{"id":305522,"date":"2025-11-24T12:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305522\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:16:14","slug":"mcsweeney-leads-south-australia-to-big-lead-over-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305522\/","title":{"rendered":"McSweeney leads South Australia to big lead over WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">South Australia captain Nathan McSweeney has top-scored to put his side in position to push for victory on the final day of the Sheffield Shield clash against Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McSweeney (68) and Henry Hunt (58) combined for an 88-run stand for the second wicket on Monday as the hosts chase a second consecutive Shield win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">South Australia had resumed at 1-100 after bowling WA out for 188 on the second day after day one was washed out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The defending Shield champions were bowled out for 333 at Adelaide Oval in the pink-ball day-night clash and at stumps on day three the visitors were 2-85, still trailing by 60 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">South Australia paceman Jordan Buckingham (2-26) was a menace under lights and took the key wicket of opener Cameron Bancroft for 41.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hunt continued an impressive season that has returned 385 runs at an average of 42.77.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was trapped in front by a ball that seamed in from Cameron Gannon (2-64) who was rewarded for attacking the stumps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McSweeney, who scored a century against WA earlier in the season, was the rock who kept the innings together.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"West Australian spinner Corey Rocchiccioli.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b98396cf768a68d9f37f03f29e859222.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>West Australian spinner Corey Rocchiccioli took his Shield wickets tally to 17 for the season. (Richard Wainwright\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Western Australia offspinner Corey Rocchiccioli continued the form that has him vying with Todd Murphy to be the next in line when Test star Nathan Lyon retires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rocchiccioli has a penchant for breaking partnerships by dismissing the key men in the opposition and it was no different when he cleaned up McSweeney with a ripper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The South Australia skipper went back to a vicious offspinner that also skidded through with added pace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Extra bounce and spin from Rocchiccioli had earlier accounted for Jason Sangha (26).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 28-year-old has 17 wickets for the summer after claiming 38 last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was that form which won Rocchiccioli a place in the Australia A side for the India A tour to Lucknow where he took six wickets in three innings \u00a0in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Most of the South Australia batters made starts, including wicketkeeper Harry Nielsen (44).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australia captain Nathan McSweeney has top-scored to put his side in position to push for victory on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,163573,165113,89807,18779,44,116221,1124,3439],"class_list":{"0":"post-305522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cameron-bancroft","11":"tag-corey-rocchiccioli","12":"tag-henry-hunt","13":"tag-nathan-mcsweeney","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sheffield-shield","16":"tag-south-australia","17":"tag-western-australia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305522","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=305522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}