{"id":786101,"date":"2026-07-08T03:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786101\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T03:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:19:10","slug":"pink-ball-match-headlines-mcg-sheffield-shield-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786101\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink-Ball match headlines MCG Sheffield Shield schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MCG will host three Sheffield Shield matches across the 2026\/27 season, including a day-night match between Victoria and Tasmania in the lead-up to the 150th Anniversary Test.<\/p>\n<p>The Pink-Ball match in February 2027 will be the first Shield day-night match at the MCG in more than a decade with the historic Test match between Australia and England played the following month.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this match, the MCG will also host two Shield matches between Victoria and Western Australia in November, and Victoria and Queensland in December.<\/p>\n<p>General public tickets for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcg.org.au\/news\/2026\/march\/international-cricket-schedule-confirmed-for-202627\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three international matches at the MCG for 2026\/27<\/a> are available now via <a href=\"https:\/\/premier.ticketek.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ticketek<\/a>, with Sheffield Shield arrangements to be confirmed closer to the matches.<\/p>\n<p>2026\/27 Sheffield Shield matches at the MCG<br \/>\nRound 4 &#8211; Victoria v Western Australia<\/p>\n<p>10:30am, November 11-14<\/p>\n<p>Round 6 &#8211; Victoria v Queensland<\/p>\n<p>10:30am, December 3-6<\/p>\n<p>Round 7 &#8211; Victoria v Tasmania<\/p>\n<p>2:30pm, February 8-11 (Day-night match)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MCG will host three Sheffield Shield matches across the 2026\/27 season, including a day-night match between Victoria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-786101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}