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1939–40 Sheffield Shield Season
The 1939–40 Sheffield Shield season was the 44th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket, first-class cricket competition of Australia. New South Wales cricket team, New South Wales won the championship. During the match between Queensland and Victoria, in January 1940, Victorian Opener (cricket), openers Ian Lee (cricketer), Ian Lee and Ben Barnett became the first ones to achieve partnerships of 150 or more, in both innings of a Shield match, when they put on 152 (Lee 90, Barnett 92) and 169 (Lee 93, Barnett 104*). Table Statistics Most Runs Don Bradman: 1062 Most Wickets Bill O'Reilly (cricketer), Bill O'Reilly: 52 References Australian cricket seasons from 1918–19 to 1944–45, Sheffield Shield Domestic cricket competitions in 1939–40, Sheffield Shield Sheffield Shield seasons {{Australian-domestic-cricket-competition-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-class Cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although in practice a team might play only one innings or none at all. The etymology of "first-class cricket" is unknown, but it was used loosely before it acquired official status in 1895, following a meeting of leading English clubs. At a meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in 1947, it was formally defined on a global basis. A significant omission of the ICC ruling was any attempt to define first-class cricket retrospectively. That has left historians, and especially statisticians, with the problem of how to categorise earlier matches, especially those played in Great Britain be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |