Baseball in Australia Australia would receive an automatic berth in the Little League World Series starting in 2013. Baseball is considered traditionally a summer sport, meaning such that it will start in spring and end in autumn, however, this has changed many times in Australia for different reasons. One of these reasons is because baseball in Australia was originally considered a sport for cricketers in the off-season, but as baseball became more popular as a standalone sport it was played more often in summer. The Claxton Shield was traditionally played in the Australian winter so Sheffield Shield players could participate. However, the Australian
The Shield (professional wrestling) to the point that Punk requested to lose the match, which was rejected. Going into 2014, Punk's taunts increased tension between The Shield members and Reigns emerged as the only Shield member to defeat Punk in a singles match on the January 6 episode of "Raw", albeit with a distraction from Ambrose. All three members of The Shield competed in the 2014 Royal Rumble match, during which Ambrose tried to eliminate Reigns, who retaliated by eliminating both Ambrose and Rollins. Reigns eventually finished as runner-up in the match while setting a new record for most eliminations in a single Royal