{"id":328826,"date":"2025-12-05T06:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328826\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:15:08","slug":"axed-australian-opener-sam-konstas-lands-drought-breaking-century-for-new-south-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328826\/","title":{"rendered":"Axed Australian opener Sam Konstas lands drought-breaking century for New South Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Axed Australia opener Sam Konstas has found form, scoring a confidence-boosting century for NSW in the Sheffield Shield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Enduring a difficult period after his incredible Test debut last Boxing Day, the 20-year-old reached three figures just before tea on day one of the Blues&#8217; match against Queensland at the SCG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It was Konstas&#8217; fourth first-class ton, and his first in the Shield since making twin centuries against South Australia in October 2024, before forcing his way into Australia&#8217;s XI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The aggressive right-hander made a century for Australia A against India A in September, but that came on a flat pitch in Lucknow when just 13 wickets fell across four days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">After bursting onto the international stage against India last summer as a teenager, Konstas suffered a disastrous tour of the Caribbean that led to him being dropped for the Ashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In three Tests against the West Indies, Konstas scored just 50 runs at an average of 8.33.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/programs\/abc-sport-daily\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Sport Daily podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that&#8217;s making headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Konstas (107 not out) and fellow former Australia batter Kurtis Patterson (49no) helped NSW get to the tea break at 1-221.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He will need to pile on runs to be in consideration for an Australian call-up due to Jake Weatherald and Travis Head just starting their opening combination in the second innings in Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Second-placed Queensland are missing key quicks Michael Neser, who is playing his third Test for Australia, and Xavier Bartlett (Australia A duties).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Konstas&#8217; opening partner, Matthew Gilkes, was dismissed for 55 by Bulls veteran Gurinder Sandhu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Axed Australia opener Sam Konstas has found form, scoring a confidence-boosting century for NSW in the Sheffield Shield.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,17069,184255,116221,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-328826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sam-konstas","12":"tag-sam-konstas-century","13":"tag-sheffield-shield","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328826","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=328826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}