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FORMER Test batsman Alex Doolan’s fortunes have continued to plummet batting for a state second XI side on Monday.
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The Launceston batsman fell for just one, leg before to little-known South Australian seamer Elliot Opie during Tasmania’s disastrous Futures League clash at Lindisfarne.
The hosts were all out for 118 inside 40 overs, with Doolan’s wicket leaving Tasmania perilously at 5-35.
Only tailenders Corey Murfet (42) and Michael Jones (36) saved their side from annihilation, coming together at 8-35 on the Hobart wicket.
South Australia were 7-222 at stumps on day one in spite of a fine 6-59 from rising star Hamish Kingston.
Doolan, who skippered the side, has fallen from grace in just the space of 15 months.
He played his fourth and last test match against Pakistan, scoring five and a duck.
On debut for Australia, Doolan hit 89 off 154 balls against the South Africans at Centurion in a test victory.
An out-of-favour Doolan was dropped by Tasmania last month after scoring a six and a duck in his last Sheffield Shield game.
The elegant top-order batsman has scored six first-class centuries and 24 fifties at an 34.10 average over his career.
Doolan has also been snubbed by his Big Bash League Twenty20 club, Brisbane Heat, this season despite the Queenslanders sitting at the foot of the table.