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Steve Larkin

Redbacks tied up in a Beau as Tassie claims Shield win

Tasmania is celebrating an eight-wicket win against South Australia in the Sheffield Shield. (Matt Turner/AAP PHOTOS)

Tasmanian Beau Webster's all-round excellence has been instrumental in his side's seven-wicket Sheffield Shield win against South Australia.

Webster took a career-best 4-32 as the Redbacks folded for just 157 in their second innings at Adelaide's Karen Rolton Oval on Thursday.

The meagre total left Tasmania needing 84 runs to win, achieved just after tea on day three.

SA posted 307 in their first innings and in reply Webster made 62 as the visitors compiled 381.

The Redbacks resumed in trouble on day three at 3-47, and any hope of setting the Tasmanians a challenging target vanished early.

Captain Jake Lehmann was soon out for eight, trapped lbw by paceman Gabe Bell (3-58).

And a brief Jake Fraser-McGurk cameo of 29 from 20 balls ended when the ex-Victorian shouldered arms to a Lawrence Neil-Smith (3-44) ball, which slid off the bat-face to his stumps.

Webster, 29, once a potential AFL draftee from the Tassie Mariners who opted for cricket, soon captured the big wicket of Nathan McSweeney.

Tasmanian cricketer Beau Webster.
Beau Webster has helped Tasmania to a seven-wicket Sheffield Shield win against South Australia.

McSweeney had anchored SA's innings, striking eight fours in making 48 from 97 balls, but edged to wicketkeeper Matthew Wade.

Webster's impact heightened in the next over when, at second slip, he grasped a sharp catch, diving low and forward, to dismiss Harry Nielsen (10) as Bell struck again.

Webster then mopped up the SA tail, taking the last three wickets for his best bowling figures in 72 first-class matches.

In the run chase, Tasmanian opener Caleb Jewell, after making 87 in the first dig, was trapped lbw for a second-ball duck by paceman Wes Agar (1-19).

First-innings centurion Charlie Wakim (25) and ex-Redback Jake Weatherald (29) both fell to SA quick Jordan Buckingham (2-23).

Captain Jordan Silk was unbeaten on 24 when the Tasmanians secured a comprehensive win to open their Shield campaign.

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