{"id":573188,"date":"2026-03-30T01:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573188\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:18:12","slug":"south-australia-bowls-out-victoria-to-win-sheffield-shield-final-alex-carey-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573188\/","title":{"rendered":"South Australia bowls out Victoria to win Sheffield Shield final, Alex Carey stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Australia<\/a> has won the Sheffield Shield<\/a>, bowling out Victoria<\/a> in under an hour on day five to claim back-to-back titles. <\/p>\n

Victoria needed just 82 runs to win coming into day five, but only had three wickets in the shed.<\/p>\n

They ultimately lasted just seven overs, with Henry Thornton taking the final two wickets of the match.<\/p>\n

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\"South<\/p>\n

South Australia celebrates after defeating Victoria during day five of the Sheffield Shield.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

South Australia was sent in to bat on a difficult looking pitch at the Junction Oval, and found themselves in early trouble, making just 198.<\/p>\n

Only captain Nathan McSweeney offered much resistance with the bat, making 52 from 127 balls.<\/p>\n

Victoria then put themselves in a strong position, thanks to some middle-order hitting from Fergus O’Neill (64 off 136) and Will Sutherland (34 off 57), to post 261 in reply.<\/p>\n

Enter Test star Alex Carey, who saved the day for South Australia in the second innings, making 103 and allowing SA to set 258 and take a tricky lead.<\/p>\n

Nathan McAndrew made 60 and survived 144 balls alongside Carey to set up the innings.<\/p>\n

\"Alex<\/p>\n

Alex Carey brings up his ton for South Australia.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

McAndrew would receive man of the match honours for that effort, while also taking six wickets.<\/p>\n

South Australia knew they needed early wickets to have any chance of winnings and it was a pitch that made life difficult against the new ball, giving them a strong chance.<\/p>\n

They ripped through the Victorians on days four and five, with only Marcus Harris (35 off 92) and Peter Handscomb (28 off 60) showing any fight.<\/p>\n

Ollie Peake and Will Sutherland were quickly removed on day five, before O’Neill was bowled by Thornton to wrap things up as celebrations began. <\/p>\n

There was a moment of hesitation as the third umpire checked for a near front-foot no-ball, but it was quickly waved away and the celebrations began. <\/p>\n

\"Jake<\/p>\n

Jake Lehmann and Alex Carey of South Australia with the shield.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“It’s all gone horribly wrong for Victoria today,” former Australian wicket keeper Adam Crosthwaite said on the coverage.<\/p>\n

“South Australia has been brilliant this morning.” <\/p>\n

Scott Boland bowled well for Victoria overall, taking five wickets, while Sutherland took six.<\/p>\n

Thornton and McAndrew took six apiece for South Australia, while Liam Scott finished with five wickets. <\/p>\n

Former Australian bowling star Ryan Harris has also now won successive Sheffield Shields in his first two seasons as coach.<\/p>\n

It’s the first time the state has ever gone back-to-back in the competition’s history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australia has won the Sheffield Shield, bowling out Victoria in under an hour on day five to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-573188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573188","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=573188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}