Damien Mortmer’s vital 61 against Mosman was his 25th innings over fifty for the club, including seven hundreds.
During his innings against Mosman on Saturday, Ryan Danne passed 3500 runs for the club in all grades. He now has 3513, and becomes the 49th player to reach 3500 runs for the club.
By dismissing Mosman’s Ashley Doolan and Dean Crawford with successive balls in First Grade, Ben Joy took two wicket in two balls for the third match in the succession. We imagine this qualifies as some kind of hat trick.
Andrew Hazard made his first appearance in Seconds for the club, and collected his best bowling figures (3-26) for the club.
Jack Hill passed 5000 runs for the club during Third Grade’s match against Mosman. He became the 25th player to pass this milestone for the club and passed Keith Pitty (5009) and Geoff Cooper (5015) to move up into 23rd place in the list of leading run-scorers for the club. His innings of 67 was his 29th score above fifty for the club (eight of them centuries).
During his innings in Third Grade against Mosman, Hayden Storey passed 1000 runs for the club in all grades.
In Third Grade’s win over Mosman, Max Shanahan, Shehan Canagasingham and Sanjay Anandarajah each made his debut in Thirds.
Brayden Dilley’s 85 in Fourth Grade against Mosman was his sixth half-century, and highest score, for the club.
Ned Barnet’s 45 against Mosman was his highest score in Fourth Grade.
Matthew Johns, with 3-19 against Mosman, collected his best bowling figures in Fourth Grade.
Thomas Lamont made his debut for the club in Fourth Grade’s match with Mosman.
Thomas Crawford’s 4-28 against Mosman was his best return with the ball in Fifth Grade.
In Fifth Grade’s match with Mosman, Joel Ritchie, Harish Jeyaruban, Mitchell Cotton, Ashton Taylor and James Chan all made their debut for the club.
And there were several club debuts in the Metropolitan Cup match against Mosman on Sunday: Max Kidman, Syed Tirimzey, Michael Pahos, Aryaman Sud and Samarth Shrivastava.
A couple of former Sydney University players are in action in the Plunket Shield in New Zealand: Will Somerville for Auckland and Cam Hawkins for Otago. Hawkins passed 500 first-class runs in the match against Northern Districts in which he scored 90 in the second innings, passing fifty for the fifth time in first-class matches and recording his highest score – against an attack that included no fewer than five New Zealand representatives (Neil Wagner, Tim Southee, Colin deGrandhomme, Scott Kuggeleijn and Ish Sodhi). Somerville moved onto Milestone Watch by collecting his 99th first-class wicket in the match between the Auckland Aces and the Central Stags.