Hayden Kerr improved his career-best bowling figures in First Grade to 4-19 against Bankstown on Saturday. It’s also his best return with the ball in any grade with the club.
Dugald Holloway played his 200th Premier Cricket match in all grades (42 of them for Eastern Suburbs).
Damien Mortimer bowled. His single maiden over against Bankstown was his first spell for the club, in his 108th match. There are no accurate records of this, but we can’t find a player (excluding wicket-keepers) who has waited so long to bowl for the club. It’s only fair to point out that he does have seven wickets First Grade to his name, all taken for Campbelltown-Camden. In the spirit of name-and-shame, his victims were all top-order batsmen: Michael Wood, Jason Hughes, Ash Doolan (twice), Arjun Nair, Scott Rodgie and Greg Clarence.
Charles Litchfield’s 74 against Bankstown was his seventh score above fifty in Second Grade (including one century).
David Miller’s 50 against Bankstown was his 19th score of fifty or more in Second Grade (including one century). He now has 5299 runs for the club in all grades and on Sunday he passed Andrew Shaw (5294) to become the club’s 18th highest run scorer in all grades.
In Brayden Dilley’s first 83 matches for the club, he didn’t bowl a single ball, and it didn’t seem likely to on Saturday, when he began the Fourth Grade game against Bankstown keeping wicket. Somehow he got the ball into his hands and, sending down off breaks (apparently), he took 4-33. Naturally, this was (insert every bowling milestone you can think of) for him. We can’t decide whether the decision to let Dilley bowl was (a) brilliant intuitive captaincy by Ash Cowan, or (b) atrocious captaincy by Ash Cowan, for waiting 84 games to use him. Answers by text message to Ash Cowan.