2012–13 Sheffield Shield season
Appearance
	
	
| Administrator | Cricket Australia | 
|---|---|
| Cricket format | First-class | 
| Tournament format | Double round-robin | 
| Champions | Tasmania (3rd title) | 
| Participants | 6 | 
| Player of the series | Ricky Ponting (Tasmania) | 
| Most runs | Ricky Ponting (Tasmania) – 911 runs | 
| Most wickets | Chadd Sayers (South Australia) – 48 wickets | 
The 2012–13 Sheffield Shield season was the 111th season of the Sheffield Shield, the Australian domestic first-class cricket competition. The competition was won by Tasmania. It was one of the most tightly contested seasons in many years, with all six teams having a chance to make the final heading into the last round of the regular season.
Table
[edit]| Team | Pld | WO | WI | D | LO | LI | Pts | Quot | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  Tasmania | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 1.3755 | 
|  Queensland | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 30 | 0.9896 | 
|  New South Wales | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 1.1526 | 
|  Victoria | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 28 | 0.9453 | 
|  Western Australia | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 28 | 0.8198 | 
|  South Australia | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 26 | 0.8533 | 
Updated to completion of season.[1]
Fixtures
[edit]September 2012
[edit]| 18–20 September    Scorecard | 
| v | ||
- New South Wales won the toss and elected to field
- Points: New South Wales 6, Western Australia 0
| 26–29 September    Scorecard | 
| (H) New South Wales   | v | |
- New South Wales won the toss and elected to bat
- Points: New South Wales 2, Tasmania 0
| 30 September – 2 October    Scorecard | 
| v | ||
- Victoria won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Victoria 6, Western Australia 0
October 2012
[edit]| 1–4 October    Scorecard | 
| (H) Queensland   | v | |
- South Australia won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Queensland 6, South Australia 0
| 9–12 October    Scorecard | 
| v |  South Australia (H) | |
- Tasmania won the toss and elected to bat
- Points: Tasmania 6, South Australia 0
| 10–13 October    Scorecard | 
| (H) Queensland   | v | |
- Victoria won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Victoria 6, Queensland 0
| 23–26 October    Scorecard | 
| v |  Victoria (H) | |
- Victoria won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Tasmania 2, Victoria 0
| 23–26 October    Scorecard | 
| (H) South Australia   | v | |
- South Australia won the toss and elected to bat
- Points: Queensland 2, South Australia 0
November 2012
[edit]| 1–4 November    Scorecard | 
| v |  Tasmania (H) | |
- Tasmania won the toss and elected to field
- Points: South Australia 6, Tasmania 2
| 1–4 November    Scorecard | 
| v |  Victoria (H) | |
- Victoria won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Victoria 6, Western Australia 2
| 2–5 November    Scorecard | 
| v |  Queensland (H) | |
- Queensland won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Queensland 6, New South Wales 0
| 9–12 November    Scorecard | 
| (H) Tasmania   | v | |
- Queensland won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Queensland 6, Tasmania 0
| 12–15 November    Scorecard | 
| v | ||
- Western Australia won the toss and elected to bat
- Points: Western Australia 6, South Australia 0
| 13–16 November    Scorecard | 
| (H) New South Wales   | v | |
- New South Wales won the toss and elected to bat
- Rain reduced play on the final day to 5 overs
- Points: Victoria 2, New South Wales 0
- First class debut: Louis Cameron (Victoria)
| 23–26 November    Scorecard | 
| (H) Victoria   | v | |
- South Australia won the toss and elected to field
- Points: South Australia 6, Victoria 0
| 26–29 November    Scorecard | 
| v |  Tasmania (H) | |
- Western Australia won the toss and elected to bat
- Points: Tasmania 6, Western Australia 0
| 27–30 November    Scorecard | 
| v |  New South Wales (H) | |
- Queensland won the toss and elected to bat
- Points: New South Wales 6, Queensland 0
- First class debut: Adam Zampa (New South Wales)
January 2013
[edit]| 24–27 January    Scorecard | 
| v |  New South Wales (H) | |
- New South Wales won the toss and elected to field
- Points: New South Wales 2, Western Australia 0
- First class debuts: Ashton Agar (Western Australia) and Hilton Cartwright (New South Wales)
| 24–27 January    Scorecard | 
| v |  South Australia (H) | |
