The competition, which was sponsored by a milk company and renamed the Pura Cup, will still have a presenting sponsor — a cereal company - but in a return to tradition, will now be referred to as the ‘Shield’.
Cricket Australia Chief Executive, James Sutherland, said: "Cricket Australia is passionate about bringing back the history and tradition of the Sheffield Shield".
The shield, bought with a donation to the states from Lord Sheffield in 1892, was contested for every season from then until 1999, when the then Australian Cricket Board decided to find a naming rights sponsor to compensate for the losses incurred annually by a competition played in front of sparse crowds.
