{"id":236826,"date":"2025-10-31T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236826\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:48:09","slug":"sam-konstas-continues-ashes-preparation-with-sheffield-shield-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236826\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Konstas continues Ashes preparation with Sheffield Shield 40"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia opener Sam Konstas made 40 as New South Wales drew with Queensland<\/a> in the Sheffield Shield.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old was the only NSW wicket to fall, caught by Hayden Kerr to become debutant Samuel Skelly’s first professional scalp, as his side closed the rain-affected match on 79-1 in their second innings.<\/p>\n

Konstas, who was bowled for 10 on his first trip to the crease, made scores of 53, zero, 14 and four in his previous Shield matches this season.<\/p>\n

Steven Smith, who scored 118 in New South Wales’ first outing, was not afforded another opportunity to bat after Queensland declared their first innings on 347-8 on day four at The Gabba.<\/p>\n

In Melbourne, Test prospect Fergus O’Neill took 4-54 as Victoria bowled Tasmania out for 210<\/a> to win by 144 runs.<\/p>\n

O’Neill, who had a spell with Nottinghamshire this summer and was second on last season’s Shield wicket-taking charts, has been touted as next in line should another Australia seamer fall to injury.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old had already dismissed Jake Weatherald, last season’s top run-scorer and one of numerous domestic players fighting for a spot at the top of the Australia order, for 12 late on day three.<\/p>\n

O’Neill returned on the final day to dispatch Weatherald’s fellow opener Caleb Jewell, before going on to remove Nikhil Chaudhary and Jake Doran as Tasmania were unable to chase 355.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile opener Cameron Bancroft followed his century in the first innings with 58 in the second as Western Australia drew with South Australia<\/a> in Perth.<\/p>\n

Chasing an unlikely 303 after their opponents declared on 394-8, Bancroft’s side were 195-6 when the players shook hands.<\/p>\n

There is one more round of Sheffield Shield matches prior to the first Ashes Test in Perth on Friday, 21 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia opener Sam Konstas made 40 as New South Wales drew with Queensland in the Sheffield Shield. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-236826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}