Cricket battlers roar back to life

Having received simply three of their earlier 36 video games over the previous 5 seasons, the Redbacks scored back-to-back wins for the primary time for the reason that 2019/20 season, after they received solely these two video games, and a primary Adelaide Oval win since 2020.

In these previous 5 season, SA has completed on the underside of the Shield desk 4 occasions in a disastrous interval for the state, which included two winless seasons, after which former Test quick bowler Jason Gillespie took over as coach.

Without captain Travis Head and star keeper Alex Carey, Daniel Drew scored an unbeaten double-century SA’s the primary innings, Nathan McSweeney made 100 within the second and the hometown bowling assault twice rolled the guests to safe the 164 run win.

“It’s massive for us, we know we’ve been in a struggling position for the last couple of years,” Wes Agar, who took 5 wickets for the match, stated after the win.

“We knew we have talent and it was going to take time and to start seeing the change and seeing us get in to winning positions and then win games is awesome for us. It gives us heaps of confidence.”

An up-tempo shot at taking over the unlikely chase for 468 to win from WA was throughout when Nathan McAndrew took two of his seven match wickets to take away each middle-order sluggers Josh Inglis and Marcus Stoinis.

Spurred on by the well-known native plum rooster served for lunch, the Redbacks then went by way of the WA tail as Drew took the ultimate catch to safe the victory and his staff a transfer into third spot on the Shield desk.

“So exciting. We had a great chat on Thursday around what we wanted to get out of the second half of the season and how we wanted to approach it,” Agar stated.

“To put the performance on the board is so pleasing. We were driving the game the whole way.”

The wins may preserve coming for the Redbacks with Big Bash sensation Spencer Johnson set to hitch the staff for a one-day conflict with WA on Wednesday.