Australia news

Behrendorff, Sayers out for season

Feb 3, 2015: Fast bowlers Jason Behrendorff and Chadd Sayers have both been ruled out of the remainder of the Sheffield Shield season due to injuries

South Australia v Queensland, Sheffield Shield, Adelaide, 1st day

Stevens ton revives Bulls after Sayers hat-trick

Oct 31, 2014: South Australia fast bowler Chadd Sayers began the season with a top-order hat-trick but Queensland recovered through a maiden century from Nick Stevens

WA v SA, Sheffield Shield, Perth

Sayers bowls South Australia to victory

Nov 9, 2013: Chadd Sayers bowled South Australia to victory over Western Australia with a spell of 3 for 1 from seven overs on the final day in Perth

Australia news

Australia's fast eight for Ashes

Oct 10, 2013: Australia's selectors have identified eight fast bowlers in line for Ashes duty during the summer and told their states to prepare them accordingly

Gloucestershire v Australia A, Bristol, 1st day

Maddinson's rapid ton shows potential and pitfalls

Jun 21, 2013: A rapid hundred from Nic Maddinson showed why he is among the best young batsmen in Australia, but also why he still has a way to go

The Ashes 2013

Who could be Australia's Ashes bolters?

Apr 23, 2013: Australia's selectors will name the Ashes squad on Wednesday. Here, ESPNcricinfo runs the rule over five men from the fringes who might have been considered by John Inverarity's panel

A dark horse in the fast lane

Mar 31, 2013: The Ashes will be decided by the better pace-bowling attack, and Australia have plenty in that department, including the young sensation Chadd Sayers

Australia news

Gurinder Sandhu surprise winner of Steve Waugh Medal

Mar 28, 2013: Gurinder Sandhu's rapid emergence as a pace bowler of substance has been underlined by his surprise plucking of the Steve Waugh Medal as the best New South Wales cricketer for 2012-13

Australia news

Ponting named Sheffield Shield player of the year

Mar 20, 2013: In a reminder of what the Australian team is missing, Ricky Ponting was deservedly named Sheffield Shield player of the year at the state cricket awards in Hobart

New South Wales v South Australia, Sheffield Shield, Sydney, 2nd day

Sayers' five-for keeps contest even

Mar 15, 2013: South Australia's batsmen handed back to New South Wales the fighting chance they had been given by another fine display from Chadd Sayers on day two of the Sheffield Shield match at the SCG

SA v NSW, Sheffield Shield, Adelaide

Redbacks beat NSW, rise to second

Feb 21, 2013: South Australia's first Sheffield Shield victory over New South Wales since 2006 lifted the Redbacks to second on the competition table

SA v NSW, Sheffield Shield, Adelaide

Redbacks glimpse 3-day win over Blues

Feb 20, 2013: South Australia's tail wagged all the the way to a significant first innings lead before Chadd Sayers and Joe Mennie again confounded the New South Wales batsmen

SA v NSW, Sheffield Shield, Adelaide

Blues fight back on 15-wicket day

Feb 19, 2013: Fifteen wickets fell on a day when the ball did just enough to catch the edge, allowing New South Wales to regain ground lost when bowled out for 157 by South Australia

SA v Victoria, Sheffield Shield, Adelaide

Victoria on top despite Hughes ton

Jan 25, 2013: Phillip Hughes kept up the fine form he displayed in the ODI series against Sri Lanka, scoring a century on the second day of South Australia's Sheffield Shield match against Victoria

SA v Victoria, Sheffield Shield, Adelaide

Rogers a century but Hussey out cheaply

Jan 24, 2013: Chris Rogers anchored Victoria's innings before a Chadd Sayers burst with the second new ball pulled South Australia back into the contest

Victoria v SA, Sheffield Shield, MCG

South Australia eye rare MCG victory

Nov 25, 2012: Gary Putland and Chadd Sayers bowled South Australia into a strong position to push for victory on the final day at the MCG, where Victoria went to stumps on the third evening at 6 for 86

WA v SA, Sheffield Shield, Perth

Triffitt keeps Western Australia on top

Nov 14, 2012: Tom Triffitt made his best first-class score as Western Australia set South Australia 355 runs to win at the WACA

Tasmania v SA, Sheffield Shield, Hobart

Head and Christian give Redbacks hope

Nov 2, 2012: South Australia finished the second day in Hobart hoping to end their long drought without a Sheffield Shield win after Daniel Christian and the rookie batsman Travis Head led a solid second-innings batting display

Victoria v South Australia, Sheffield Shield, Melbourne

Bushrangers on top as nineteen wickets tumble

Feb 14, 2012: Nineteen wickets fell on day two of a frantic Sheffield Shield match between Victoria and South Australia at the MCG

Australian news

South Australia sign Doropoulos

Jun 30, 2011: Theo Doropoulos, the former Western Australia allrounder, has emerged as the big winner early in Darren Berry's tenure at South Australia after earning a state contract with the Redbacks