2018–19 Sheffield Shield season 2018–19 Sheffield Shield season The 2018–19 Sheffield Shield season is the 117th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition in Australia. The season started on 16 October 2018. For the first time in six seasons, the fixture featured no day/night matches. The first five rounds took place prior to the international Test series against India, and in addition the season breaks for the Big Bash League. Queensland are the defending champions. All Sheffield Shield matches will be exclusively streamed live and free on Cricket Australia's official website, with the final broadcast live on Fox Sports' new Fox
Wisden Cricketers of the Century The only specialist bowler in the top five is Shane Warne, who was a leg spinner. Warne was the only one of the five still playing when the list was published, and the only one not to be knighted. Wisden Cricketers of the Century The Wisden Cricketers of the Century are five cricketers who were judged to be the most prominent players of the 20th century, as selected by a 100-member panel of cricket experts appointed by "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack" in 2000. The 97 men and three women ("the doyenne of English women's cricket, Netta Rheinberg, the Pakistani journalist Fareshteh