Bailey, Lynn go big in Premier Cricket

George Bailey and Chris Lynn have each smashed huge scores in the Premier Cricket competitions in Brisbane and Hobart respectively.

Both batsmen may have missed out on national selection for next month's World T20 tournament in India, but they gave devastating illustrations of their power-hitting in a couple of rollicking innings, Bailey making 202 and Lynn 185.

On a day when Michael Clarke's grade cricket comeback in Sydney was supposed to grab the headlines, it was Bailey and Lynn who stole the limelight.

Bailey, playing for South Hobart Sandy Bay against North Hobart, ended a lean run at national and first-class level in spectacular fashion, hammering 202 from 218 balls, with 23 fours and eight sixes.

The 33-year-old wasn't the only former Test batsman in the runs, with fellow Tigers rep Alex Doolan making 108 as South Hobart piled on 7-452.

Quick Single: South Hobart v North Hobart scorecard

Lynn meanwhile, registered his third-highest score of the Premier Cricket summer, smashing 185 for Toombul to follow the pair of double centuries he blazed earlier this summer as his side declared at 7-429.

The innings follows scores of 209 and 259 also made for his Brisbane club side this summer, taking his tally to 758 runs at 151.6 from six innings. 

The 25-year-old was a runaway winner of this year's KFC Big Bash League Player of the Tournament award, having dominated for Brisbane Heat with 378 runs at a strike-rate of 173.39, including an all-time record 27 sixes.

Quick Single: Toombul v University of Queensland scorecard

Lynn was selected for Australia's T20 side on the back of his scintillating form in that tournament, however his returns of 17, 2 and 13 against World T20 favourites India weren't enough to earn him selection for the ICC's marquee Twenty20 event.

Bailey, who skippered Australia to the last World T20 tournament – in Bangladesh in 2014 – also wound up on the selection scrapheap, despite a strong BBL summer and his considerable experience in Indian conditions through the Indian Premier League. 

The right-hander's scores have fallen away in the back-end of this summer, with his most recent scores prior to today's double-hundred reading 0, 5, 33, 0, 2, 6 and 10.