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SA down NSW in Sheffield Shield

South Australia beat NSW by two wickets in the Sheffield Shield match in Adelaide.

South Australian Chadd Sayers enhanced his status as the nation's next Test bowler in a nerve-jangling two-wicket Sheffield Shield triumph against NSW.

Set just 121 to win, the Redbacks reached their target with eight wickets down, largely thanks to Jake Lehmann's decisive 47 not out.

Sayers earlier on Wednesday took a five-wicket haul to shift momentum in the Adelaide Oval clash before SA's batsmen wobbled to victory inside three days.

Sayers tore through the Blues' batting line-up as the visitors crashed to 87 all out - their lowest Shield score in Adelaide.

Sayers, who was 12th man for Australia's most recent Test match, took 5-27 as he cleaned up after early strikes by pace partner Kane Richardson, who claimed 3-23.

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Richardson reduced the visitors to 4-22, his victims including Test batsman Nic Maddinson for a duck and ex-Test gloveman Peter Nevill for one.

NSW's experienced opener Ed Cowan scratched out a top-score of 45 before Sayers took centre stage.

Sayers bowled Cowan around his legs, then cleaned up Ryan Gibson next ball - bowled for a golden duck.

Sayers was denied a hat-trick but later snared two more wickets to complete his 11th five-wicket haul in a first-class innings.

SA's chase of the small total began aggressively but Kelvin Smith (12), Jake Weatherald (17) and Callum Ferguson (12) fell cheaply to NSW's debutant paceman Charlie Stobo (4-46).

Sam Raphael (4) was run out and when Tom Cooper was dismissed for one, the Redbacks were teetering at 5-49.

But 24-year-old Lehmann belied his inexperience to shepherd the lower order to the winning target.

SA bank a third win of the Shield season and will enter the Christmas break in second spot on the ladder behind pacesetters Victoria.


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