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1900–01 Sheffield Shield season

Australian cricket tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2024
Entity authorityQ29025935 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1900–01 Sheffield Shield season was the ninth season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. Victoria won the championship. In January 1901, in the match between New South Wales and South Australia, New South Wales scored 918 runs in their first innings, with five batsmen scoring centuries.

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“1900–01 Sheffield Shield season” enters the record as australian cricket tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sheffield, Shield and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900, 1901—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sheffield, Shield and season.
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“1900–01 Sheffield Shield season” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sheffield, Shield and season provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q29025935. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1900 and 1901.

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This entry incorporates text from “1900–01 Sheffield Shield season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.