NSW allrounder Moises Henriques made his maiden first-class century a big one and combined with Trent Copeland to pile on the agony for Tasmania’s bowlers in their Sheffield Shield cricket match on Thursday.

At lunch on day two at Bankstown Oval, the Blues were 7-424 with Henriques on 150 and Copeland on 55.

They piled on 122 runs in 32 overs in a session which didn’t produce a wicket for the seven Tasmanian bowlers.

Both batsmen recorded their highest first-class scores.

Henriques, 25, notched his ton in the eighth over of the morning, which started 10 minutes early after bad light stopped play three overs short on Wednesday evening.

The Australian one-day and T20 representative raced from 93 to 101 with successive boundaries.

He hit three sixes in the session and had tallied four in total along with 14 fours.

The century came in his seventh season and 34th first-class game and easily eclipsed his previous best of 82, one of nine half-centuries.

It continued his hot start to the domestic season following a brief and unproductive stint with Welsh county Glamorgan.

He averaged only eight in tough batting conditions in Britain, but started the new Australian season with scores of 78 in both the one and four-day games against Western Australia.

Copeland, a Sydney grade clubmate of Henriques at St George, chalked up his second first-class half century.

He struck six fours and passed his previous best of 53 just before lunch.