WA paceman Mitchell Johnson celebrates his fourth wicket against Tasmania. Picture: Nikki Davis-Jones Source: Herald Sun
WA faces a mountainous task to make Tasmania bat for a second time in the Sheffield Shield match at Bellerive.
The visitors reached stumps on day two at 1-54 in their second innings, still 327 behind the Tigers' first dig total of 448.
The Warriors will resume with Marcus North unbeaten on 33 and Sam Whiteman 19, and with a point to prove to new coach Justin Langer after they made just 67 in their first innings.
The Shield's leading wicket-taker, Jackson Bird (1-16), had already struck in the final session on Monday, bowling Marcus Harris for one.
Earlier, the Tigers piled up a massive 381-run first-innings lead on the back of Ben Dunk's 97, an unbeaten late cameo of 76 from James Faulkner and skipper George Bailey's 66.
A fiery four-wicket haul from Test hopeful Mitchell Johnson had threatened to limit the lead, but Faulkner put on 93 for the last wicket with Bird as WA's wheels fell off.
Johnson finished with 4-103 after a menacing and controlled display of speed that could have the 31-year-old in the reckoning for a Test return in the absence of injured paceman James Pattinson.
The 2009 international cricketer of the year floored Tigers keeper Tim Paine with a vicious bouncer and hit several others in the home side's batting line-up to answer Bird's 6-25 on day one.
Johnson had Bailey caught at deep fine leg at 4-275 before Paine (4) and Luke Butterworth (2) were out to slips catches from superb deliveries for 6-295.
A short ball at Xavier Doherty's throat had the spinner fending a catch to short leg and on his way for two at 9-355.
A prolonged verbal battle between Johnson and Faulkner then followed as the Tigers all-rounder mounted his brave cameo.
Tigers opener Dunk surpassed his previous best of 45 but fell agonisingly short of his first hundred when he was caught behind off the bowling of Nathan Coulter-Nile (2-110).
WA spinner Michael Beer finished with 3-88.
SCOREBOARD - DAY 2
Western Australia 1st innings 67
Tasmania 1st Innings
M COSGROVE c Whiteman b Beer 42 (30)
B DUNK c Triffitt b Coulter-Nile 97 (208)
A DOOLAN b Beer 42 (72)
G BAILEY c Hogan b Johnson 66 (173)
A BLIZZARD lbw Beer 20 (55)
T PAINE c Marsh b Johnson 4 (12)
L BUTTERWORTH c Marsh b Johnson 2 (5)
J FAULKNER not out 76 (105)
E GULBIS c Triffitt b Coulter-Nile 35 (58)
X DOHERTY c Harris b Johnson 2 (8)
J BIRD c Triffitt b Hogan 26 (62)
Sundries (26b 8lb 2nb) 36
Total: 448
Fall: 56 (Cosgrove), 130 (Doolan), 250 (Dunk), 275 (Bailey), 291 (Paine), 295 (Butterworth), 301 (Blizzard), 350 (Gulbis), 355 (Doherty), 448 (Bird).
Bowling: M Johnson 30-8-103-4, M Hogan 32-8-94-1 (2nb), N Coulter-Nile 30-4-110-2, M Beer 34-8-88-3, M North 5-0-19-0.
Overs: 131
Western Australia 2nd Innings
S WHITEMAN not out 19 (46)
M HARRIS b Bird 1 (4)
M NORTH not out 33 (64)
Sundries (1lb) 1
Total: One wicket for 54
Fall: 2 (Harris).
Bowling: L Butterworth 6-2-9-0, J Bird 4-0-16-1, J Faulkner 3-1-4-0, X Doherty 4-0-16-0, E Gulbis 2-0-8-0.
Overs: 19
Umpires: Tony Ward, Ashley Barrow. Match Referee: Ric Evans.
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