
Tasmanian opener Tim Ward has fallen shy of completing two centuries against Queensland in their drawn Sheffield Shield game.
Ward followed his first innings 144 with 81 as Tasmania reached 3-196 in their second innings.
The captains called a halt to the game 30 minutes before the scheduled tea break on Sunday's last day of play in Adelaide.
The Tigers led by 341 runs after posting 6(dec)-500 in their first innings, with Queensland replying with 5(dec)-355.
The Bulls declared in arrears hoping they would be tasked with a last-day chase.
But Tasmania shut out any thought of a result other than a draw with middling scoring rates on Sunday at Karen Rolton Oval.
The Tigers curiously sent in fast bowler Lawrence Neil-Smith as a nightwatchman late on Saturday.
And on Sunday, Neil-Smith crawled to one run from his first 50 deliveries - the slowest scoring rate in Shield cricket in 25 years of any batsman to have faced a half-century of balls.
South Australia's Tim May didn't score from 52 balls in the domestic competition's final in 1995/96 but his stonewalling helped the Redbacks secure a draw which, in turn, delivered SA the Shield.
Neil-Smith's teammate Charlie Wakim scored just one run from his initial 47 balls on Sunday - he was dismissed for three from 61 balls.
Neil-Smith was not out on 71 from 201 balls, with leftarm spinner Matt Kuhnemann (3-61) taking all the wickets for a frustrated Queensland outfit led by Usman Khawaja, who gave himself and specialist batsman Joe Burns a bowl as the match dwindled to a draw.