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Sheffield Shield

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Sheffield Shield
n
(Team Sports / Cricket) (in Australia) the former name for the trophy of the annual interstate cricket competition
[named after Lord Sheffield, sponsor of a visiting English side in 1891-92, who inaugurated the Sheffield Shield competition in 1892]


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Much of Australia's line-up for Thursday's match against the West Indies was rested from last week's Sheffield Shield games.
AUSTRALIA vice-captain Michael Clarke has declared himself a certain starter for next week's first Test against the West Indies after his suspect back came through a solid two-day workload in NSW's Sheffield Shield clash with Tasmania.
My personal experience nearly 15 years ago with night Sheffield Shield cricket was that it struggled because of the very different playing conditions between day and night.
 
 
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