Bulls sweep to innings victory

Queensland 509 (Love 186, Hopes 90, Hayden 76, Hogg 5-105) beat Western Australia 208 and 285 (Rogers 94, Langer 67, Johnson 3-61) by an innings and 16 runs
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Andrew Symonds celebrates after removing Chris Rogers © Getty Images

Queensland swept to an innings-and-16-run victory over Western Australia to lift themselves off the foot of the Pura Cup table. The home side threatened to put up a fight as Justin Langer and Chris Rogers added 166 for the first wicket, after the Warriors extended their lead to 301, but the Queensland attack worked as a unit to dismantle the resistance.

After his first-innings failure, Langer spent useful time in the middle ahead of the first Test especially in light of Phil Jaques's recent stunning form. He and Rogers scored at four-an-over before James Hopes broke through and the slide started. Chris Hartley's fine match behind the stumps continued as he collected an edge off Langer and quickly pocketed another chance as Michael Hussey fell for a duck.

Four runs later Rogers's resolute innings came to end six short of a century as Andrew Symonds made the first of two incisions. The middle order was then jolted by Mitchell Johnson's pace as he again hurt the Warriors with big-name scalps. Damien Martyn was caught by Symonds before Adam Gilchrist's lean run continued with another nick to the keeper.

With the powerful top order sliced apart the only question was whether the Bulls could wrap up the points with a day to spare. The tail didn't offer much meaningful resistance as the wickets continued to be shared around with Shane Watson nabbing a brace. Johnson completed the rout when he removed Ben Edmondson as Hartley took his 10th catch of the match.