First Grade
Toss
UNSW won the toss and elected to bat
Result
In progress
Game scores
UNSW 366
Notables
Will Sommerville 5 for 65
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As many will know, it is customary for Sydney University cricket sides to warm up for a day's play with a game of Nashball, being a hybrid of off-side touch football (when the ball is above the waist) and soccer (when the ball is below the waist). As the name would suggest, the game is played with a "Nashball," which bears remarkable similarities with a rugby union ball. In any event, for those players who spend most of their week at behind a desk punching out billable units, it can be quite a vigorous (and frankly exhausting) way to prepare for a cricket match. This being the case, Will Sommerville and Mark Faraday spent much of Saturday's game of nashball ostensibly 'marking' each other in the north-western corner of the Nashball field, thereby masking a gentlemen's agreement to conserve energy by limiting any running to short, ineffective decoy lines off the ball.
Conserving energy in Nashball would prove to be a wise move, particularly in Sommerville's case. When the real action (cricket) started, Sommerville would be required bowl 27 overs in temperatures exceeding 30 degrees for much of the day. This effort produced a remarkable return of 5 for 65, being Will's first 'five for' for Sydney University. It was little surprise that Will's best figures came in his natural habitat, east of ANZAC Parade, at UNSW's Village Green.
All other bowlers were as miserly as the conditions would permit, with any decent stroke skating across the firmest of outfields to the boundary.
Congratulations to UNSW's Charlie Wakin for a fine century, which underpinned UNSW's innings of 336, which is an impressive, but hopefully surmountable target for the Sydney University side.
Second Grade
Toss
Sydney University won the toss and elected to bat first
Result
In progress
Game scores
Sydney University 7/365, UNSW 1/15
Notables
Joshua Richards 110, Steve Hobson 102, Ben Larkin 43, Josh Toyer 41*
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Having spent 6 weeks locked in the Uni No 2 "Fortress" it was time for Uni 2's to head down the hill to the No 1 oval. The top six were in rampant Nash form, destroying the bowlers 1-0. Another toss won, and we had first use of a patchy but quite dead Uni No 1 deck. Billy thought he'd test out former Uni player Shash "the sherpa" Keshar with a difficult chance 2nd ball of the innings - sherps obliged and Uni were on the back foot. Logs and Hilly saw us through the first hour before departing ahead of lunch as the wicket was flattening. Enter Josh "cubans" Richards who blazed his first ton for the club with a series of cover drives and lofted drives over the bowlers head. His ton brought up by a glorious horn into the trees. Meanwhile Ben Larkin continued on GF vigal taking a lazy 25 pills to get off the mark, but his 43 was instrumental in a 130 run partnership. Uni then faltered so, not wanting to be outdone by his fellow South African, Steve Hobson began to slap the UNSW spinners to all parts. His hundred brought up from back to back horns to bring the innings to a close. This allowed Uni 8 overs to make some inroads - JT fresh for a run a ball 41 - bowled the UNSW centurion to leave USYD in a handy position.
Third Grade
Toss
Sydney University won the toss and elected to bat
Result
In progress
Game scores
Sydney University 8/322
Notables
Ash Cowan 52, Steve Birch 51, Jack Hollaway 47
Report
To be submitted
Fourth Grade
Toss
UNSW won the toss and elected to bat
Result
In Progress
Game scores
UNSW 259, Sydney University 0/8
Notables
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Fifth Grade
Toss
Sydney University won the toss and elected to bat first.
Result
In progress
Game scores
Sydney University 264, UNSW 0/18
Notables
Jarrod Waterlow 115
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First Grade T20
Toss
Sydney University won the toss and decided to bowl
Result
Sydney University won
Game scores
Penrith 145 def by Sydney University 6/149
Notables
Nick Larkin 64, Liam Robertson 39,
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