{"id":193286,"date":"2025-10-06T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/193286\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:18:13","slug":"handscomb-shines-before-sa-pair-dig-in-with-key-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/193286\/","title":{"rendered":"Handscomb shines before SA pair dig in with key stand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Handscomb’s century and 64 from Fergus O’Neill allowed Victoria to get within nine of SA’s first innings<\/p>\n

South Australia v Victoria | Sheffield Shield | Day 3<\/p>\n

Peter Handscomb has reminded Australian Test selectors of his talents, scoring another Sheffield Shield century against South Australia.<\/p>\n

After the Victorian captain top scored with 103 on Monday at Adelaide Oval and declared seven runs behind the home side, a crucial sixth-wicket stand rescued the day for SA.<\/p>\n

Daniel Drew (42no) and Harry Neilsen (41no) took the hosts from a precarious 5-82 to 169 at stumps, a lead of 176 going into the last day.<\/p>\n

Resuming on 38 with the score 3-167, Handscomb anchored the Victorian innings on day three.<\/p>\n

Handscomb brings up Shield century No.9 against SA<\/p>\n

In reply to SA’s 350, they were in trouble at 6-199 before Handscomb combined with Fergus O’Neill for a seventh-wicket stand of 125.<\/p>\n

Spinner Lloyd Pope had O’Neill caught-and-bowled for 64 and Pope dismissed Handscomb, caught by Jordan Buckingham in the deep for the eighth wicket.<\/p>\n

Handscomb, whose most recent Test was in March 2023, faced 180 balls and hit seven fours and two sixes.<\/p>\n

Half of his 18 Shield tons have been against SA.<\/p>\n

Handscomb declared at 9-343, with Pope and Hanno Jacobs taking three wickets apiece.<\/p>\n

SA steadily lost early wickets in their second innings. After a duck in his first dig, No.3 and Test hopeful Nathan McSweeney was dismissed for six.<\/p>\n

Opener Henry Hunt and Jake Lehmann starred with centuries in SA’s first innings. But when impressive Victorian left-arm spinner Doug Warren dismissed them in successive overs, the home side was five down for not nearly enough.<\/p>\n

That brought together Drew and Neilsen, who grew in confidence as they batted through to stumps.<\/p>\n

Warren had claimed 3-61 from 19 overs.<\/p>\n

Sheffield Shield 2025-26 standings<\/p>\n

Team<\/p>\n

\n Matches played\n <\/p>\n

M<\/p>\n

\n Wins\n <\/p>\n

W<\/p>\n

\n Losses\n <\/p>\n

L<\/p>\n

\n Drawn\n <\/p>\n

D<\/p>\n

\n No results\n <\/p>\n

N\/R<\/p>\n

\n Deductions\n <\/p>\n

Ded.<\/p>\n

\n Batting Bonus\n <\/p>\n

Bat<\/p>\n

\n Bowling Bonus\n <\/p>\n

Bowl<\/p>\n

\n Total points\n <\/p>\n

PTS<\/p>\n

1
\n \"NSW
\n NSW Men
\n NSW<\/p>\n

0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0<\/p>\n

2
\n \"Queensland
\n Queensland Bulls
\n QLD<\/p>\n

0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0<\/p>\n

3
\n \"South
\n South Australia Men
\n SA<\/p>\n

0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0<\/p>\n

4
\n \"Tasmanian
\n Tasmanian Tigers Men
\n TAS<\/p>\n

0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0<\/p>\n

5
\n \"Victoria
\n Victoria Men
\n VIC<\/p>\n

0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0<\/p>\n

6
\n \"Western
\n Western Australia Men
\n WA<\/p>\n

0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0<\/p>\n

Legend<\/p>\n

M: Matches played<\/p>\n

W: Wins<\/p>\n

L: Losses<\/p>\n

D: Drawn<\/p>\n

N\/R: No results<\/p>\n

Ded.: Deductions<\/p>\n

Bat: Batting Bonus<\/p>\n

Bowl: Bowling Bonus<\/p>\n

PTS: Total points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Handscomb’s century and 64 from Fergus O’Neill allowed Victoria to get within nine of SA’s first innings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-193286","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\/193286","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=193286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}