Pura Cup

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The Pura Cup (formerly known as the Sheffield Shield) is the domestic first class cricket competition in Australia. Each of the state teams play in a round-robin series of home and away 4-day matches against every other team, followed by a final. A separate limited overs competition known as the ING Cup runs concurrently.

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The Pura Cup is without a doubt the strongest domestic first class competition in cricket today, underlined by the success of the Australian test team.

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First class cricket: First-class cricket matches are those of at least three days length in which both teams have two innings each, and which involve either international teams or the highest division of domestic competition. Generally, matches are eleven players a side but there have been exceptions to this....

ING Cup: The ING Cup is the current name of the domestic List A cricket (One-day/limited overs cricket) competition in Australia. Due to the immense success of the Australian ODI team the ING Cup is widely regarded as the world's best one day domestic competition....

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