The 2010–11 Sheffield Shield season was the 118th season of the Sheffield Shield, the first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 domestic cricket competition of Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The season began on 8 October 2010, and ended on 21 March 2011 at the Bellerive Oval

Bellerive Oval

Bellerive Oval, also known as its sponsored name Blundstone Arena, is primarily a cricket and Australian Rules Football ground located in Bellerive, City of Clarence, on the eastern shore of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia...

, Hobart

Hobart

Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...

, with the Tasmanian Tigers

Tasmanian Tigers

The Tasmanian cricket team, nicknamed the Tigers, represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket tournaments. They compete annually in the Australian domestic senior men's cricket season, which currently consists of the first-class Sheffield Shield, the limited overs Ford Ranger Cup, and...

 wining their second shield.

Teams

Club	Home Ground	Captain
New South Wales Blues New South Wales Blues The New South Wales cricket team are an Australian first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales...	Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney Cricket Ground The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian...	Simon Katich Simon Katich Simon Matthew Katich is an Australian cricketer. He is the captain of the New South Wales Blues, and also captained, up until the end of the 2007 season, Derbyshire County Cricket Club...
Queensland Bulls Queensland Bulls The Queensland cricket team, nicknamed the Bulls, are the Brisbane-based Queensland representative cricket team in Australia's domestic cricket tournaments:*Sheffield Shield, 4-day matches with first-class status, since the 1926/27 season...	Brisbane Cricket Ground Brisbane Cricket Ground The Brisbane Cricket Ground, commonly known as The Gabba, is a major sports stadium in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland. It is named after the suburb of Woolloongabba, in which it is located....	James Hopes James Hopes James Redfern Hopes is an Australian cricketer. Hopes plays domestic cricket for Queensland and for Delhi Dare Devils in the Indian Premier League, he has represented Australia in One Day International and Twenty20 cricket.A medium pacer whose aggressive batting has been shuffled around the...
Southern Redbacks Southern Redbacks The South Australia cricket team, nicknamed the Southern Redbacks and known as the West End Redbacks due to their sponsorship agreement with local brewers West End, are an Australian first class cricket team based in Adelaide, South Australia, and represent the state of South Australia...	Adelaide Oval Adelaide Oval The Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the Central Business District and North Adelaide...	Michael Klinger Michael Klinger Michael Klinger is a first-class cricketer with the South Australia Redbacks. His nickname is "Maxy", after the M*A*S*H character Maxwell Klinger....
Tasmanian Tigers Tasmanian Tigers The Tasmanian cricket team, nicknamed the Tigers, represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket tournaments. They compete annually in the Australian domestic senior men's cricket season, which currently consists of the first-class Sheffield Shield, the limited overs Ford Ranger Cup, and...	Bellerive Oval Bellerive Oval Bellerive Oval, also known as its sponsored name Blundstone Arena, is primarily a cricket and Australian Rules Football ground located in Bellerive, City of Clarence, on the eastern shore of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia...	George Bailey George Bailey (cricketer) George John Bailey is an Australian cricketer, and the captain of the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian first class cricket...
Victorian Bushrangers Victorian Bushrangers The Victorian cricket team, nicknamed the Bushrangers, is an Australian cricket team based in Melbourne, that represents the state of Victoria. It is administered by Cricket Victoria and draws its players from Melbourne's Premier Cricket competition...	Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne Cricket Ground The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...	Cameron White Cameron White Cameron Leon White is an Australian cricketer and current Australian Twenty20 captain. A powerful middle order batsman and right-arm leg-spin bowler, White made his first-class cricket debut as a teenager in the 2000–01 season for the Victorian Bushrangers as a bowling all-rounder...
Western Warriors Western Warriors The Western Australia cricket team are an Australian first class cricket team representing the state of Western Australia...	WACA Ground WACA Ground The WACA is a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia. WACA are the initials of its owners and operators, the Western Australian Cricket Association....	Marcus North Marcus North Marcus James North is an Australian cricketer, who scored centuries on both his Test and Ashes debuts. He has also played for the Australian Cricket Academy, Western Australia, Australia A, Durham, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire and Hampshire.He is a left-handed batsman and right arm...

