World News – AU – Neser featured with five, Green among races at Shield

Young Boom from Western Australia, Cameron Green, missed the opportunity to issue a first test request on a day when the depth of the country’s bowling was on display

Queensland fashion designer Michael Neser reminded selectors he should be considered the best of the rest behind the big four rapids with five wicket transport on Sheffield Shield’s season opening day

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Young spin sensation Lloyd Pope also collected a sack of five, but fellow leggy Mitchell Swepson was arguably the most impressive of the duo despite being the only casualty to show for his toil

Michael Neser on day one of the Sheffield Shield game between Queensland and Tasmania Credit: Getty Images

Australia’s top six almost picked for first test, but Mitchell Marsh’s ankle injury left the race open in the all-round stakes

With a pink ball game for the first time against India, Australia likely won’t need a top six bowling option until the series likely heads to Sydney for the third test

Green, coming back from stress fractures in his back, is unlikely to play before the final rounds in the Adelaide hub, but highlighted his ability with the bat with half a century against South Australia

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Strike at No4, Green hit 56 out of 119 balls but played all around a pope’s delivery which recovered from the field and trapped him flat in front

In her sixth first class game, 20-year-old Pope falls short of the finished article and struggles to control Karen Rolton Oval

While expensive at times, the redhead also has tricks up its sleeve, as Cameron Bancroft discovered when he was tricked into drifting and bowling as lunch approached

If the Pope wanted precision lessons, he would have to get a tape of Swepson plying his trade in the nearby park 25

Swepson finished with 1/68 of 27 overs, his ability to play a defensive role allowing Bulls captain Usman Khawaja to attack with his faster men It was a display that should reassert selectors his position as as Australia’s next slow pitcher if Nathan Lyon was unavailable for injury

As he has done in recent seasons, Neser has proven to be a handful for shield beaters with his precision and subtle out-of-seam movements.

He claimed three wickets before lunch, then returned to blunt Tasmania’s lower-ranking retaliation by sacking Peter Siddle, in his new state debut, for 33

Neser has been on the sidelines on the Test side for two years now but hasn’t been able to break through for a loose green behind Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and James Pattinson

The Bulls were 0/7 in response to Tasmania’s first 250 innings at stumps on day one, while WA was 5/290 near the end of the game

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