New South Wales are now 10 points clear of their nearest rival on the Sheffield Shield ladder after beating Queensland by 133 runs at Blacktown Olympic Park.
The Blues bowled out the Bulls for 280 in the final session of the first ever Shield match at the western Sydney venue to claim their fifth win from seven starts in the competition this summer.
NSW v Queensland, Sheffield Shield, Sydney, 4th day
New South Wales 9 for 458 dec (Maddinson 137, Hauritz 110*, Swan 4-86) and 3 for 168 dec (Khawaja 78*) beat Queensland 213 (Robinson 77, O'Keefe 3-23) and 280 (Townsend 80, Bollinger 3-64) by 133 runs
NSW surge to 133-run victory
Bollinger ended the innings with 3-64 while fellow Test exile Nathan Hauritz also chipped in with three scalps, finishing with 3-76 including the final two wickets.
The victory capped another good performance for the Blues who dominated most of the match, setting the scene by making 9(dec)-458 in their first innings with teenager Nic Maddinson (137) and Hauritz (110) both scoring centuries.
"Winning's a habit. Once you start winning and once you start getting that feeling of how to win and how to play it just snowballs from there," the former Test quick said.
"At the moment, when you're sort of on the crest of a wave type-thing and you're almost bulletproof, you just go about your cricket with supreme confidence."
The 32-year-old has 28 wickets at 15.21 this summer but could be struggling to be fit for the Bulls' next match against Victoria in the Twenty20 Big Bash on January 2.
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