1980–81 Sheffield Shield season
Dates | 17 October 1980 | – 10 March 1981
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Administrator(s) | Cricket Australia |
Cricket format | First-class |
Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin |
Champions | Western Australia (8th title) |
Participants | 6 |
Matches | 25 |
Most runs | Greg Chappell (906) |
Most wickets | Bruce Yardley (40) |
The 1980–81 Sheffield Shield season was the 79th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition in Australia. It started on 17 October 1980 and finished on 9 March 1981. Going into the final round of matches, New South Wales, Western Australia and Queensland were all in a position to win the Shield. It would be Western Australia, who found form in the second half of the season with four straight victories, who would emerge victorious, drawing against Queensland to secure its eighth championship.
Match summaries[]
17–20 October 1980
[1] |
Queensland (H)
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189 (66.5 overs)
Greg Chappell 94 Len Pascoe 4/38 (15.5 overs) |
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295 (84.3 overs)
Greg Chappell 113 Graeme Beard 3/61 (23 overs) |
0/37 (10 overs)
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- New South Wales won the toss and elected to field.
- Mike Whitney (New South Wales) made his first-class debut.
- Points: Queensland 4 (Batting 1, Bowling 3); New South Wales 11 (Batting 6, Bowling 5)
17–20 October 1980
[2] |
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303 (110.2 overs)
Graeme Wood 78 Max Walker 4/82 (43.2 overs) | ||
3/149 (34.3 overs)
Rob Langer 75* Max Walker 2/44 (11 overs) |
- Western Australia won the toss and elected to field.
- Points: Western Australia 19 (Batting 4, Bowling 5); Victoria 5 (Batting 1, Bowling 4)
23–26 October 1980
[3] |
New South Wales (H)
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3/340d (100 overs)
Rick McCosker 168 |
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- New South Wales won the toss and elected to bat.
- Points: New South Wales 22 (Batting 7, Bowling 5); Western Australia 3 (Batting 1, Bowling 2)
23–26 October 1980
[3] |
Tasmania
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South Australia (H)
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9/465d (130.5 overs)
Peter Sleep 102* Stuart Saunders 4/154 (37.5 overs) | ||
137 (64.3 overs)
Roger Woolley 41* Ashley Mallett 3/25 (27 overs) |
4/68 (24.2 overs)
Jeff Crowe 24 |
- Tasmania won the toss and elected to bat.
- Points: South Australia 20 (Batting 7, Bowling 3); Tasmania 9 (Batting 6, Bowling 3)
24–27 October 1980
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Queensland (H)
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7/250d (99.3 overs)
Graham Matthews 62 Greg Chappell 3/29 (18.3 overs) |
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- Victoria won the toss and elected to bat
- Rain washed out all of Day 2 and most of Day 3
- Greg Ritchie (Queensland) made his first-class debut
- Points: Queensland 10 (Batting 6, Bowling 4); Victoria 7 (Batting 4, Bowling 3)
30 October–1 November 1980
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South Australia (H)
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338 (125.2 overs)
Ian Davis 64 Rodney Hogg 4/50 (28 overs) |
89 (40.5 overs)
David Hookes 17 Len Pascoe 5/27 (11.5 overs) | |
- South Australia won the toss and elected to field
- Jeff Hammond (South Australia) made his final first-class appearance
- Len Pascoe completed a hat-trick in South Australia's first innings
- Points: New South Wales 20 (Batting 5, Bowling 5); South Australia 2 (Bowling 2)
31 October–3 November 1980
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Queensland (H)
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261 (82 overs)
Bruce Yardley 78 Trevor Hohns 3/24 (6 overs) |
439 (136.5 overs)
Greg Chappell 194 Dennis Lillee 6/97 (46 overs) | |
0/82 (25 overs)
Kepler Wessels 39* |
- Western Australia won the toss and elected to bat
- Ian Kelly (Queensland) made his first-class debut
- Carl Rackemann (Queensland) suffered a pulled shoulder muscle during Western Australia's second innings and was unavailable to bowl on Day 4.
- Points: Queensland 11 (Batting 6, Bowling 5); Western Australia 6 (Batting 4, Bowling 2)
5–7 March 1981
[7] |
New South Wales (H)
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Tasmania
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222 (82.3 overs)
Rick McCosker 88 Rod McCurdy 3/37 (16.3 overs) |
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5/297d (102 overs)
Dirk Wellham 128* Rod McCurdy 4/52 (21 overs) |
133 (60.2 overs)
Rob Jeffery 47 David Hourn 6/33 (14.2 overs) |
- Tasmania won the toss and elected to field.
