Karramomus take the day one advantage in its Haisman Shield battle with Old Students

After Saturday’s play, it’s advantage Karramomus.

Winning the toss and electing to bat at home, the Bloods started off on a deck that favoured the hitters early apart from Mitch McGrath being undone on eight by tearaway quick Tiron Fernando.

Karramomus continued to accrue runs at a steady rate and looked on track to reach triple figures with just one wicket lost, but Callan McCabe wasn’t willing to watch this game pass him by.

The Englishman sent Ethan Baxter back to the sheds for 20 and, three balls later, did the same to Nathan Jones without troubling the scoring.

It clearly ruffled the Bloods’ feathers, but youngsters Declan Newbound and Zavier Davidson gritted their teeth, planted their feet and went to task.

The former Northerners’ duo piled on another 72 runs for the third wicket, but once the pair were separated, the game took a different tack.

It began with Liam Callegari entering the fold.

Twenty four overs later, Callegari had a five-for and the innings was over.

The tricky legspinner started the clinic by cannoning one into Newbound’s pads, gone for a well made 79 off 84 balls, before doing the exact same to Davidson on 33.

From there, Callegari (5-40) worked in tandem with Hamza Abbas to send all five remaining Bloods’ batters packing, seeing Karramomus fall for 210 all out, well short of what the worm would’ve predicted at drinks.

But if the hosts felt hard done by after not posting a mammoth total, they sure didn’t show it.

Lachie Keady came out like a man possessed with the new ball after posting 22 with the stick earlier, removing Callan McCabe, Felix Odell and Oscar Lambourn all for eight runs or less in a searing opening spell.

Opener Sam O’Brien was snared by Zane Newbound on 10, meaning Students’ top four - which has scored a huge chunk of runs this season - is now out of the game.

When play resumes on Saturday, Rehan Bari (10 not out) and former Pine Lodge import Emile Haratbar (eight not out) have the huge task of making a dent in the 156 run gap that separates the two sides.