Michael Roberts … in an oldish item left dormant last year ….
For a side to face a target of 427 runs in the fourth innings ofa cricket match and to reach such a total is rare in the history of cricket. Tasmania nearly achieved this difficult task on their home grounds in the match against South Australia. They fell two runs short …. as a flurry of wickets at the end, no doubt encouraged by time running out, dashed their remarkable fourth innings chase.
Let me note here that South Australia is mostly ‘staffed’ by imports from other states: Fraser McGurk, …. Jason Sangha for example –with Jason Sangha from NSW starring on this occasion and being accorded the cap for “Man of the Match”.
Among their useful performers with the ball on this occasion was Wes Agar (a part Sri Lankan Aussie and brother of Ashton Agar) who is a kind-of import from de la Salle College in Melbourne; but is domiicled and settled in the suburb of Kensington in Adelaide.
South Australia 398 for 6 dec (Sangha 151, Hunt 136, Meredith 4-95) and 233 for 9 dec (McInerney 75, Sangha 61, Kuhnemann 4-67) beat Tasmania 203 (Doran 51, Scott 3-30) and 426 (Ward 142, Hope 69, Weatherald 65, Silk 65, Agar 3-91, McAndrew 3-123) by two runs.
