spell_check wrote:This will be the highest successful run chase in a Shield final, should it be achieved. There have been 5 higher 4th innings scores, but all losses.
Highest successful is when Victoria scored 2/239 to defeat NSW in the 1990/91 final
What puts this game at close to 50/50 is that there have been 32 Shield finals where there has been a 4th innings chase. Every run chase below 270 has been chased down (13 of them, the 239 above is the highest). Every chase above 270 has either been drawn (7 times) or lost (12 times). It's really how the pitch has played out which tips it our way, on face value.