Lehmann glued to son's Shield heroics

Australia coach Darren Lehmann admitted he was glued to the live stream of South Australia’s rousing two-wicket Sheffield Shield victory over NSW with his son Jake hitting the winning runs.

The younger Lehmann struck a match-winning 47 not out with wickets tumbling around him to guide the hosts over the line in the Adelaide Oval thriller.

And his dad didn’t miss a ball of his knock in the day-night clash, even though his attention should have been elsewhere.

“I was at a (Cricket Australia) board dinner and I was watching that rather than talking to the board,” the proud South Australian conceded on Thursday.

"I don’t know how that went down.

“It was good to see him do well – that’s a Dad comment. (I’m) quite nervous watching him, I had more interest in that than what was going on at the table."

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While Jake Lehmann doesn’t immediately appear to be in contention for the national side, he’s beginning to turn heads on the domestic scene.

His unbeaten 47 may not have been the mammoth total national selectors have demanded from the next crop of young batsmen but the 24-year-old nonetheless defied intense pressure to get South Australia home on day which saw 17 wickets fall.

With a healthy first-class average of 44.40, Lehmann already has five centuries to his name from 21 matches in the game’s longest format, the latest, an unbeaten 129, coming in the Redbacks’ an innings-and-94-run win over Tasmania last month.

The left-hander followed in his father’s footsteps earlier this year when he represented Yorkshire in a brief stint in England under their then-coach Jason Gillespie.

But Darren Lehmann, who doubles as a member of the four-man national selection panel, has insisted he plays no part in discussing where his son sits in the pecking order of potential Test batsmen.

"I don't sit in on anything when they (selectors) talk about Jake," Lehmann said last month.

"I don't know what they're saying about Jake.

"Not involved, and I'd be that nervous anyway I probably wouldn't be coach, I'd probably just go to the bar."

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