MacRobertson Shield 2026 - Team Seeding

[<<] [>>] by Michael Town
13th July (The MacRobertson Shield)

The Team Seeding date for the 2026 MacRobertson Shield has arrived, and I can now announce the results.

Seed 1 2565.17 England
Seed 2 2484.33 USA
Seed 3 2466.50 New Zealand
Seed 4 2325.00 Australia

This means that the first round of Test Matches will be
England v Australia
USA v New Zealand

The teams have been seeded in descending order of the average dynamic grade of the six players most recently submitted by the countries to the WCF by the final submission date of 12 July UTC.

The dynamic grades were downloaded from the Association Croquet Grading System website (butedock.com/cgs/rank.php) at 16:00 UTC on 13th July 2026.

Australia - average dynamic grade = 2325.00
2182 Trevor Bassett
2222 Lachlan Berryman
2358 Stephen Forster
2461 Greg Hill
2400 Dwayne McCormick
2327 Stephen Pearce

England - average dynamic grade = 2565.17
2531 Mark Avery
2592 Jamie Burch
2619 James Death
2572 Robert Fulford
2488 Jack Good
2589 Samir Patel

New Zealand - average dynamic grade = 2466.50
2358 Greg Bryant
2586 Paddy Chapman
2435 Edmund Fordyce
2564 Logan McCorkindale
2460 Felix Webby
2396 Aaron Westerby

USA - average dynamic grade = 2484.33
2488 Thomas Balding
2641 Matthew Essick
2304 Kyle Maloof
2351 Stephen Morgan
2481 Ben Rothman
2641 Zack Watson

Countries and players are listed in alphabetical order.