Australia off-spinner Jason Krejza has made a successful comeback from injury after putting in a solid performance for Tasmania against South Australia in the Ford Ranger Cup game at Adelaide Oval on Wednesday.
The 25-year-old was surprisingly the seventh Tigers bowler used during the Redbacks' run chase, coming into the attack at the 22-over mark.
Later in the match he bowled Callum Ferguson for 52 to give his side some hope of victory and finished with figures of 1-45 off seven overs.
During Tasmania's innings he made a quick-fire 20 runs of 12 deliveries.
While his team suffered a six-wicket loss, the New South Wales-born bowler was pleased the ankle injury, which ruled him out of the Adelaide Test against New Zealand, didn't cause him any problems.
"It was good to get out there and test the ankle out, it was perfect, it's 100 percent so there's no issue with it whatsoever," he said.
"It was always the confidence of getting on that ankle and bowling well so that's perfect, so now I can get into the nets and bowl lots of balls."
"It would've been a good challenge to get out there a little bit earlier but that's how the game panned out and I just bowled how I was told."
The Tigers also used Xavier Doherty and Daniel Marsh as spin options.
"We thought there was going to be a little more turn but it didn't ... but they (the Redbacks) played beautifully," Krejza said.
Marsh said he was pleased to see Krejza back on the field for Tasmania. The Tigers skipper said the off-spinner's game had definitely gone up a level in a short period of time.
"We've noticed a lot of improvement with his bowling, certainly his line, his alignment with his bowling and he's a big spinner ... he's great to have around the team and he showed he's a very clean striker of the cricket ball," Marsh said.
"He probably tended to get the ball a bit down leg side at times but now he's certainly outside the batsmen's off stump, getting him driving against the spin which you saw in India."
"He's a real weapon for us, he's a threatening bowler, he's probably going to go for runs at times but he's always attacking which is great."
"He's still learning there's no doubt about that, the more time he spends in the Australian set-up the better he's going to get."