- Rick McCosker retired hurt in the New South Wales first innings having scored 61 (team score 0/120) – he returned when the score was 4/157[8]
- Points: New South Wales 17 (Batting 2, Bowling 5); Tasmania 8 (Batting 3, Bowling 5)
6–9 March 1981
[9] |
South Australia
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Victoria (H)
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6/312d (101 overs)
Wayne B. Phillips 111 Ian Callen 2/44 (14 overs) |
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5/309d (106.5 overs)
Wayne B. Phillips 91 |
- South Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- This was Ashley Mallett's final appearance in first-class cricket[10]
- Points: Victoria 10 (Batting 7, Bowling 3); South Australia 7 (Batting 6, Bowling 1)
6–9 March 1981
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8/305d (85.3 overs)
Greg Shipperd 140 Greg Chappell 4/66 (19.3 overs) |
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289 (121.1 overs)
Craig Serjeant 72 Jeff Thomson 4/63 (19.1 overs) |
9/232 (77 overs)
Allan Border 83* Bruce Yardley 3/34 (19 overs) |
- Queensland won the toss and elected to field.
- Greg Ritchie (Queensland) retired hurt in the Queensland first innings having scored 0 (team score 3/59) – he returned when the score was 6/142[12]
- Points: Western Australia 11 (Batting 6, Bowling 5); Queensland 5 (Batting 1, Bowling 4)
Points table[]
Team[13] | Pld | W | L | D | BatBP | BowBP | Adj | Pts | Quot |
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Western Australia | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 39 | 36 | 125 | 1.070 | |
New South Wales | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 45 | 37 | 122 | 1.487 | |
Queensland | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 51 | 37 | 118 | 1.278 | |
Victoria | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 32 | 29 | 91 | 1.040 | |
Tasmania | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 21 | 18 | 31.2 | 70.2 | 0.571 |
South Australia | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 28 | 31 | 69 | 0.708 |
Statistics[]
Most runs[]
Player[14] | Team | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | Ave | HS | 100 | 50 |
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Greg Chappell | Queensland | 7 | 10 | 2 | 906 | 113.25 | 194 | 4 | 3 |
John Dyson | New South Wales | 7 | 11 | 2 | 815 | 90.55 | 152 | 3 | 4 |
Martin Kent | Queensland | 9 | 16 | 4 | 809 | 67.41 | 171 | 2 | 5 |
Kepler Wessels | Queensland | 9 | 16 | 2 | 747 | 53.35 | 160 | 2 | 2 |
Brian Davison | Tasmania | 5 | 10 | 697 | 69.70 | 173 | 4 | 2 |
Most wickets[]
Player[15] | Team | Mat | Balls | Runs | Wkts | Avge | BBI | SR | 5WI | 10WM |
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Bruce Yardley | Western Australia | 9 | 2261 | 968 | 40 | 24.20 | 7/62 | 56.5 | 3 | 1 |
Jeff Thomson | Queensland | 9 | 1853 | 914 | 36 | 25.38 | 5/61 | 51.4 | 1 | |
Len Pascoe | New South Wales | 7 | 1457 | 659 | 35 | 18.82 | 5/27 | 41.6 | 1 | |
Geoff Lawson | New South Wales | 9 | 1917 | 845 | 35 | 24.14 | 5/50 | 54.7 | 1 | |
Terry Alderman | Western Australia | 8 | 1474 | 747 | 32 | 23.34 | 4/33 | 46.0 | ||
Dennis Lillee | Western Australia | 7 | 1743 | 765 | 32 | 23.90 | 6/97 | 54.4 | 2 |
References[]
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- ^ a b "SHEFFIELD SHIELD CRICKET". The Canberra Times. Vol. 55, no. 16, 468. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 27 October 1980. p. 19. Retrieved 7 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "CRICKET: Greg Chappell in top form". The Canberra Times. Vol. 55, no. 16, 469. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 28 October 1980. p. 16. Retrieved 8 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "SHEFFIELD SHIELD CRICKET NSW speeds SA to defeat". The Canberra Times. Vol. 55, no. 16, 474. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 2 November 1980. p. 3 (SPORT). Retrieved 8 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Hughes stifles imminent Qld victory". The Canberra Times. Vol. 55, no. 16, 476. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 November 1980. p. 20. Retrieved 9 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "SHEFFIELD SHIELD Tasmania collapses against NSW spin". The Canberra Times. Vol. 55, no. 16, 600. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 9 March 1981. p. 13. Retrieved 6 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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- ^ "Victoria misses $10,000". The Canberra Times. Vol. 55, no. 16, 601. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 10 March 1981. p. 20. Retrieved 6 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ See notes at bottom of https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/40/40991.html
- ^ "CRICKET Draw enough to give WA eighth Sheffield Shield". The Canberra Times. Vol. 55, no. 16, 601. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 10 March 1981. p. 20. Retrieved 6 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "The Home of CricketArchive".
- ^ "Sheffield Shield 1980–81 Points Table". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ^ "Sheffield Shield 1980/81: Batting - Most Runs". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ^ "Sheffield Shield 1980/81: Bowling - Most Wickets". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1980–81 Australian cricket season
- Domestic cricket competitions in 1980–81
- Sheffield Shield seasons