{"id":922754,"date":"2026-10-10T06:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T06:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/922754\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T06:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T06:56:10","slug":"sheffield-shield-defending-champion-south-australia-starts-defence-with-innings-win-over-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/922754\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Shield defending champion South Australia starts defence with innings win over Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">South Australia has started its Sheffield Shield campaign in the same way it ended the last one, beating Victoria at Junction Oval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The two-time defending champions wrapped up their dominating start today, beating the home side by an innings and 40 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Fittingly, debutant Noah McFadyen took the last wicket of the game when he had David Moody caught and bowled, after top-scoring with 134 in SA&#8217;s innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">McFadyen had hit two sixes to go from 88 to 100, finished with 16 fours and five maximums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 23-year-old all-rounder had match figures of 3-65, including Moody&#8217;s wicket to clinch the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Resuming at 7-175 and needing another 89 to bat again, Victoria was dismissed for 224.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria made 244 in its first innings and SA took the game away from them with 508.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Fergus O&#8217;Neill top-scored in Victoria&#8217;s second innings with 62, while Nathan McAndrew and Henry Thornton took three wickets apiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AAP\/ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australia has started its Sheffield Shield campaign in the same way it ended the last one, beating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,740,490330,116221,1124,588,85,660,8935],"class_list":["post-922754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-noah-mcfadyen","tag-sheffield-shield","tag-south-australia","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-victoria","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922754","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=922754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}