Victoria fast bowler Scott Boland and Western Australia batsman Cameron Bancroft have both taken home trophies at their state award ceremonies to cap off a summer in which they both made their international debut for Australia

South Australia's seam bowlers Joe Mennie and Daniel Worrall were rewarded for breakout seasons with the Redbacks at the SACA state awards night in Adelaide on Friday

Victoria wasted little time rumbling to their second consecutive Sheffield Shield title and 30th overall, capitalising on a weakened South Australia attack to wrap up the final in little more than an hour on the last day of the final at Glenelg Oval

Using a Dukes ball in Australian domestic competition will not make much difference to the nation's Ashes chances unless it is possible to also import English weather and pitches to the other side of the world. That's the view of South Australia's coach J

Victoria bowling coach Mick Lewis is on his last warning from the Bushrangers after being fined $2,266 for ball tampering during the Sheffield Shield final

Future Sheffield Shield titles would only be awarded to the outright winner of the final, under one of several proposals currently being considered by Cricket Australia to revitalise the competition decider

Victoria took charge of the Sheffield Shield final on the fourth day, as they closed in on a small target

Jon Holland's three second-innings wickets cut through South Australia's top order to strengthen Victoria's hold on the Sheffield Shield final

Travis Dean hopes he has proven himself as something more than a hundreds-on-debut trivia question by constructing a fine century in the Sheffield Shield final