VICTORIA V DECEMBER 6-9, 2015 SOUTH AUSTRALIA FACT SHEET SHEFFIELD SHIELD LIBRARY Between the teams – Victoria v South Australia The rivalry between the teams dates back to November 1874 when 18 of South Australia took on 11 of Victoria at the Adelaide Oval, the visitors winning a low-scoring contest by 14 runs. The inaugural first-class match between Victoria and SA took place at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in November 1880 when the home side won by seven wickets. Prior to the introduction of the Sheffield Shield competition in 1892/93, the colonies had met 13 times in 11-a-side contests, Victoria winning seven matches and SA six. The first Shield game between the teams was played at the MCG from December 31, 1892 to January 4, 1893, Victoria winning by six wickets. Victoria also won the return match at Adelaide to go through the inaugural Shield season undefeated and thus become the first winners of the competition. South Australia gained their revenge next season, however, winning both its matches against Victoria to enable it to annex the Shield for the first time. Curiously, the other original Shield team, New South Wales, which came to dominate the competition for many years, did not win it for the first time until 1895/96. Records between the states Of the 227 Sheffield Shield/Pura Cup contests between the teams to date, Victoria has won 116 games to South Australia’s 53, with the remaining 58 drawn. Victoria’s superiority is even more marked at the MCG, where the home side has won 62 of the 103 matches played and SA only 15. Victoria has won the Sheffield Shield/Pura Cup 29 times to South Australia’s 13. The states have never met in a final, which was played for the first time in 1982/83. Since then, Victoria has won the competition five times, in 1990/91, 2003/04, 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2014/15, while South Australia’s only success was in 1995/96. Four triple centuries have been recorded in Victoria/SA contests: for SA 357 by Don Bradman at the MCG in 1935/36 and 325 by Jack Badcock at Adelaide later in the same season, and 336 for Victoria by Bill Ponsford at the MCG in 1927/28 and an unbeaten 324 by Dean Jones, also at the MCG, in 1994/95. Darren Lehmann (12) holds the record for most hundreds, nine for SA and three for Victoria which he represented from 1990/91 to 1992/93. Warwick Armstrong and Bill Ponsford each made 11 centuries for Victoria. The highest partnership is 337 for the first wicket by Victoria’s Ken Meuleman (150) and Colin McDonald (186) at Adelaide in 1949/50, while the best for SA is 260 for the second wicket by Ben Johnson (165) and Greg Blewett (103) at Adelaide in 2002/03. There are nine instances of bowlers taking nine wickets in an innings, George Giffen doing so on three occasions. The best figures are SA’s Joe Travers’ 9/30 at the MCG in 1900/01 and Victoria’s Ernie McCormick’s 9/40 at Adelaide in 1936/37. Giffen has recorded five of the top six match hauls, his best being 17/201 (9/91 & 8/110) at Adelaide in 1885/86. In Shield matches his best was 15/185 (7/75 & 8/110) at Adelaide in 1902/03. The best match haul for Victoria is Hugh Trumble’s 15/199 (7/89 & 8/110) at Adelaide in 1889/90. In Shield matches, Victoria’s best match haul is Jack Ryder’s 13/155 (6/102 & 7/53) at the MCG in 1912/13. Hat tricks have been taken by SA’s Bruce Dooland at St Kilda in 1945/46 and Victoria’s Ian Harvey at Adelaide in 2001/02. The best performance by a keeper was Victoria’s Darren Berry at the MCG in 1996/97 when he dismissed 11 batsmen, including eight (seven caught and one stumped) in the first innings. The highest innings total is Victoria’s 724 (Warwick Armstrong 245, Arthur Liddicut 152) at the MCG in 1920/21, while the best for SA is its 610 (Bradman 267) at the MCG in 1939/40. Victoria’s lowest score is 43 (Ernie Jones 6/15, Fred Jarvis 4/27) at the MCG in 1895/96, while SA’s lowest in all matches is 23 (Joey Palmer 5/16, Harry Boyle 4/6) at East Melbourne in 1882/83 and in Shield matches 68 (“Chuck” Fleetwood-Smith 4/19) at the MCG in 1931/32. SA’s Clem Hill is the leading runscorer in matches between the states with 3031 runs at 49.48, followed by Victoria’s Warwick Armstrong’s 2845 runs at 64.65. Other prominent runscorers are Darren Lehmann (2760 at 