MATCH REPORTS - ROUND 6

MATCH REPORT - 1ST GRADE VS NORTHERN DISTRICTS AT UNIVERSITY OVAL (DAY 1)

SUCC 9/313
92.0 overs

TP Cummins 101 (161)
H Kerr 57 (103)

VS

Northern Districts 0/2
2.0 overs

RR Pawson 4/55/19.0
TW Gray 4/84/22.0

A moving NAIDOC ceremony and a new, state of the art scoreboard with questionable tunes were the highlights of the pre-match festivities at Uni. 1. The Nash game was a farce with the top ‘5’ winning. This was exemplified by Morts scoring a goal which had him being referred to as Hansie Cronje for various reasons.

The returning skipper in Robbo won the toss and had no hesitation to bat. There was a bit of live grass early with Niv (31) getting through the new ball with a video montage expected to be released on Instagram by the end of the week. Hansie (28) took his Nash form into the start of his innings before being undone. At 4/86, Dos and TC were joined together with Dos shrugging off all footwear critics and looked set to go large before the bowlers targeted the said footwear on 57. Robbo came in and ‘ya ya’d’ his way to 28 before a couple of wickets fell.

At 7/245 the innings could have gone either way before a well compiled 38 from the resident Scotsman in Shane Cassell. TC ended making 101 to win a case from Robbo for the first century with the new scoreboard. This bet came with a little known ‘no-shoey clause’ too funnily enough. A maximum from Tatey that he didn’t even ‘get’ and a declaration gave us a few overs at the Rangers without impact.

All in all, a good day for the students who will be looking to grab 10 wickets on Saturday.

Tim Cummins

MATCH REPORT - 2ND GRADE VS NORTHERN DISTRICTS AT MARK TAYLOR OVAL (DAY 1)

SUCC 2/72
19.0 overs

C Litchfield 52* (63)
R Greaves 3/27/14.0

VS

Northern Districts 166
72.3 overs

JH Anderson 90 (162)
LP Fisher 1/18/3.0

Death, taxes and water under the covers at Waitara. A delayed start after a $16 toll ride up the Pacific Highway (Cheers Fullers) on a glorious day had the Scooby Doos optimistic following last week’s drubbing at the hands of Wests. City won Nash. Questions – asked. Answers – blank.

Skipper Hope called correctly at the toss for the third time on the bounce and elected The Books would have a bowl first on a green but hard wicket.

Right-Arm Wrong Leg Clarky struck LBW with his first ball yet again to absolutely nobody (excepting the opening sticks’) surprise and when Jackson Gwynne got in on the act with a Stuart Broad celebrappeal for one hitting middle halfway up, the Power Rangers were 2-30. The introduction of Popey’s straight breaks had the umpire’s Rexona (won’t let you down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_SoA59Ko8Q ) in the action again, 3-68 the score at lunch with energy and morale high.

A partnership was built by the Ben Trevor-Jones lookalike from ND’s, who it must be said looked a class above in his innings of 90, and Maskell in the middle order to leave the game delicately poised at 3-146. The Students continue to apply pressure from spin twins Hope and Haz, knowing sustained pressure would lead to chances.

The Uni boys needed a lift and the Regional Express duly obliged for take-off – one way ticket to destination Polesville thanks Captain. Rexxy captured our fourth consecutive LBW wicket (Get the record-book out on that Bonnell), before a rising length ball off a ridge was taken by a diving one-handed Walsh in the gully. Walshy refusing to add any mayonnaise to his plain wholemeal chicken rolls and just saving all spreads for in the field.

The Students then completely slammed the brakes on ND’s flow and claimed the final seven wickets for just 20 runs, bowling the Ranger’s out for a well below par 166. It truly was a mammoth spell from Rexxy, ably supported by cartel members Clark, Gwynne and Mitchell.

However, work was still to be done with an hour and 15 minutes left of play with the Toohey’s New sponsored crew warming the vocal chords and stacking the bin next to the canteen. Despite the loss of Fullerton and Hope, Charles Litchfield decided attack was the best form of defence.

Litch batted with extreme disdain and bludgeoned anything not on a good length to the fence, special mention for the back-away swat over extra cover for a one bounce four to bring up his half-century and the Students 2-72 at Stumps.

