The 1947–48 Sheffield Shield season was the 46th season of the
Sheffield Shield, the domestic
first-class cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
competition of Australia.
Western Australia won the championship on their debut season despite the fact that they only played four matches. The title was awarded to them based on their average.
Table
Statistics
Most runs
Phil Ridings 649
Most wickets
Geff Noblet 35
References
Further reading
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Max Bonnell
Maxwell Thomas Bennett Bonnell (born 1962) is an Australian lawyer and cricket historian.
Career
Max Bonnell attended Trinity Grammar School in Sydney (winning the Lawrence Campbell Oratory Competition in 1979) before studying Arts and Law at t ...
and Andrew Sproul, ''Black Swan Summer: The Improbable Story of Western Australia's First Sheffield Shield'' (2022)
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