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Pope sidelined as SA turn to new spinner – cricket.com.au
Redbacks blood youngster as the leg-spinner continues to work on his game after mixed start to the season
Lloyd Pope began what loomed as a breakthrough summer as the sole specialist spinner in South Australia’s squad, and re-wrote history on the opening day of the Marsh Sheffield Shield season.
Five matches later, as the Redbacks wage battle with a near-Test strength New South Wales at Adelaide Oval, Pope finds himself eyeing a holiday weekend without a cricket commitment of any type to occupy his time.
After becoming the first bowler in 50 years to snare a five-wicket haul on the opening day of the…
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