Sayers emerges as Ashes bolter

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Chadd Sayers ... emerges as an Ashes bolter. Source:News Limited

NSW quicks Trent Copeland and Doug Bollinger claimed quick wickets as South Australia lost their early grip of the Sheffield Shield match in Adelaide.

The Redbacks bowled NSW out for 157 but in reply wobbled to 5-101 at stumps on Tuesday's opening day.

Copeland (3-22 from 14 overs) and Bollinger (2-32) triggered a South Australian collapse of five wickets for 14 runs.

Copeland grabbed the first three scalps and Bollinger then claimed victims in consecutive balls.

Bollinger's hat-trick attempt was a bouncer which cracked into the helmet of SA's Jake Brown, leaving the batsman dazed but not dismissed.

Earlier, SA's in-form paceman Chadd Sayers destroyed the Blues' batting line-up.

Sayers, the Shield's leading wicket-taker this season with 35 victims, claimed 5-54 from 20 overs including the initial four wickets, as NSW crashed to 4-33.

Sayers, who this season has played eight of his 10 first-class games, refuses to rate himself an outside chance for Australia's Ashes tour of England this winter.

"If you keep performing, then your name gets thrown up there. If that does happen, then I will grab it with both hands,'' Sayers said.

"I'm not thinking that far forward ... I will just keep performing for the Redbacks and you never know what happens.''

Sayers stands only 1.80 metres tall, or 5'9 in old-speak.

He's not overly quick, bowling around the 130-135kmph mark.

But he can swing a ball, mainly outswing. And he can jag it both ways off the pitch.

And Sayers has uncanny accuracy, operating with a simple mantra of making the batsman play at each ball.

"When you're asking a batsman to make a decision 100 per cent of the time, the odds are in your favour,'' he said.

"Not many people around Australia at the moment can play outswing bowling so if you can swing the ball, you're in the game.''

His pace partner Joe Mennie took 4-39 from 20 overs, with only Blues veteran Brad Haddin playing an innings of substance.

Haddin top-scored with 56 but opener David Dawson (26) and Copeland (26) were the only other batsmen to reach double figures.

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