Twenty20 match | 2010/11 season
Played at Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth
30 December 2010 - day/night (20-over match)
Toss Tasmania, who chose to bat
Tasmania 6 for 189 (Paine 71, Birt 43) beat Western Australia 126 (Voges 38, Naved-ul-Hasan 3-19) by 63 runs
Tasmania won by 63 runs
Twenty20 debuts TM Beaton and MR Swart (Western Australia)
Player of the match TD Paine (Tasmania)
Umpires SD Fry and MD Martell
TV umpire IH Lock
Match referee RJ Evans
12th men: AK Heal (WA) and JW Wells (TAS)
Tasmanian opener Tim Paine says thoughts of the Australian captaincy were the furthest thing from his mind as he blitzed the Warriors with a sparkling 71 in the Tigers' KFC Twenty20 Big Bash win on Thursday night.
Wooden spooners in the KFC Big Bash last summer, Tasmania produced a 63-run win over Western Australia in front of 14,883 people at the WACA to kick-start this campaign in the best possible style.
The pair shared an 86-run partnership and combined for eight of the Tigers' 11 sixes - hitting five of them in a ten-ball burst between overs 9.4 and 11.1.
Paine also showed no indication that former Australian skipper Steve Waugh's suggestion he could be a future Test captain had added any extra weight of expectation to the 26-year-old.
"I personally probably got a little bit carried away trying to hit the ball a bit far and missed out on quite a few balls I probably could have hit for boundaries."
"But at the same time, we had some blokes like George (Bailey) and Travis come in and hit the ball cleanly from the go."
"I wasn't thinking about that too much when I came out to bat," said Paine.
Tasmania has an eight-day break before it travels to the Gabba to play the Bulls, while Western Australia will face New South Wales in Sydney on January 9.
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