Western Australia will be looking to bounce back from a narrow defeat in its opening game of the 2025-26 One-Day Cup when they take on South Australia at Karen Rolton Oval tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Despite falling to a two-wicket defeat in the opening game, there were some promising signs for WA, highlighted by a superb innings from Joel Curtis, who hammered 116 off just 108 balls. The young left-hander showcased his composure and stroke-play ability in the knock and will again be a key figure as WA looks to topple the reigning champions.<\/p>\n
Recent history between these sides has produced some dramatic finishes. In their most recent encounter last February at the WACA ground, South Australia managed a 44-run win after posting 208.<\/p>\n
The two sides were also involved in a thrilling finish at the start of last season. South Australia scraped over the line by two runs, successfully defending 166. Bryce Jackson delivered a stunning spell of 6-31 on that occasion, underlining WA\u2019s depth in bowling talent.<\/p>\n
With both teams still chasing their first win of the 2025-26 One Day Cup season, tomorrow\u2019s clash has already taken on extra significance.<\/p>\n
While Joel Curtis top-scored on Sunday, Sam Whiteman also played a key role in WA\u2019s imposing total of 321. The left-hander has notched scores of 48, 74, and 83 in his last three One-Day Cup innings and has consistently delivered against South Australia with scores of 89, 137* and 48 in their past three meetings.<\/p>\n
WA returns home following tomorrow\u2019s clash and ramp up preparations for the first Sheffield Shield match of the season against New South Wales at the WACA from October 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Australia will be looking to bounce back from a narrow defeat in its opening game of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-162848","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\/162848","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=162848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}