62.73), Ian Chappell (2659 at 64.85), Bill Ponsford (2525 at 81.45) and Brad Hodge (2448 at 56.93). George Giffen is easily the leading wicket- taker with 224 wickets at 17.75, which includes ten 10-wicket hauls, followed by Clarrie Grimmett (one match for Victoria and 29 for SA) with 152 at 31.63. Jack Saunders is the leading Victorian wicket-taker, with 106 at 21.78. Astonishingly, Giffen achieved the rare match double of 100 runs and 10 wickets no fewer than seven times against Victoria. Sheffield Shield standings as at Dec. 6, 2015 Last season At Adelaide Oval, November 16-19, 2014. SOUTH Teams Mat Won Lost Tied Draw Aban Pts AUSTRALIA 8/431 dec (C.J. Ferguson 140, T.P. Ludeman 106) Victoria 4 2 0 0 2 0 26.2 and 130 (P.M. Siddle 5/31) lost to VICTORIA 7/607 dec South 4 2 2 0 0 0 19.5 (P.S.P. Handscomb 134, C.J.L. Rogers 107, M.P. Stoinis 90, Australia D.T. Christian 89, D.J. Hussey 81, R.J. Quiney 52) by an innings New South 4 2 1 0 1 0 17.83 and 46 runs. Man of the match: Peter Siddle. Wales At Glenelg Oval, March 5-8, 2015. VICTORIA 6/534 dec Queensland 4 2 2 0 0 0 17.82 (D.J. Hussey 142, R.J. Quiney 125, M.S. Wade 83, D.T. Christian Western 4 1 2 0 1 0 12.8 Australia 57*, M.P. Stoinis 51, C.J.L. Rogers 47) defeated SOUTH Tasmania 4 1 3 0 0 0 9.3 AUSTRALIA 175 (J.S. Lehmann 54; P.M. Siddle 8/54) and 358 (T.M. Head 85, K.R. Smith75, M.J. Cosgrove 68) by an innings and 1 run. Man of the match: Peter Siddle. 1 Jamie Siddons – played for both states At the time of his retirement from the game in 1999/00, present South Australian coach Jamie Siddons held the record for the most runs scored in the Sheffield Shield competition, having made 10,643 at an average of 44.72, a total since exceeded only by Jamie Cox (10,821) and Darren Lehmann (13,685). The only players to exceed his tally of 30 Shield centuries are Lehmann (45), Michael Bevan (42), Sir Donald Bradman (36), Chris Rogers (33), and Matthew Elliott and Dean Jones (each with 31). Siddons converted three of his hundreds into double centuries, the highest of which, 245 against New South Wales, is featured in the match description below. Siddons can be counted among a select group of highly gifted Australian batsmen never to play Test cricket. A superb strokemaker and brilliant fieldsman, he was a member of the 1988/89 Australian team to Pakistan, only for illness to rule him out of consideration for the three Tests. His only consolation was to take part in the sole Limited-Overs International, in which he contributed a bright 32. Each side made 229, but Pakistan was awarded the match by virtue of having lost fewer wickets. Siddons continued to score heavily at domestic level for a further decade but never received another national call. He made his first-class debut in 1984/85, for Victoria against the West Indians, and went on to represent the state in 72 first-class games, compiling 5089 runs at an average of 46.85, including 15 centuries. Thirteen of those appearances were against South Australia, in which he made 1385 runs at 72.89, including four hundreds. After the end of the 1990/91 season Siddons moved to Adelaide, having accepted an appointment to captain SA. He led the state for the next seven years, which included its memorable clinching of the Shield in the 1995/96 final against Western Australia, in which he played an important role. Needing only a draw to win the Shield, SA seemed in a hopeless position on the last day but Siddons, batting down the order at No. 7 because of a painful hip injury, defended grimly for two and three-quarter hours, during which he made only one scoring shot – a cover-drive for four – which eventually allowed SA to draw the match with its last pair at the crease and thereby annex the Shield. Siddons made 86 first-class appearances for SA, in which he scored 6430 runs at 43.74, including 20 centuries. Within those figures are 16 matches against Victoria, in which he made 713 runs at 25.46, with one hundred. Victoria v New South Wales at Junction Oval, St Kilda, November 16-19, 1990. Both sides were without key players. Darren Lehmann and Peter McIntyre (Victoria), Greg Matthews and Mark Waugh (NSW) were all representing an Australian XI against England in Hobart, while Mark Taylor (broken finger) was a further absentee from the visitors’ lineup.