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All out for 10

- Cricket

It’s never a good sign when extras are the top score.

And so it proved for the South Australia women’s side who have been bowled out for just 10 in a humiliatin­g defeat on day two of the National Indigenous Cricket Championsh­ips at Alice Springs.

Ten of the South Australia batters were dismissed without scoring as New South Wales ripped through the fragile batting lineup.

Extras top-scored with six and the only other four runs South Australia could muster came from opener Febi Mansell.

The contest was scheduled to be a T20 match but lasted only 79 balls.

South Australia’s innings was over in 10.2 overs.

Mansell survived 33 balls and 36 minutes at the crease.

Her 10 team-mates only managed to face 28 balls between them.

New South Wales bowler Roxsanne Van-Veen finished with the extraordin­ary figures of two overs, one maiden, five wickets for one run.

The one run she did concede was from a wide.

In response, New South Wales took just 17 balls to reach a match-winning total of 11.

Mansell might have been a part of the embarrassi­ng defeat but she could at least take some consolatio­n from being top scorer with the bat and picking up both New South Wales wickets to fall in the short run chase.

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