2016–17 Sheffield Shield season 2016–17 Sheffield Shield season The 2016–17 Sheffield Shield season was the 115th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition in Australia. It started on 25 October 2016 and finished on 30 March 2017. There was a break between December and January for the Big Bash League. The first round of matches were played as day/night games in preparation for Australia's day/night Test match against Pakistan on 15 December 2016. A second day/night round of fixtures took place in round five of the tournament. Victoria qualified for the final after their 8 wicket win against Western Australia in
The Cricketers of My Time now rich literary history. Writing in 1957, John Arlott described it as "still the finest study of cricket and cricketers ever written". "The Cricketers of My Time" was first published in serial form by a weekly London newspaper called "The Town" in 1832. The following year, the series with some modifications appeared as the second part of an instructional book entitled "The Young Cricketer's Tutor", which was also the title of the book's first part. There was a third part called "A Few Memoranda Respecting the Progress of Cricket" and that is generally referred to as the "Memoranda". The first