Most runs in a Shield season.

[Donny]

Query from a mate. "What's the record for batsmen in SS, for a season"

Batsman Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 0

SM Katich 11 17 1 1506 306 94.12 5 8 1
(NSW) - Pura Cup (in Australia), 2007/08
MG Bevan 9 18 3 1464 190 97.60 8 2 0
(Tas.) - Pura Cup (in Australia), 2004/05
MG Elliott 11 20 3 1381 182 81.23 7 3 0
(Vic.) - Pura Cup (in Australia), 2003/04
AC Voges 11 20 7 1358 249 104.46 6 5 1
(WA) - Sheffield Shield (in Australia), 2014/15
GN Yallop 10 18 0 1254 246 69.66 4 5 0
(Vic.) - Sheffield Shield (in Australia), 1982/83
MG Bevan 11 20 5 1240 203* 82.66 5 7 1
(NSW) - Sheffield Shield, 1993/94
WH Ponsford 6 8 0 1217 437 152.12 4 1 0
(Vic.) - Sheffield Shield, 1927/28
DM Jones 10 19 3 1216 324* 76.00 4 3 1
(Vic.) - Sheffield Shield, 1994/95
M Klinger 10 19 2 1203 255 70.76 4 4 1
(SA) - Sheffield Shield (in Australia), 2008/09
CL Rogers 10 17 0 1202 279 70.70 3 7 2
(WA) - Pura Cup (in Australia), 2006/07
CL Rogers 11 19 3 1195 159 74.68 5 5 0
(Vic.) - Sheffield Shield (in Australia), 2008/09

[Donny]

This season, Marcus Harris is the leading run scorer - with 864 @ 86.4 - with a possible 5 innings more. 7, if Victoria makes the final.

He's 201 runs ahead of Matt Wade (Ave. 62.7), in second, with Wade having played 3 more innings.

[K]

Who'd have guessed Matt Hayden is not on this list?

[Donny]

He's there. 1136 from just 6 matches. '93-'94 season.

Debuted for Australia in '94.

[K]

Okay, thanks. (Did he play a full SS season the previous season?) The popular memory is of him making mountains of first-class runs for a very long time and fans hanging signs at games like "Give Matt a Bat", etc.

[Donny]

Yep. That was his 7 centuries from just 6 matches at the start of the '83/4 season.

Began his Shield career in the '92/3 season.

Charged into the Test team, in '94. Hit 15 & 5 against SA and was dumped.

Played his next Test, nearly 3 years later. Played 6 Tests for 1 century (125) Was dropped after just 64 runs in his last 5 innings.

Another 3 year break. Recalled to the 'seniors' in 2000 and played till retirement in 2009.

Hit his 380 in '03.

[Pies4shaw]

Bill Ponsford stands out like a beacon in that list. 8 innings for 1,217 runs at 152.12. Even if you take out his 437, his average that season would still have been over 111 and the highest of that lot.

Not that it matters greatly but it seems he made slightly more runs the previous season (1,229 from 10 completed innings, with 6 centuries and 2 fifties).

From the wikipedia entry:

In first-class cricket, Ponsford scored 13,819 runs at an average of 65.18, as of 2009 the fifth highest complete career average of any player, worldwide.[113] Ponsford was not satisfied with merely making centuries; he strove to score 200 and more.[114] Arriving in big cricket a few years before Bradman, for a time Ponsford was considered the heaviest scorer in cricket history.[115] Jack Fingleton claimed that "The true perspective of Ponsford's deeds had barely dawned on the game when Bradman ruthlessly thrust him from public thought ..."[90]

Apart from Brian Lara, Ponsford is the only man to twice score 400 runs in a first-class innings and along with Bradman and Wally Hammond, he remains one of only three men to have scored four triple-centuries.[10] His 437 against Queensland is, as at 2009, still the fifth highest score in first-class cricket.[116]

Ponsford was known for batting in partnerships, sharing in five that amassed over 375 runs each.[10] Ponsford and his long-time partner, Woodfull, were known as "the two Bills", "Willy Wo and Willy Po" and "Mutt and Jeff" amongst other names.[117] Together, the pair made 23 century partnerships; 12 of these exceeded 150 runs.[10] Ponsford's other prolific partnership was with Bradman. In two Tests in 1934, the pair set records that still stand today:

The highest partnership for Australia in Test cricket and the highest for the second wicket: 451
The third highest partnership for Australia in Test cricket and the highest for Australia for the fourth wicket: 388
Cricket writer Ray Robinson said of the pair batting together, "[Ponsford] was the only one who could play in Bradman's company and make it a duet."[118]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ponsford