{"id":217747,"date":"2025-10-16T12:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217747\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:49:22","slug":"neser-boosts-ashes-hopes-with-four-for-against-south-australia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217747\/","title":{"rendered":"Neser boosts Ashes hopes with four-for against South Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Neser has done his hopes of playing an Ashes Test this summer some good, taking four wickets for Queensland to bowl South Australia out for 228<\/p>\n

South Australia v Queensland | Sheffield Shield | Day 1<\/p>\n

Michael Neser has continued his hot start to the summer with he and Mitchell Swepson taking four wickets each to bowl South Australia out for 228.<\/p>\n

The Bulls went to stumps on day one of their Sheffield Shield clash at 0-26 in reply to South Australia, with Usman Khawaja not out 22 at Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n

Almost the forgotten man in the great pace-bowling debate ahead of the Ashes, Neser ripped the heart out of Tasmania with 4-75 in the opening round.<\/p>\n

And he backed it up again on Wednesday with 4-30, after South Australia had done well to build a base of 2-133.<\/p>\n

Every ball of Michael Neser’s ripping new-ball spell<\/p>\n

After taking the top of Nathan McSweeney’s off stump when the right-hander left a ball after lunch, Neser claimed the Bulls’ last three wickets on day one.<\/p>\n

He first had a pulling Wes Agar caught at slip, edged off a driving Liam Scott for 44 and also had Jordan Buckingham caught behind.<\/p>\n

While the wickets came late in the innings for Neser, it still won’t have hurt his push to add to his two Tests for Australia.<\/p>\n

Scott Boland is all but certain to replace Pat Cummins for the first Test if Australia’s captain does not recover from a back injury in time.<\/p>\n

But Neser could well be the next option if Cummins does not return for later in the series and one of Australia’s quicks needs resting.<\/p>\n

That situation appears even more serious after fellow-hopeful Sean Abbott split the webbing on his bowling hand while playing for NSW on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

While Neser’s wickets could have Ashes implications, former Test spinner Swepson was the pick of the bowlers for Queensland on day one.<\/p>\n

He took four wickets in South Australia’s collapse from 2-133 to 7-188, including the crucial wicket of Conor McInerny lbw for 60.<\/p>\n

The legspinner also had Jason Sangha well caught by Khawaja close to the ground at slip, before the in-form Jake Lehmann hit him straight to square leg.<\/p>\n

Swepson’s fourth scalp came when Nathan McAndrew drove him on the up to cover, capping a fine day for the Queenslander with figures of 4-50.<\/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 \"Victoria
\n Victoria Men
\n VIC<\/p>\n

1
\n 1
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1.43
\n 0.6
\n 8.03<\/p>\n

2
\n \"NSW
\n NSW Men
\n NSW<\/p>\n

1
\n 1
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1
\n 7<\/p>\n

3
\n \"Queensland
\n Queensland Bulls
\n QLD<\/p>\n

1
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1.73
\n 0.8
\n 3.53<\/p>\n

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

1
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1.31
\n 0.2
\n 2.51<\/p>\n

5
\n \"South
\n South Australia Men
\n SA<\/p>\n

1
\n 0
\n 1
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0.87
\n 0.9
\n 1.77<\/p>\n

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

1
\n 0
\n 1
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1
\n 1<\/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":"Michael Neser has done his hopes of playing an Ashes Test this summer some good, taking four wickets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-217747","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\/217747","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=217747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}