A FINE all-round performance from Worcestershire's Jack Shantry helped earn Greenvale Kangaroos first innings points in their rain-affected two day game with visiting Frankston Peninsula in the Victorian Premier Cricket Bartercard Men's Premier Firsts.

Paceman Shantry picked up three wickets and finished as second top scorer with 42 as the Kangaroos eased to their 174 target and a three wicket success with 11 balls to spare.

The first day of the match the previous weekend had been washed out so the game effectively became a one innings per side contest.

Frankston elected to bat after winning the toss with Shantry taking the new ball.

He made his first breakthrough with the fourth wicket of the innings with 80 on the board and picked up two more to finish with the impressive figures of 3-28 from his 10 overs.

Frankston closed on 173-9 from their 50 overs.

The Kangaroos did not make the best of starts to their reply and were 74-4 when Shantry came to the wicket following the dismissal of county team-mate Ben Cox for 10.

He figured in the match-winning stand of 75 with J. Lidgett who top-scored with 52 before being run out at 149-5.

There was then a mini wobble with Shantry also run out at 163-7 with 11 still needed but the Kangaroos got over the finishing line.

Ross Whiteley picked up two wickets and may have a key role to play with the bat if Prospect CC are to chase down home side Tea Tree Gully's total of 267 in a South Australian Cricket Association first grade match.

New Road all-rounder Whiteley came on first change and split an opening partnership of 77 and finished with figures of 2-49 from 13 overs as Tea Tree Gully were bowled out in 77.3 overs.

Prospect CC finished the first day on 29-1 from 16 overs with Whiteley, who came in at number three unbeaten on 11 from 25 balls.

The game is due to be completed on January 24.

Worcestershire opener Richard Oliver will hope to make another sizeable contribution when Geelong City continue their pursuit of a modest 106 target for first innings points next weekend in the home Geelong Cricket Association Division One clash with St. Joseph's.

The normally aggressive Oliver battled it out for 17 overs to remain unbeaten on six as the Sharks closed day one on 22-2.

Oliver went into the game at the top of the Geelong batting averages with 451 runs in nine Division One innings at an average of 56.38.

St. Joseph's won the toss and chose to bat and were made to really work hard for their runs, scoring at barely one and a half runs per over throughout their innings.

They were eventually dismissed for 105 in 63.2 overs.

The bowlers to do the damage were Kent Agg, who took the new ball, and Adam Marsland. Agg finished with 4-31 from 19 overs and Marsland 3-22 from 14 overs.

Geelong will hope to over-take their opponents total and try and force an outright victory when the game resumes on January 24.

County wicketkeeper Joe Clarke's side, South Perth, went down by 63 runs away to Claremont-Nedlands in a Western Cricket Association first grade match.

The home side made 183-4 in their 50 overs after opting to bat with Clarke taking one catch.

After a run of three successive half centuries, Clarke was dismissed for six batting at number three as South Perth were bowled out for 120 in 42.5 overs.