AUS: Sheffield Shield 1992/93 - Summary
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Sheffield Shield
New South Wales won the sheffield shield on the
strength of Greg Matthews consistent bowling and Wayne
Holdsworth's late season revival, the batting was
dissapointing lacking consistency. Queensland finished
second, they also had a strong fast bowling line up and
again where weaker in batting relying heavily on Hayden.
Tasmania got to third on the back of an outright in their
last game against Queensland, they displayed god consistency
in both batting and bowling with Chris Matthews again
approaching 50 wickets. After winning the shield Western
Australia dissapointed with a fourth place, after starting
well with strong bowling and runs from Martyn and Langer the
bowling fell away towards the end of the season and Martyn
was away with the test team. South Australia also rose a
position because of an outright win at the last game, South
Australia was strong in batting, at times Peter Sleep was
batting at 9. However South Australia was extraordinaryily
weak in bowling, more so with Tim May playing for Australia.
Victoria drew up the tail simply because they were unable to
force an outright result, the bowlers simply took too long
to take wickets.
New South Wales continued their habit of starting
slowly, it appeared that Queensland would have a run away
lead by the end of the matches and have a home final, but an
unexpected collapse by Western Australia gave New South
Wales and unlikely victory and they went from strength to
strength to eventually demolish Queensland in final. The
final itself was described by many as disspointing as after
dismissing Queensland for 311, they then batted slowly for a
lead of 30, the time taken however almost made it impossible
for Queensland to win. They crumble for 75 and New South
Wales the forty six runs for the loss of only two wickets.
Queensland after losing outright to Western Australia
in the first game moved to the of the table early and lost
it only late in the season to New South Wales. The bowling
attck of Kasprowicz, Rackemann, Rowell and Tazelaar managed
consistently to bowl out the opposition, which gave them an
advantage overs others. The batting was heavily relient on
Matthew Hayden who passed a thousand runs again, although
Stuart Law and Trevor Barsby did give him some good support.
Tasmania had a water shed year as there batting
managed an unprecedented consistency, with 10 centuries
being score. Youngsters Dene Hills and Ricky Ponting were
the leading figures behind it. Ponting at 18 having a
sensational season with 750 runs. Chris Matthews proved very
reliable and was assisted by Shaun Young.
Western Australia was very relient on the younger
players as the older batsman Marsh, Veletta, Moody and
Andrews all struggled early in the season, as did Alderman
with the bowl and with Reid injured most of the bowling
duties fell to Brendan Julian and Jo Angel. Damien Martyn's
century in each innings in the first match helped them out
of trouble but he was unavailable for most of the season.
South Australia's captain Jamie Siddons was the shield
player of the year, but unfortunately for him South
Australia struggled, they lacked bowling ability. Webber had
a good debut, whilst Blewett broke through for his first
first class centuries.
Victoria's bowling took wickets at a good average but
not quickly enough so they failed to get outright victories.
Lehmann had a very slow start to the season, but made a few
more runs in the latter stages. Paul Nobe had a very good
season whilst Dean Jones struggled. All the older Victorian
bowlers struggled, in fact Paul Reiffel would have beeen
dropped if he hadn't been playing for Australia. The bright
light was another leggie Craig Howard.
Sheffield Shield Scores
Match Date Venue Result
Qld v WA 21.10.92 Brisbane WA 370 184,Qld 221 283 WA 50r
NSW v Vic 6.11.92 Sydney NSW 8-377 7-179,Vic 9-547 Drawn
Qld v SA 6.11.92 Brisbane SA 178 246,Qld 7-485 Qld In&61r
WA v NSW 14.11.92 Perth WA 159 286,NSW 220 5-229 NSW 5w
Vic v Qld 20.11.92 St Kilda Qld 9-222 9-144,Vic 195 9-95 Drawn
SA v Tas 20.11.92 Adelaide SA 7-368 2-268,Tas 6-298 123 SA 215r
Tas v NSW 27.11.92 Hobart Tas 403 6-211,NSW 272 7-287 Drawn
Vic v WA 4.12.92 St Kilda WA 212 3-337,Vic 352 Drawn
WA v SA 11.12.92 Perth SA 409 6-284,WA 6-304 7-392 WA 3w
NSW v Qld 11.12.92 Sydney Qld 447 9-256,NSW 382 6-247 Drawn
SA v NSW 18.12.92 Adelaide NSW 5-399 7-204,SA 215 379 NSW 9r
WA v Tas 18.12.92 Perth WA 417 9-268,Tas 9-457 Drawn
Qld v Pak 19.12.92 Brisbane Qld 260 7-398,Pak 6-268 4-291 Pak 6w
Tas v Vic 31.12.92 Hobart Vic 7-417 3-196,Tas 204 8-332 Drawn
WA v Vic 8.1.93 Perth WA 448,Vic 265 7-457 Drawn
SA v Qld 8.1.93 Adelaide SA 333 9-310,Qld 7-335,1-43 Drawn
Tas v SA 15.1.93 Hobart Tas 7-454,SA 271 6-314 Drawn
Qld v Tas 21.1.93 Brisbane Qld 168 162,Tas 335 Tas In&5r
NSW v Tas 27.1.93 Sydney Tas 292 9-295,NSW 9-338 Drawn
Qld v Vic 28.1.93 Brisbane Qld 201 7-321,Vic 155 156 Qld 211r
Vic v SA 3.2.93 MelbourneVic 8-406 7-201,SA 7-278 8-306 Drawn
NSW v WA 3.2.93 Sydney WA 467 168,NSW 452 3-186 NSW 7w
Vic v Tas 26.2.93 MelbourneVic 225 8-292,Tas 297 9-217 Drawn
Qld v NSW 26.2.93 Brisbane Qld 172 7-349,NSW 174 147 Qld 200r
SA v Vic 5.3.93 Adealide SA 362 274,Vic 8-365 7-261 Drawn
WA v QLd 5.3.93 Perth Qld 381 233,WA 298 3-318 WA 7w
NSW v SA 11.3.93 Sydney SA 317 163,NSW 9-393 1-88 NSW 9w
Tas v WA 11.3.93 Hobart WA 321 299,Tas 7-370 6-170 Drawn
SA v WA 18.3.93 Adelaide WA 5-323 9-235,SA 8-334,1-226 SA 9w
Tas v Qld 18.3.93 Hobart Qld 290 210,Tas 339 4-162 Tas 6w
Vic v NSW 18.3.93 MelbourneNSW 182 8-351,Vic 258 217 NSW 58r
NSW v Qld 26.3.93 Sydney Qld 311 75,NSW 341 2-46 NSW 8w
Contributed by Phil Shead (drinnen@deakin.edu.au)