It was a busy week for Hayden Kerr, who completed his first first-class match, against a Victorian team featuring several of the most unnecessary mullets seen for many seasons, with innings of 62 not out and 11 not out, as well as his first wickets (2-54 and 1-18). The following day, he played his second Marsh Cup 50-over match for NSW (also against Victoria), and hit his highest score in that competition, 43 (as well as his first sixes, two massive blows into the Ladies’ Stand from the bowling of Brody Couch). And, for good measure, he also improved on his best List A bowling figures, collecting 2-16, besides collecting his first Marsh Cup player-of-the-match award.
Liam Robertson has now scored precisely 7777 runs for the club, which is not a milestone exactly, but seems like the sort of thing people ought to know.
Jordan Gauci’s 55 not out against Northern District was his first half-century for the club, and his 31st score above fifty in Premier Cricket (including five centuries).
When Devlin Malone collected his first wicket on Sunday, he passed another leg-spinner, Chris Elder (190 wickets), to become the club’s 14th highest wicket taker in First Grade. Close followers of Devlin’s First Grade batting average will know that it has lurked in single figures for a while now, but Sunday’s majestic first-ball six, and the inelegant scrambled single that followed, have lifted it to precisely 10.00.
The T20 match against Western Suburbs was Dugald Holloway’s 100th First Grade match for the club.
The T20 match against Western Suburbs was Tim Cummins’ 100th match for the club, all of them in Firsts. When the First Test of the Ashes series begins in Brisbane, Tim will become the third brother of an Australian Test captain to play First Grade for University (after Jack Simpson, brother of Bob, and Danny Waugh, brother of Steve. And, yes, this is obscure, but gives us a break - we need to get creative when it rains).
During his innings against Western Suburbs on Sunday, Charlie Dummer passed 1000 runs in First Grade (162 of them for Campbelltown).
In the Poidevin-Gray match against Western Suburbs on Sunday, Darcy Manners (2-20) took his first wickets in Poidevin-Gray, and Hugo Fraval (1-14) took his first wicket for the club.
Former SUCC off-spinner Will Somerville won his fifth Test cap for New Zealand in the match against India at Kanpur.