{"id":857891,"date":"2026-03-29T09:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/857891\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:08:40","slug":"south-australia-claims-late-wickets-against-victoria-on-day-four-of-sheffield-shield-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/857891\/","title":{"rendered":"South Australia claims late wickets against Victoria on day four of Sheffield Shield final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">South Australia struck twice late on day four to snatch the momentum from Victoria in the Sheffield Shield final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Set 196 to win its first Shield title since the 2018\/19 season, Victoria was 5-102 at stumps on Sunday at Melbourne&#8217;s Junction Oval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Nightwatchmen Todd Murphy and Mitch Perry were yet to score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria had recovered from a shaky start to be 3-102 close to stumps when it lost crucial wickets in successive overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Henry Thornton had Peter Handscomb caught behind for 28, ending a 67-run stand between the former Test batter and Marcus Harris, which looked as though it could decide the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Harris was then caught by Ben Manenti at second slip off Liam Scott for 35, leaving Victoria in strife again at 5-102.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Earlier, a quick kill looked possible for Victoria when Scott Boland was bowling for a hat-trick and South Australia had slumped to 7-122 \u2014 only 59 runs ahead \u2014 after resuming at 5-94.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alex Carey raises his bat\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/100e47482962209eb7cd001d1a9ffb19.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Alex Carey hit 103 to rescue South Australia in its second innings. (Getty Images: Robert Cianflone)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">But Alex Carey and Nathan McAndrew fought back to ensure the final would go into day five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">They put on 105 for the eighth wicket before McAndrew was dismissed for 60, while Carey was the last out for 103 as South Australia reached 258.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Carey hit six fours and a six in his commanding 168-ball knock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">McAndrew continued his heroics at the start of Victoria&#8217;s run chase, claiming wickets in successive overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The home side was in early strife at 3-35, before Handscomb and Harris combined for their significant partnership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">South Australia must win the to successfully defend its title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\"><strong>AAP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australia struck twice late on day four to snatch the momentum from Victoria in the Sheffield Shield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8817],"tags":[50074,748,25910,1406,393,12182,4884,11607,94616,1620,159506,18855,93,16,15,22599],"class_list":["post-857891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sheffield","tag-abc-sport","tag-britain","tag-commentary","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-final","tag-great-britain","tag-live-score","tag-scorecard","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffield-shield","tag-south-australia","tag-sport","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-victoria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116311681314990229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}