South Australia's teenage legspinner Lloyd Pope has taken seven wickets to help bowl Queensland out for 231 on day one of the Sheffield Shield match in Adelaide.
The 18-year-old Pope took 7-87 in just his second first-class game, becoming the youngest cricketer to take seven wickets in a Shield innings.
Lloyd Pope is congratulated.Credit:AAP
Three of Pope's victims on Thursday fell to sharp-spinning wrong'uns and he was also on a hat-trick, only to be denied the feat.
Test hopeful Joe Burns top-scored with 64 before becoming one of Pope's victims, adjudged lbw to a googly.
The red-headed tweaker also trapped Jack Wildermuth (38) lbw with another superb wrong'un and bowled Michael Neser (13) with the same style of delivery.
Queensland's Test prospects Matthew Renshaw and Marnus Labuschagne both fell for three, while SA batsman Callum Ferguson was ruled out of the match because of a calf injury.
Ferguson might also miss the following round of Shield fixtures starting next week in a blow to his chances to push for selection in the Test series against India starting in December.
Renshaw, in his first Shield game of the season after recovering from concussion, and Labuschagne were both dismissed by SA quick Joe Mennie, who took 2-35.
Renshaw missed an attempted drive to a fullish ball which hit off stump, while Labuschagne was out on his ninth ball, edging a Mennie delivery to first slip.
Redbacks paceman Chadd Sayers (1-45) soon trapped Charlie Hemphrey lbw for four to reduce the Bulls to 3-29 inside 11 overs.
Pope then took centre stage, dismissing Sam Heazlett (18), caught behind down the leg side, with his first ball.
The leggie, who turns 19 on December 1, then added Burns, Wildermuth, Neser, Mitchell Swepson (golden duck), Jimmy Peirson (42) and Brendan Doggett (18) to his list of victims.
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