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Uneven season match tally for Sheffield Shield sides?
Tuesday, 1 February 2022.
Some teams could finish Cricket Australia's (CA) Sheffield Shield first class season having played more games than others, according to an article by Louis Cameron that was posted on CA’s web site news feed on Tuesday. Cameron writes that schedules for CA’s four- and one-day men's domestic competitions post the mid-season break "are still yet to be confirmed despite the expected recommencement of the Shield competition next week".
According to the article, CA "is close" to finalising the remaining schedule and "it is believed some states may end up playing eight Shield games while others will only play seven, the minimum required for a full season to be constituted, with every team set to play each other at least once”. Points to decide the top two teams to play in the Shield final would need to be averaged out on a pro-rata basis in the event some sides play extra games.
Western Australia, Tasmania, Queensland and South Australia all played five Shield games before the mid-season break, and Victoria and NSW played just three – all of the latter only against each other – due to the fact they were essentially cut off from the rest of the country by Covid state border closures until December. The pre-Christmas, 50-over format, One Day Cup schedule was also uneven, with teams playing between two and five games each.
Cameron says that the re-jigged schedule will allow some Test squad members not picked in Australia's Twenty20 International squad to play at least one Shield game before departing for the Test series in Pakistan later this month.
SHEFFIELD SHIELD 2021/22 TABLE
P | W | L | D | A | BatBP | BowBP | Adj | Pts | |||
1 | Western Australia | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5.04 | 4.2 | 0 | 22.24 | |
2 | Queensland | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.47 | 4.3 | 0 | 20.77 | |
3 | Tasmania | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.68 | 3.4 | 0 | 20.08 | |
4 | Victoria | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.66 | 3 | 0 | 17.66 | |
5 | South Australia | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2.92 | 3.2 | 0 | 9.12 | |
6 | New South Wales | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.33 | 2.6 | 0 | 3.93 |
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Cricket is class ridden is the main argument in the book and has led to todays state of the game and its current problems.
Doesn’t everyone go to one’s own boarding school where one is introduced to cricket by one’s games master ? Some chums once informed one when one was frequenting one’s private club some poor fellows have to go to state school education where those rotters in charge from a previous generation sold off all the playing fields. These poor fellows are forced, instead, to play that awful game for ruffians called association football.
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