Ian William Geddes Johnson,was an Australian cricketer who played 45 Test matches as a slow off-break bowler between 1946 and 1956. Johnson captured 109 Test wickets at an average of 29.19 runs per wicket and as a capable lower order batsman made 1,000 runs at an average of 18.51 runs per dismissal. He captained the Australian team in 17 Tests,winning seven and losing five,with a further five drawn. Despite this record,he is better known as the captain who lost consecutive Ashes series against England. Urbane,well-spoken and popular with his opponents and the public,he was seen by his teammates as a disciplinarian and his natural optimism was often seen as naive.
Arthur Lindsay Hassett was an Australian cricketer who played for Victoria and the Australian national team. The diminutive Hassett was an elegant middle-order batsman,described by Wisden as,"... a master of nearly every stroke ... his superb timing,nimble footwork and strong wrists enabled him to make batting look a simple matter". His sporting career at school singled him out as a precocious talent,but he took a number of seasons to secure a regular place in first-class cricket and initially struggled to make large scores. Selected for the 1938 tour of England with only one first-class century to his name,Hassett established himself with three consecutive first-class tons at the start of the campaign. Although he struggled in the Tests,he played a crucial role in Australia's win in the Fourth Test,with a composed display in the run-chase which sealed the retention of the Ashes. Upon returning to Australia,he distinguished himself in domestic cricket with a series of high scores,becoming the only player to score two centuries in a match against Bill O'Reilly—widely regarded as the best bowler in the world.
Clement"Clem" Hill was an Australian cricketer who played 49 Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1896 and 1912. He captained the Australian team in ten Tests,winning five and losing five. A prolific run scorer,Hill scored 3,412 runs in Test cricket—a world record at the time of his retirement—at an average of 39.21 per innings,including seven centuries. In 1902,Hill was the first batsman to make 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year,a feat that would not be repeated for 45 years. His innings of 365 scored against New South Wales for South Australia in 1900–01 was a Sheffield Shield record for 27 years. The South Australian Cricket Association named a grandstand at the Adelaide Oval in his honour in 2003 and he was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2005.Hill is regarded as one of the best batsman of his era.
George Henry Stevens Trott was an Australian cricketer who played 24 Test matches as an all-rounder between 1888 and 1898. Although Trott was a versatile batsman,spin bowler and outstanding fielder,"it is as a captain that he is best remembered,an understanding judge of human nature". After a period of some instability and ill discipline in Australian cricket,he was the first in a succession of assertive Australian captains that included Joe Darling,Monty Noble and Clem Hill,who restored the prestige of the Test team. Respected by teammates and opponents alike for his cricketing judgement,Trott was quick to pick up a weakness in opponents. A right-handed batsman,he was known for his sound defence and vigorous hitting. His slow leg-spin bowling was often able to deceive batsmen through subtle variations of pace and flight,but allowed opposition batsmen to score quickly.
William Harold PonsfordMBE was an Australian cricketer. Usually playing as an opening batsman,he formed a successful and long-lived partnership opening the batting for Victoria and Australia with Bill Woodfull,his friend and state and national captain. Ponsford is the only player to twice break the world record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket;Ponsford and Brian Lara are the only cricketers to twice score 400 runs in an innings. Ponsford holds the Australian record for a partnership in Test cricket,set in 1934 in combination with Don Bradman —the man who broke many of Ponsford's other individual records. In fact,he along with Bradman set the record for the highest partnership ever for any wicket in Test cricket history when playing on away soil
Intercolonial cricket matches were the first-class cricket matches played between the various colonies of Australia prior to federation in 1901. After federation,they became known as Interstate matches. By the 1880s regular intercolonials were being played,generally with intense rivalry. Matches against visiting professional teams from England also attracted public interest.
Leslie O'Brien"Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith was a cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia. Known universally as "Chuck",he was the "wayward genius" of Australian cricket during the 1930s. A slow bowler who could spin the ball harder and further than his contemporaries,Fleetwood-Smith was regarded as a rare talent,but his cricket suffered from a lack of self-discipline that also characterised his personal life. In addition,his career coincided with those of Bill O'Reilly and Clarrie Grimmett,two spinners named in the ten inaugural members of the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame;as a result he played only ten Test matches but left a lasting impression with one delivery in particular. His dismissal of Wally Hammond in the fourth Test of the 1936–37 Ashes series has been compared to Shane Warne's ball of the century. He has the unwanted record of conceding the most runs by a bowler in a Test match innings.
Clayvel Lindsay "Jack" Badcock was an Australian cricketer who played in seven Tests from 1936 to 1938.
Douglas Thomas Ring was an Australian cricketer who played for Victoria and for Australia in 13 Test matches between 1948 and 1953. In 129 first-class cricket matches,he took 426 wickets bowling leg spin,and he had a top score of 145 runs,which was the only century of his career.
Ian Charles Davis is an Australian former cricketer (batsman) who played in 15 Test matches and three One Day Internationals between 1973 and 1977. Davis retired from first-class cricket in 1984 then worked for Dunlop Slazenger until his retirement in 2010.
Roger Douglas Woolley is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Test matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 1983 and 1984. He was a middle-order batsman,and later a wicket-keeper. He was a member of the Tasmanian side that won their first domestic title in the 1978/79 Gillette Cup.
Jonathan Wayne Wells is an Australian cricket player,who plays for Western Australia in first-class and one-day cricket,and the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League (BBL). He originates from Tasmania,and represented Tasmania in both first-class and one-day cricket prior.
James Archibald "Snowy" Atkinson was an Australian rules footballer and first class cricketer.
Richard Ivor Maddocks was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria in the Sheffield Shield. He also played Australian rules football with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Hilton William Raymond Cartwright is a Zimbabwean born Australian international cricketer who plays for Western Australia and the Melbourne Stars. He is a right-handed all-rounder. Cartwright made his Test debut for the Australian national team in January 2017,having earlier played for Australia A and the National Performance Squad. In January 2017 he won the Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year prize awarded by Cricket Australia.
Peter Stephen Patrick Handscomb is an Australian cricketer who is the current captain for the Victoria cricket team.
Jack Daniel was an Australian sportsman who played both cricket and baseball at high levels.
John Hilary Shaw was an Australian cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1953 to 1961. He toured New Zealand with the Australian team in 1959–60,but did not play Test cricket.
Jeffrey Hallebone was an Australian cricketer who played at first-class level for Victoria between 1952 and 1955. He was best known for his accomplishment of scoring a double century on his first-class debut,which made him the third Australian to accomplish that feat,and as of 2015 the last to do so.
The 2019–20 Sheffield Shield season was the 118th season of the Sheffield Shield,the domestic first-class cricket competition in Australia. It began on 10 October 2019 and was scheduled to finish on 31 March 2020. The first four rounds took place prior to the international Test series against Pakistan,and in addition the season breaks for the Big Bash League. Victoria were the defending champions.
