2017–18 Sheffield Shield season 2017–18 Sheffield Shield season The 2017–18 Sheffield Shield season was the 116th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition in Australia. It started on 26 October 2017 and finished on 27 March 2018. The opening round of matches were played as day/night fixtures and the first three rounds of matches took place before the Ashes series. Victoria were the defending champions. In round two of the competition, Mitchell Starc became the first bowler to take a hat-trick in each innings of a first-class cricket match in Australia. He became the second Australian, and the eighth bowler overall,
Ennis Shield and the bottom two teams get relegated to the "O'Hanlon Cup". The first Ennis Shield 1926-1927 season, was competed for by UCD and Irish Army GHQ the lowest two teams in the previous seasons Armstrong Cup, they were joined by teams from Rathmines, The Jewish Union, Dublin Corporation and Non Commissioned Army Officers side. Ennis Shield The Ennis Shield is the third division of the Leinster Chess Leagues run by the Leinster Chess Union. Founded in 1926, it was originally the second division of the leinster leagues with it top teams promoted to the Armstrong Cup, in 1971 another league