Table

The top two teams after each round is played will compete for the Sheffield Shield final. The match will be contested at the home ground of the side that finishes first. In the result of a draw, the team that finished on top of the ladder, and hence hosting the match will be awarded the title. For an explanation of how points are awarded, see Sheffield Shield Points System.

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	Quotient	For		Against
	44	10	7	1	2	1.287	142	4024	172	3786
	38	10	6	2	2	1.355	145	4916	180	4503
	26	10	4	3	3	1.001	146	3987	142	3873
	22	10	3	2	5	0.901	171	4891	151	4795
	20	10	3	3	4	0.914	165	4976	161	5312
	12	10	1	1	8	0.722	187	4754	150	5279

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Final

Most runs

Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Mark Cosgrove Mark Cosgrove Mark James Cosgrove is a left-handed batsman and part-time medium pace bowler, who is contracted with the Tasmania for the 2010–11 season after previously playing for South Australia. In 2005 Cosgrove was named the Bradman Young Player of the Year...		11	18	806	53.73	159	2	3
Rob Quiney		10	19	724	42.58	106	2	4
Phil Jaques Phil Jaques Philip Anthony Jaques is an Australian cricketer. He is a left-handed opening batsman who has played first-class cricket for New South Wales, Northamptonshire, Yorkshire and Worcestershire, as well as international cricket for Australia...		11	21	674	33.70	129	2	1
Aaron Finch Aaron Finch Aaron James Finch is an Australian cricketer who plays for Victoria. A right-handed batsman, he played in the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka. Finch is a middle order batsman, but has been used up the order when playing for club side Geelong. Finch got his opportunity in the State...		10	20	645	33.94	84	0	5
Chris Lynn Chris Lynn Christopher Austin Lynn is an Australian cricketer. Lynn is a right-handed middle order batsmen who plays for the Queensland Bulls in the Australian domestic cricket competitions. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland and attended St Joseph's Nudgee College.Lynn made his debut for Queensland against...		9	15	641	49.80	172	2	2

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Highest scores

Runs	Balls	Player	Team	Opponent	Ground
214	294	Usman Khawaja Usman Khawaja Usman Khawaja is an Australian cricketer. He was awarded player of the Australian Under 19 Championship in 2005 and also played for Australia in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka as an opening batsman. His club side is Randwick-Petersham....			Adelaide Oval Adelaide Oval The Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the Central Business District and North Adelaide...
172	287	Chris Lynn Chris Lynn Christopher Austin Lynn is an Australian cricketer. Lynn is a right-handed middle order batsmen who plays for the Queensland Bulls in the Australian domestic cricket competitions. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland and attended St Joseph's Nudgee College.Lynn made his debut for Queensland against...			Brisbane Cricket Ground Brisbane Cricket Ground The Brisbane Cricket Ground, commonly known as The Gabba, is a major sports stadium in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland. It is named after the suburb of Woolloongabba, in which it is located.... , Woolloongabba, Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
163	116	Andrew McDonald Andrew McDonald (cricketer) Andrew Barry McDonald is an Australian Test cricketer who plays for the Victorian Bushrangers, and who made his Test debut in Sydney on 3 January 2009, against South Africa. McDonald also represented Australia at under 19 level and has played for the Prime Minister's XI...			Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth Perth, Western Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
160* Not out In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...	235	George Bailey George Bailey (cricketer) George John Bailey is an Australian cricketer, and the captain of the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian first class cricket...			Bellerive Oval Bellerive Oval Bellerive Oval, also known as its sponsored name Blundstone Arena, is primarily a cricket and Australian Rules Football ground located in Bellerive, City of Clarence, on the eastern shore of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia... , Hobart Hobart Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
159	194	Mark Cosgrove Mark Cosgrove Mark James Cosgrove is a left-handed batsman and part-time medium pace bowler, who is contracted with the Tasmania for the 2010–11 season after previously playing for South Australia. In 2005 Cosgrove was named the Bradman Young Player of the Year...			Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne Cricket Ground The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...

