{"id":932145,"date":"2026-10-18T03:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T03:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932145\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T03:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T03:06:13","slug":"shaw-to-lead-nsw-blues-shield-side-as-australia-a-players-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932145\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaw to lead NSW Blues\u2019 Shield side as Australia A players return home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-article__summary\">Lachlan Shaw will lead the NSW Blues\u2019 first-class team for this first time during this week\u2019s Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>Having led NSW to consecutive victories in the One-Day Cup last month, the 23-year-old Shaw has been entrusted with captaining the Blues\u2019\u00a0red-ball\u00a0team in the absence of Nic Maddinson, who remains in South Africa with the Test squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shaw, who will become the Blues\u2019 124th first-class captain, rejoins the NSW set-up having returned from the Australia A tour of India alongside teammates Sam Konstas, Josh Philippe, Liam Hatcher, Tanveer Sangha and Ben Dwarshuis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brock Fitton, Reiley Mark, Bryce Jackson, Charlie Stobo and Riley Kingsell drop out of the squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If selected, Jack Edwards will play his 50th Sheffield Shield match this week, a significant milestone for the all-rounder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NSW Blues\u2019 Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia commences at\u00a0the WACA\u00a0on Monday at 1.30pm\u00a0AEDT (10.30am local time). Australian fans can watch the action on cricket.com.au and Kayo Sports.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NSW Blues\u2019 Sheffield Shield squad vs Western Australia, October 19-22\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lachlan Shaw (c), Sean Abbott, Oliver Davies, Ben Dwarshuis, Jack Edwards, Liam Hatcher, Ryan Hicks, Sam Konstas, Kurtis Patterson, Josh Philippe, Will Salzmann, Tanveer Sangha, Jake Scott\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lachlan Shaw will lead the NSW Blues\u2019 first-class team for this first time during this week\u2019s Sheffield Shield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,83],"class_list":["post-932145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932145","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=932145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}