Ben Manenti joined Tom Morris after winning the Sheffield Shield Final - The New Ball (31.03.26)

0:00Ben Menenti, you've played in a World Cup for Italy a couple of months ago. Yeah, you're a shepherdshield winning cricketer again. How does that feel? He had spent a big few months. I loved the World Cup, it was an amazing experience and obviously I've said in a few interviews, I'm very grateful for letting me go to it, but to come back here and know there was a chance to go back to back and that hunger to go back to back was right amongst the groups. That was really easy to slide back in and go for that chase again. Do you think you were done at some stage yesterday when in this game when you were behind and before the McCandry-Carry partnership? I wouldn't say done, I knew we were up against it. Finals are funny things, you only need a score on the board and you can create some waves and I just thought if we could get a score on the board that we could make a dent in them or at least give it a real red shot. Obviously it didn't go ideally in the morning with me and Scoot going back to back and then the way Mackering cares about it was outstanding. There was enough, there was enough for 10 weeks in that pitch, it was a great cricket we could actually. We always

1:04knew once we got above 150 that we were going to be a shot. What is back to back mean to you? It's special mate, that probably hasn't sunk in yet. As a crickety, you watch a lot of shield cricket, a lot of great cricket. I remember watching this VIX team through the 2010s onwards and they were such a dominant force and watching how much they enjoyed it and speaking to the guys at their back end of their career that have missed out on shield, some guys have never won shield so to win two and to win them back to back it says a lot about this group and their culture we're creating. Awesome, thanks man, appreciate it.