South Australia fall short in One-Day Cup opener against NSW<\/p>\n
South Australia have fallen short in its One-Day Cup season opener, losing against New South Wales by 131 runs.<\/p>\n
With captain Nathan McSweeney on Australia A duties, Alex Carey stepped up to lead the side and elected to bowl first after winning the toss. The match also marked a special milestone for debutant Harry Manenti, who was presented his Baggy Red by older brother and teammate Ben Manenti, surrounded by family and the squad in a touching pre-game moment.<\/p>\n
South Australia struck early through Brendan Doggett, who removed Blake Nikitaras with a sharp catch at third slip by Jason Sangha. Despite the early breakthrough, NSW recovered through a strong partnership between Matthew Gilkes and Kurtis Patterson, before Doggett struck again to dismiss Patterson.<\/p>\n
Wes Agar then delivered a fiery spell, removing Jack Edwards and Moises Henriques in quick succession. South Australia\u2019s bowlers kept things tight, with Lloyd Pope economical on return from a UK stint, and Jordan Buckingham threatening across multiple spells. NSW finished their innings at 7\/288, setting South Australia a target of 289 for victory.<\/p>\n
In reply, South Australia started positively with a 62-run stand between Daniel Drew and Mackenzie Harvey, but momentum shifted quickly. Carey fell early, and a collapse followed as Tanveer Sangha and Chris Green combined with the ball.<\/p>\n
From 1\/84, South Australia slumped to 6\/106 at the halfway mark.<\/p>\n
Despite some late resistance from Brendan Doggett (28 off 34) and Jordan Buckingham (15* off 19), the chase never regained traction. South Australia were bowled out well short, with T Sangha (4\/35) and Green (4\/25) sharing eight wickets in a match-winning spin display.<\/p>\n
Mackenzie Harvey top-scored for South Australia with 60 off 55, while Wes Agar led the bowling with 2\/44 from his 10 overs. On debut, Harry Manenti returned figures of 0\/37 from six overs and made 5 with the bat.<\/p>\n
South Australia will look to bounce back quickly, with their next One-Day Cup fixture set for Wednesday, September 24 at Karen Rolton Oval, where they\u2019ll host Western Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australia fall short in One-Day Cup opener against NSW South Australia have fallen short in its One-Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-156099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}