The 1939–40 Sheffield Shield season was the 44th season of the

Sheffield Shield The Sheffield Shield (currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Marsh Sheffield Shield) is the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. The tournament is contested between teams from the six states of Australia. Sheffield Sh ...

, 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 st ...

competition of Australia.

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won the championship. During the match between Queensland and Victoria, in January 1940, Victorian openers

Ian Lee Ian Somerville Lee (24 March 1914 – 14 April 1976) was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria mostly during the 1930s. Lee batted in the top order, often opening the innings. He scored seven first-class hundreds for Vi ...

and

Ben Barnett Benjamin Arthur Barnett (23 March 1908 – 29 June 1979) was an Australian cricketer who played in four Tests in 1938. Life and career Barnett was educated at Scotch College in Melbourne. One of six siblings, he played cricket for Hawthorn- ...

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 Sir Donald George Bradman, (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman's career Test cricket, Test batting average (c ...

: 1062

Most Wickets

Bill O'Reilly: 52

References

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