A very similar game after Day 1 went right to the wire last season, the Books know that the six points are far from secured against a quality ND’s attack and will be looking to get the job done this Saturday.

Max Hope

MATCH REPORT - 3RD GRADE VS SYDNEY CC AT RYDE OVAL (50 OVER)

SUCC 206
45.1 overs

H Storey 66
MJ Watts 3/20/10.0

DEF BY

Sydney CC 5/209
46.0 overs

AL Le Lievre 69*
T Mullen 3/34/10.0

The mighty 3’s took on the Sydney Tigers at Ryde Oval, on a day that was primed for some quality Nash. Old’s, so far undefeated and looking to go 3-0, welcomed back the Angry Bald Man, Josh Toyer for the first time this year. However, against all odds Young managed to score a goal. Shock. Young’s promptly put the bus into reverse, backed it up, pulled the handbrake up and parked it. This went on for the duration of the game, as Young’s were tasked with defending, long balls from deep hitting the wombat Jack Hill in the chest and feeding a pacey Hayden storey out wide. With 2 minutes to go, a miracle ball was thrown into the box from out wide, only for what can be described as a lebroneqsue slam dunk into the goal from Josh Toyer, to sale past a forlorn Leggie in goals. Questions were asked about the height of the goal. The referee panel solely seated by old’s, had none of it. 1-1 on the day, the Old’s retain the win from last week and go 3-0 up for the season. The young’s have a long road ahead. I can’t wait to become an old.

With the sun out and the deck looking like a beauty, Hilly won the toss and chose to bat. Hayden Storey got off to a flier as always, with some big hits and elegant striking of the ball, getting us to a 60-run opening partnership. After losing Hilly, Alex Shaw and Storey got us to a very commanding position at 1-90. From here though, we lost Storey (66) and then 5 wickets for 60 runs, with Alex Shaw (41) the only notable mention from the middle order. Full tosses our kryptonite. A 40-run partnership from tail enders Leggie and Maxy Shanahan, got us to a competitive score of 206.

Knowing that we had left a fair few runs out in the middle and that the deck was flat, we planned to come out hard and take a few early wickets. However, wickets were very hard to come by with Sydney starting off 0-50. Some tight bowling from Murray Watts, and Robbo kept us in the game, with them taking 3-20 and 1-27 off their 10 overs respectively. Playing with 10 fielders for most of the innings did not help us at all either, with Hilly dislocating his finger trying to take a catch of Murray’s bowling. With low margins of error, the bowlers put in a good shift trying to build pressure, however bowling both sides of the wicket proved to be punishing with one less fielder. Despite Hilly making a valiant return back onto the field towards the end of the innings, we could not do enough to get the last couple of crucial wickets, with the Tigers no.5 stick bringing it home for them with 4 overs to go.

A day where we were left to rue wasting our early commanding position with the bat and missing a few key chances in the field. As usual though, we go again next week against top of the table and undefeated Northern Districts, at fortress Pauls.  Young bucks to go 3-1.

Dash Ratnam


MATCH REPORT - 4TH GRADE VS SYDNEY CC AT ST PAUL’S OVAL (50 OVER)

SUCC 216
49.5 overs

S Anandarajah 61 (111)
N Barnet 3/23/10.0

DEF

Sydney CC 9/153
50.0 overs

S Meaker 42 (85)
NA Breen 3/37/9.0

After a scheduling snafu (read laziness) meant that the 4s boys were unreported last week (we won FYI, Wilko, Sanjay, Lew Ansell, Muz Miles all did well, cheers) your scribe is back with a summary of another comfortable victory to the Students which leaves us top of the table via the increasing puzzling better quotient rule.

A reasonably dry week (apart from Friday evening for a few members) presented us with a good pitch and a batting day, and the toss of the coin favoured Uni for the first time this year (audible celebration M Johns). Brayden and Clancy strode to the crease, however an early wicket led to Sanjay and Dill combining in what turned out to be a match-winning partnership. Faced with the unusual bowling attack of 7 seamers and 0 spinners, the pair were circumspect for the first 30 overs of their partnership, and as the 2nd drinks break approached we were meandering along at 2.5 runs an over (much to your scribe’s chagrin). This turned out to be temporary, and both Sanjay and Brayden put the foot down soon after to reach their half centuries. Their partnership ended up being a round 100, and some late order domination from Andrew Wilkinson (42 off 20) contributed to a strong total of 216 (Shez run out last ball, first time he been dismissed in 6 years apparently).

