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WA's Paris does damage again to bring down Redbacks

Joel Paris' 11-113 has led WA to an easy Shield victory over SA and him man-of-the-match plaudits. (Matt Turner/AAP PHOTOS)

Joel Paris has ripped through South Australia's batting twice in three days, taking 11 wickets for the match to bowl Western Australia to a 200-run Sheffield Shield win in Adelaide.

After WA declared overnight at 8-377 and set South Australia 355 on the final day to win, Paris claimed figures of 5-39 to have the Redbacks all out for 154.

Paris took the first two wickets, before coming back to finish the job early in the final session.

No South Australian passed 30 in their second innings, as they surrendered inside 63 overs.

After taking 6-74 in the first innings to have the Redbacks all out for 264, Paris was a handful on Sunday in his first Shield match of the summer due to a hamstring injury.

While his career has been stalled by injury in recent years, Paris has never been far from selectors' thoughts after playing two ODIs for Australia in 2016.

So highly is he regarded, he was told during this year's Ashes to be ready to join the squad as cover for Mitchell Starc if the left-armer went down with injury.

The 30-year-old set the tone early when he drew South Australian opener Kelvin Smith's edge, discarding him for a duck.

Paris also had Daniel Drew caught pulling, superbly taken by Hilton Cartwright with one arm above his head at mid wicket.

Cameron Bancroft also took a great catch off Paris, fully outstretched to his left at second slip to remove Jake Lehmann for six.

Cameron Bancroft.
WA's Cameron Bancroft continues to pile up the runs in this season's Sheffield Shield competition.

If Paris was Western Australia's best in the match, Bancroft wasn't far behind with 57 in their first-innings 241 before he hit an even 100 in the visitors' second dig.

Considered third-in-line at the start of the summer to replace the retiring David Warner after the Sydney Test, Bancroft is now averaging 92.5 this season after topping last summer's run-scoring charts.

With his fielding also on song, the 30-year-old is making a compelling case to move ahead of both Marcus Harris and Matt Renshaw in the eyes of Australian selectors.

"He's doing all he possibly can do at the moment," WA coach Adam Voges said.

"He was outstanding all of last season, he has started this season like he did last year.

"He is the premier, form batsman of the competition."

After Bancroft's neat work in the field, Paris then returned to finish the match after tea when he took the edges of both Harry Conway and Wes Agar.

WA's other left-armer Liam Haskett took 3-31, while spinner Corey Rocchiccioli claimed 2-59 in the side's second Shield win of the summer.

The loss marked South Australia's second defeat in three games to start the season, leaving them in fourth spot on the ladder.

"It's pretty disappointing," Redbacks coach Jason Gillespie said.

"In three Shield games, we've had seven individual scores above 40.

"We just can't keep having these performances. We need to be better."

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