- Victoria won the toss and elected to bat
- Points: South Australia 6, Victoria 2
- First class debut: James Muirhead (Victoria)
February 2013
[edit]| 4–7 February    Scorecard | 
| v |  Queensland (H) | |
- Queensland won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Western Australia 6, Queensland 2
| 6–9 February    Scorecard | 
| (H) Tasmania   | v | |
- Tasmania won the toss and elected to bat
- Points: New South Wales 2, Tasmania 0
| 18–21 February    Scorecard | 
| v |  Victoria (H) | |
- Queensland won the toss and elected to bat
- Points: Victoria 6, Queensland 0
- First-class debuts: Ronan McDonald and Dominic Michael (Queensland); Clive Rose (Victoria)
| 19–22 February    Scorecard | 
| v |  South Australia (H) | |
- New South Wales won the toss and elected to bat
- Points South Australia 6, New South Wales 0
- First-class debut: Alex Carey (South Australia)
| 21–24 February    Scorecard | 
| v | ||
- Western Australia won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Western Australia 6, Tasmania 2
March 2013
[edit]| 7–10 March    Scorecard | 
| v |  Queensland (H) | |
- Queensland won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Tasmania 6, Queensland 2
- First-class debut: Jordan Silk (Tasmania)
| 7–10 March    Scorecard | 
| (H) Victoria   | v | |
- Victoria won the toss and elected to bat
- Points: New South Wales 6, Victoria 0
- First-class debut: Gurinder Sandhu (New South Wales)
| 7–10 March    Scorecard | 
| (H) South Australia   | v | |
- Western Australia won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Western Australia 6, South Australia 2
| 14–17 March    Scorecard | 
| (H) Tasmania   | v | |
- Victoria won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Tasmania 6, Victoria 0
- First-class debut: Ryan Sidebottom (Victoria)
| 14–17 March    Scorecard | 
| v |  New South Wales (H) | |
- New South Wales won the toss and elected to field
- Points: New South Wales 6, South Australia 0
- First-class debut: Daniel Hughes (New South Wales)
| 14–17 March    Scorecard | 
| v | ||
- Western Australia won the toss and elected to field
- Points: Queensland 6, Western Australia 2
Final
[edit]Statistics
[edit]Most runs
[edit]| Player | Team | Matches | Innings | Not Out | Runs | HS | Average | 100s | 50s | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ricky Ponting |  Tasmania | 9 | 16 | 4 | 911 | 200* | 75.91 | 3 | 4 | 
| Mark Cosgrove |  Tasmania | 11 | 20 | 0 | 784 | 104 | 39.20 | 1 | 7 | 
| Chris Rogers |  Victoria | 10 | 17 | 2 | 742 | 131 | 49.46 | 3 | 1 | 
| Alex Doolan |  Tasmania | 10 | 18 | 1 | 715 | 149 | 42.05 | 1 | 4 | 
| Phillip Hughes |  South Australia | 6 | 12 | 0 | 673 | 158 | 56.08 | 2 | 3 | 
High scores
[edit]| Player | Team | Runs | Balls | Opponent | Ground | Date | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ricky Ponting |  Tasmania | 200* | 349 |  New South Wales | Hobart | 6 February 2013 | 
| Callum Ferguson |  South Australia | 164 | 342 |  Queensland | Adelaide | 23 October 2012 | 
| Ricky Ponting |  Tasmania | 162* | 242 |  Victoria | Melbourne | 23 October 2012 | 
| Moisés Henriques |  New South Wales | 161* | 229 |  Tasmania | Sydney | 26 September 2012 | 
| Phillip Hughes |  South Australia | 158 | 256 |  Victoria | Melbourne | 23 November 2012 | 
Most wickets
[edit]| Player | Team | Matches | Overs | Runs | Wickets | Average | BBI | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chadd Sayers |  South Australia | 9 | 353.0 | 889 | 48 | 18.52 | 6/49 | 
| Luke Butterworth |  Tasmania | 11 | 376.4 | 936 | 45 | 20.80 | 6/49 | 
| James Faulkner |  Tasmania | 10 | 282.4 | 793 | 39 | 20.33 | 5/23 | 
| Joe Mennie |  South Australia | 6 | 234.0 | 727 | 33 | 22.03 | 6/43 | 
| Michael Hogan |  Western Australia | 9 | 300.5 | 750 | 30 | 25.00 | 5/40 | 
Best bowling
[edit]| Player | Team | Figures | Overs | Opponent | Ground | Date | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Putland |  South Australia | 7/64 | 12.0 |  Victoria | Melbourne | 23 November 2012 | 
| Jackson Bird |  Tasmania | 6/25 | 20.0 |  Western Australia | Hobart | 25 November 2012 | 
| James Pattinson |  Victoria | 6/32 | 14.4 |  Queensland | Brisbane | 10 October 2012 | 
| Joe Mennie |  South Australia | 6/43 | 21.0 |  Tasmania | Adelaide | 24 January 2013 | 
| Luke Butterworth |  Tasmania | 6/49 | 21.0 |  South Australia | Adelaide | 9 October 2012 | 
References
[edit]- ^ "Sheffield Shield 2012/13 Table". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
