfortable nine-wicket win against Tasmania in Hobart

Victoria wicketkeeper Sam Harper was hospitalised with a heavy concussion after being hit on the head by Jake Lehmann's bat in the Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide

Western Australia extended their lead with a solid batting performance against Tasmania on day two of their Sheffield Shield game in Hobart

Moises Henriques and Peter Nevill shared a 291-run stand, the highest partnership for New South Wales against Queensland, to lead the hosts' dominance on day two

Debutant Cameron Green took five wickets as Tasmania were bowled out for 198 before Western Australia's openers reduced the first-innings deficit to 49 at the end of first day's play in Hobart

Fifteen wickets fell in Adelaide as South Australia ended the first day at 5 for 80 after dismissing Victoria for 184

Moises Henriques, Kurtis Patterson and Nick Larkin made runs on the first day of New South Wales' Sheffield Shield tie against Queensland at the SCG

Temperatures of over 40 degree celsius forced Cricket NSW to cancel the weekend's club cricket games although the Sheffield Shield game between New South Wales and Queensland remains unaffected

Australia batsman Nic Maddinson will miss a second straight Sheffield Shield match because of 'personal reasons'