The NSW Men’s Cricket Team will begin their Marsh Sheffield Shield season at Cricket Central this week, an historic maiden First-Class match at the state’s home base – and the likely debut of a returning star.

The 12-player Blues squad, led by skipper Moises Henriques, will play Queensland, with the match starting at 10.30am on Wednesday and broadcast live on cricket.com.au, Foxtel and Kayo.

The squad includes three players that were not part of the Blues’ final Shield match of the 2022/23 season - Jackson Bird, who moved back home to NSW from Tasmania, Daniel Hughes, who has returned from the injury that ended his last summer early, and former Test star Kurtis Patterson, who has regained his spot in the 12.

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