It was quite a week for Hayden Kerr. His 86 not out against Bankstown was his 24th score of fifty or more in First Grade (including three hundreds), and his 3-9 (so far) is his career-best return with the ball in Firsts. Obscure fact of the day: his strike rate in his innings of 86 not out was 49.42, which means this was the first time had ever scored fifty or more in Firsts with a strike rate below 50 runs per 100 balls. During the week, he hit 171 for ACT/NSW Country against South Australia in an exhibition 2nd XI game. It was his first century at this level, and during his innings he passed 1000 runs for ACT/NSW Country.
Damien Mortimer has passed 5000 runs in First Grade (1371 of them for Campbelltown-Camden). He’s the 273rd player to reach that milestone (for all clubs) since Grade cricket began in 1893-94.
Ben Joy’s first wicket on Saturday, Bankstown’s Nathan McAndrew, was his 502nd for the club, taking him past Terry Murphy (501) so that he became the seventh highest wicket-taker in the club’s history. His second wicket, Ben Taylor, drew him level with Tom Kierath on 503 as the club’s equal sixth highest wicket-taker.
When Josh Toyer dismissed Bankstown’s Matthew Dedes in Third Grade on Saturday, it was his 414th wicket for the club, taking him past Michael Culkoff (413) to become the 11th highest wicket taker in the club’s history.
Fourth Grade was washed out on Saturday. Which isn’t at all exciting, except that it means that this season, the first day has been washed out in all of their two-day games. That means that they will enter the finals without having played a single two-day game. Has this ever happened before? It has not. File it under “This has never happened, but Covid.”
Tom Foreman took 6-22 against Bankstown in Fifth Grade, his second five-wicket haul for the club, and first in Fifth Grade.