Tait blasts out New South Wales
New South Wales stumbled to a 14-run defeat chasing a mere 168, as Shaun Tait made his presence felt at the top and the bottom of the innings to take 4 for 24 from eight overs
AAP
11-Dec-2004
South Australia 167 (Adcock 62*, Bollinger 4-24) beat New South Wales 153 (Mail 58, Tait 4-29) by 14 runs
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New South Wales stumbled to a 14-run defeat chasing a mere 168, as Shaun Tait made his presence felt at the top and the bottom of the innings to take 4 for 24 from eight overs. South Australia won the rain-curtailed game even though Doug Bollinger had blown away their top order with a hat-trick in the ING Cup encounter at Canberra.
Greg Mail struck 58 and was involved in a number of small partnerships that took NSW close, but once Daniel Cullen trapped him in front, South Australia were well and truly on top. Tait then removed Nathan Bracken and Stuart MacGill, while Mark Cleary dismissed Matthew Nicholson with five balls to go.
Earlier, Nathan Adcock made an unbeaten 62, his highest score in the competition, to provide the South Australian attack something to bowl at in the 40-over-a-side contest. However a lot of Adcock's good work was undone by two farcical run-outs late in the innings as South Australia lost 4 for 15 to dash any hopes of posting a score around 200.
Bollinger had thrived with the new ball in his first start of the summer for the Blues after Brad Haddin, the New South Wales captain, chose to bowl in humid conditions. Bollinger and Bracken troubled Greg Blewett and Mark Cosgrove (8) right from the start, and it wasn't long before Bollinger had a ball crashing through Cosgrove's defence.
Bollinger started the procession with the final ball of his fourth over, knocking back Ben Cameron's middle stump, and then started his fifth over in sensational fashion. Jack Smith played inside a ball which held its line to crash into the off stump, leaving Bollinger on the verge of a hat-trick. His next ball was an attempted yorker which turned into a knee-high full toss. It hit an unsighted Callum Ferguson on the pads, but well outside the line of off stump. The fielders went up and Darren Goodger, the umpire officiating in his first ING Cup game, upheld the appeal.
Bollinger's early thunderbolts left South Australia at 4 for 20, before Adcock marched to the crease and, despite some streaky shots, started rebuilding the innings first with Blewett (18), and then Graham Manou (39).