Events in Sport
- 1892-12-16 Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, SA v NSW
- 1926-12-11 Leo O'Connor is unbeaten on 143 as Queensland wins their first Sheffield Shield match by 5 wickets vs NSW at the Sydney Cricket Ground
Bradman's Unbeaten 340
1929-01-25 Future Australian cricket captain Don Bradman scores an unbeaten 340 for NSW v Victoria (488 mins, 38 fours); then highest individual score in a Sheffield Shield match
- 1934-01-30 Former Australian cricket spin bowler Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days as Victoria draws with NSW at the Sydney Cricket Ground
- 1935-12-18 Don Bradman scores 117 in his debut Sheffield Shield cricket match for South Australia in an innings & 5 run win over his old team, New South Wales
- 1936-01-02 Australian master batsman Don Bradman scores 357 (424 minutes, 40 fours) for South Australia v Victoria in a Sheffield Shield match in Melbourne; his 5th 300+ score in first-class cricket
- 1936-11-14 More than 21,000 watch Don Bradman score 192 for South Australia v Victoria in a drawn Sheffield Shield match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 1937-12-20 Australian cricket spin bowler Bill O'Reilly takes career best 9-41 for NSW in a Sheffield Shield match against South Australia at Adelaide Oval
- 1937-12-21 Australian cricket spin bowler Bill O'Reilly takes 5-57 to complete match figures of 14-98 as NSW beats South Australia by 33 runs in a Sheffield Shield match in Adelaide
- 1939-01-02 Master batsman Don Bradman scores 107 for South Australia in a Sheffield Shield match against Victoria for his 4th consecutive century in first-class cricket
- 1940-12-25 Cricket master batsman Don Bradman is dismissed for a Xmas Day first ball duck (0) for South Australia v Victoria in a Sheffield Shield match at the Adelaide Oval
- 1963-10-27 Australian cricket opening batsman Bob Simpson scores 359 for NSW v Queensland in a Sheffield Shield match at the Gabba in Brisbane
- 1980-10-23 Rick McCosker (168) and John Dyson (152) make record 319 opening stand in a Sheffield Shield cricket match for NSW v WA in Sydney
- 1983-03-05 NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield
- 1984-03-13 WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
- 1984-12-02 Australian Test cricket spin bowler Bob Holland takes a career best 9-83 for NSW in the Sheffield Shield match against South Australia in Sydney
- 1985-03-19 NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
- 1986-03-18 Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Queensland
- 1987-03-24 WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
- 1988-03-22 WA beat Queensland by 5 wkts to win the Sheffield Shield Final
- 1990-03-27 NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
- 1991-03-26 Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
- 1992-04-01 Sheffield Shield Men's Cricket Final, Perth: West Australia beats NSW by 44 runs; Justin Langer 149
- 1993-03-29 Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final
- 1993-03-30 New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield
- 1994-10-13 Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland v Tasmania)
- 1995-03-28 Queensland beat South Australia in cricket to win the 1st ever Sheffield Shield
- 1996-04-03 South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield
Deaths in Sport
- 1981-03-26 Tim Wall, Australian cricket fast bowler (18 Tests, 56 wickets, BB 5/14; South Australia), dies from Parkinson's disease at 76
- 1983-04-28 Ron James, Australian cricketer (NSW's Sheffield Shield captain 1949-50), dies at 62
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