Southern Redbacks
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| Captain: |
 Travis Head
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| Coach: |
Jamie Siddons
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| Colours: | Red White & Black |
| Founded: | 1887 |
| Home ground: | Adelaide Oval |
| Capacity: | 50,000 |
| First-class debut: |
Tasmania in 1887 at Adelaide Oval |
| Sheffield Shield wins: | 13: (1894, 1910, 1913, 1927, 1936, 1939, 1953, 1964, 1969, 1971, 1976, 1982, 1996) |
| One Day Cup wins: | 3 (1984, 1987, 2012) |
| Big Bash wins: | 1 (2011) |
| Official website: | West End Redbacks |
The South Australia cricket team, named West End Redbacks, nicknamed "the Southern Redbacks", is an Australian first class cricket team based in Adelaide, South Australia. The Redbacks play their home matches at Adelaide Oval and are the state cricket team for South Australia, representing the state in the Sheffield Shield competition and the limited overs Ryobi One Day Cup. Their Ryobi One Day Cup uniform features a red body with black sleeves. They are known as the West End Redbacks due to a sponsorship agreement with West End. The Redbacks formerly competed in the now-defunct KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, but were succeeded by the Adelaide Strikers in 2011 because this league was replaced with the Big Bash League.
South Australia came into the 2015/2016 Matador Cup with a new coach named Jamie Siddons. The Redbacks started the 50,50 cup well with a six wicket win over Western Australia. Skipper Travis Head scored 202 and Callum Ferguson 112 (not out). The Redbacks played the next 3 matches were against New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania. The Redbacks won 2 out 3 of those games, losing one game to New South Wales.
The next game was against arch-rivals the Victoria Bushrangers. South Australia batted first, making 198 runs thanks to a half century from Jake Lehmann and a 3 wicket haul to Kane Richardson. The next match was against Cricket Australia academy side where the Redbacks put 244 on the board courtesy of a 113 run partnership between Tom cooper (83) and Jake Lehmann (32). The Redbacks bowled well knocking the Academy side out for 168 thanks to the spin twins of Tom Andrew and Adam Zampa, whom they picked up 8 wickets.
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