da imperador bet： Queensland will go into Friday’s Interstate Cup Final against Victoria raring to go following their56 run victory at Allan Border Field over South Australia
Lawrie Colliver12-Mar-2000Queensland will go into Friday’s Interstate Cup Final against Victoria raring to go following their56 run victory at Allan Border Field over South Australia.In what was effectively a three day match, both sides whould be congratulated for gaining a result, butI suppose Darren Lehmann should receive the majority of the plaudits for declaring 115 runs behind onthe first innings yesterday. The gesture opened up a game and also gave his team a chance of winninga match that could well have petered out to a draw.The South Australians had their chances to win as wellafter they were set 274 to win in two sessions, when they reached 3/151 with still enough time remainingto force a win. At that moment, innings backboneShane Deitz edged Matthew Anderson through to the keeper after making 85 and from there the Southernerssubsided to lose in all 7/66 to be out for 217. Andy Bichel did the early damage getting mainstays DavidFitzgerald (3) and Darren Lehmann (13) to complete the match with six wickets and Anderson’s other twovictims were Jeff Vaughan (56) and Bradley Young (23) as he finished with 3/79 from twenty overs.Earlier in the day, Jimmy Maher found form to make an unbeaten century and set the eventual target of 274as Queensland declared at lunch. However at the start a couple of run outs and two wickets to Paul Wilson (2/16)had Queensland at 5/69 in strife in the first session. Wade Seccombe joined the little leftie and alleviatedthe situation with an unbeaten 30, in an unbroken stand of 89 in 70 minutes.