Queensland 112 for 7 (Buckingham 3-36) path South Australia 132 (Lehmann 52, Carey 49, Steketee 3-50) by 20 runs
Bowlers held sway on a chaotic 17-wicket first day of the Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide Oval. On a decidedly troublesome green-tinged pitch, the ball reigned supreme as the house facet have been routed for 132 and Queensland struggled to 112 for 7, with out-of-form Test No.3 Marnus Labuschagne top-scoring with a 112-ball 38 in his first Shield match as captain.
After a disappointing Test summer time when his kind got here underneath the microscope, Labuschange defended for his life in opposition to the Redbacks in his solely Shield match earlier than the tour of New Zealand.
Like most batters on day one, Labuschange regarded shaky and survived a number of scares throughout his battling keep on the crease. He fell to Nathan McAndrew late within the day as South Australia closed in on an unlikely first-innings lead.
Opener Matt Renshaw endured one other failure in his final match earlier than occurring the New Zealand tour as a spare batter.
Dismissed for two in each innings in opposition to Tasmania earlier in February, Renshaw was out for 8, caught off the surface edge by Australian wicketkeeper Alex Carey off Jordan Buckingham.
Renshaw’s finest rating from his previous 12 innings in first-class cricket, home one-dayers and T20s is the 40 he made in final month’s BBL closing.
The day began because it completed – with wickets tumbling. After profitable the toss, South Australia have been rapidly on the ropes at 0 for 3 within the fourth over.
In-form Queensland fast Xavier Bartlett carried his glowing kind from the latest ODI collection in opposition to the West Indies into the Shield, dismissing maverick opener Jake Fraser-McGurk and Nathan McSweeney.
But Carey and captain Jake Lehmann saved the Redbacks from full embarrassment, placing on an important 64-run fourth-wicket stand. Lehmann and Carey have been the one South Australian batters to achieve double figures within the hosts’ 40.3 over innings.
In reply, Queensland stumbled to 13 for 3 and 77 for five earlier than mounting some late resistance however once more misplaced wickets in the direction of the shut.
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