Bowling wise everyone did their work well, but it was the spin twins who were the standouts. Ned Barnet in particular was a class above, his 10 straight at a crucial time in the innings resulted in the Tigers never really being in the hunt. A classy fielding display and strong pressure from the bowlers proved to be too much and at the end of 50 overs the Students were 63 runs to the good.

A pleasing effort and 3 from 3 to start the year. Next week proves to be a sterner test, as we journey up to the rain belt to face the Rangers.

Smash

MATCH REPORT - 5TH GRADE VS SYDNEY CC AT CAMPERDOWN PARK (50 OVER)

SUCC 151
40.4 overs

J Chan 41
P Brazel 2/29/9.0

DEF BY

Sydney CC 7/218
50.0 overs

S Zafiropoulos 74* (74)
P Thakur 3/15/10.0

The 5s boys took on Sydney at Camperdown for round 3 in a one dayer, with newly appointed Jazz Rinka taking the reigns. Started off the day with half the boys and Cam competing in a game of nash, with a plethora of cases to be claimed. Jazz rocks up as you do when youve been given the captaincy, 15 minutes late and with plenty of excuses. 

The students bowled first on a slow Camperdown wicket, as we started off keeping it tight and snagging a few. Chris Kyle gets a direct hit on the non strikers end from point, to further the damage. We were well on top heading into the middle overs, having sydney 6/96. A 7th wicket 99 partnership, as well as a solid batting effort from Sydney’s number 6, had them dominate the last session, taking them to a total of 218. Pete and Cullen both went away with 2, having a solid day with the ball. 

The boys struggled with the bat with many of the top order falling for single digits. A solid stint of 41 by the young James chan, and a few handy bombs by Murray Miles (34) took us to a total of 151, but not enough to take the points over Sydney. 

MATCH REPORT - METRO BLUE VS WARRINGAH CC AT MIKE PAWLEY OVAL (50 OVER)

SUCC 7/189

A Rodrigues 52

DEF BY

Warringah CC 5/190

Kasmar 43
Norton 2/24

Metro Blue arrived to a green deck at Warringah’s Mike Pawley oval. The top four produced a positive start, dominated by aggressive running between the wickets on a big and slow outfield.  Aryan Rodrigues scored a calm and collected 52 at the top of the order, stabilising one end while a flurry of middle order wickets fell at the other. After his dismissal, it was up to the tailenders to pick up the scoring rate. An unbeaten 28-ball blitz by Ashton Taylor provided 48 crucial runs to the total, leaving the students with a defendable 186 to finish the innings.

With all the momentum Uni’s way, Ashton followed his antics with a fiery spell of opening bowling. Opening partner Tom Foreman made the early breakthrough, ripping through the Warringah’s opener in the second over of the innings. What followed was a tense battle between bat and ball, with scoring extremely difficult, but wickets equally hard to find. Sanjiv Khalko provided a couple of quick wickets following the first drinks break, leaving the game fairly evenly poised at the second interval. 

In the end, Warringah were able to get across the line with 5 wickets in hand, with the Metro Blue boys still hungry to collect their first victim of the season.

Mitch Cotton

MATCH REPORT - METRO GOLD VS MOSMAN CC AT BALMORAL OVAL (50 OVER)

SUCC 6/113
42.0 overs

H Cain 41*
Y Dalvi 2/16/6.0

DEF

Mosman CC 112
31.1 overs

C Calvert 22
J Lonergan 3/23/10.0

MATCH REPORT - POIDEVIN-GRAY VS BANKSTOWN CC AT UNIVERSITY OVAL (50 OVER)

SUCC 8/265
49.3 overs

B Mitchell 130* (118)
N Radhakrishnan 2/34/10.0

DEF

Bankstown CC 4/264
50.0 overs

M Momandi 83 (99)
B Pearson 2/43/9.0