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Most wickets

Player	Team	Matches	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W
Luke Butterworth Luke Butterworth Luke Rex Butterworth in Hobart, Tasmania is an Australian cricket player, who plays for the Tasmanian Tigers and plays club cricket for Glenorchy Cricket Club....		10	301.5	45	17.53	6/51	2
Trent Copeland Trent Copeland Trent Aaron Copeland is an Australian cricket player. He is a right-arm fast bowler who currently plays first-class cricket for the New South Wales Blues...		10	451.0	45	24.68	6/51	1
Adam Maher Adam Maher Adam Maher is a Dutch-Moroccan professional football player currently playing for AZ.-Club career:He made his professional debut for AZ on December 15, 2010 in a 2010–11 UEFA Europa League game against FC BATE Borisov and scored a goal on his debut...		9	265.0	37	18.21	5/14	1
James Faulkner James Faulkner (cricketer) James Peter Faulkner is a cricketer who plays for Tasmania. Faulkner is an all-rounder, and in the 2010–11 Sheffield Shield season he made 300 runs at 30 and took 36 wickets at 17.72....		9	206.0	36	17.72	5/5	2
Ryan Duffield Ryan Duffield Ryan Duffield is an Australian cricketer, currently playing for the Western Warriors.-Early career:Duffield was born in Darkan, Western Australia. He played for Gosnells and Melville in the Western Australian Grade Cricket competition, and also played for Western Australia Under-23s in the 2009-10...		7	230.1	33	22.90	6/77	1

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Best bowling

Figures	Overs	Player	Team	Opponent	Ground
8/35	15.3	Darren Pattinson Darren Pattinson Darren John Pattinson is an English cricketer who currently plays for Victoria and Nottinghamshire.Pattinson received considerable press coverage when he was surprisingly selected for the England cricket team in July 2008 for the 2nd Test against South Africa at Headingley...			Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth Perth, Western Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
7/75	24.1	Chris Swan Chris Swan Christopher Richard Swan is an Australian professional cricketer. He is a right-arm swing bowler who has played for the Queensland Bulls since 2006....			Brisbane Cricket Ground Brisbane Cricket Ground The Brisbane Cricket Ground, commonly known as The Gabba, is a major sports stadium in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland. It is named after the suburb of Woolloongabba, in which it is located.... , Woolloongabba, Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
6/22	11.0	Mark Cameron Mark Cameron (cricketer) Mark Cameron is an Australian cricketer who currently plays first-class cricket for the New South Wales Blues. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. Mark was drafted into the squad for the Australia A tour of India in September 2008....			Brisbane Cricket Ground Brisbane Cricket Ground The Brisbane Cricket Ground, commonly known as The Gabba, is a major sports stadium in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland. It is named after the suburb of Woolloongabba, in which it is located.... , Woolloongabba, Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
6/37	12.0	Luke Feldman Luke Feldman Luke Feldman is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Queensland Bulls. He is the son of former Queensland One Nation party leader Bill Feldman. He was a policeman in his country town of Charters Towers and drove to play club cricket in Townsville before returning to fulfill his duties as a...			Brisbane Cricket Ground Brisbane Cricket Ground The Brisbane Cricket Ground, commonly known as The Gabba, is a major sports stadium in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland. It is named after the suburb of Woolloongabba, in which it is located.... , Woolloongabba, Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
6/50	22.0	James Hopes James Hopes James Redfern Hopes is an Australian cricketer. Hopes plays domestic cricket for Queensland and for Delhi Dare Devils in the Indian Premier League, he has represented Australia in One Day International and Twenty20 cricket.A medium pacer whose aggressive batting has been shuffled around the...			Adelaide Oval Adelaide Oval The Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the Central Business District and North Adelaide...

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