2011–12 Sheffield Shield season 2011–12 Sheffield Shield season The 2011–12 Sheffield Shield season is the 110th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. The season began on 11 October 2011, with Queensland playing Victoria, and concluded on 19 March 2012 with the top two teams playing off in the final. The top two teams after the conclusion of the regular season will compete in the Sheffield Shield final. The match will be contested at the home ground of the side that finishes first. In the result of a draw, the team that finished on top of the ladder, and
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