The extraordinary win over Manly on Saturday earned Sydney University the First Grade minor premiership for only the fourth time in the club’s history. The club will now contest the First Grade finals for the 16th time since finals were introduced to the competition in 1952-53.
Damien Mortimer’s outstanding 91 against Manly on Saturday was his 41st innings above fifty in First Grade (including 8 centuries). During his innings, he passed 600 runs for the season (for the sixth time in his First Grade career), and he was appearing in his 300th Premier Cricket match in all grades (151 for University, 109 for Campbelltown, 21 for Bankstown and 19 for Wests).
Jordan Gauci’s 58 against Manly on Saturday was his 35th score of fifty or more in First Grade (including seven centuries).
Oli Zannino made his 100th appearance in Premier Cricket matches (including 55 for Gordon).
Against Manly on Saturday, Devlin Malone made both his 150th First Grade appearance and his 150th appearance for the club in all grades. He took his tally of wickets for the season to 64: there have only been four more successful seasons for a First Grade bowler in the club’s history. Peter James took 71 wickets in 1973-74; Jack Massie took 69 in 1913-14; Andrew Staunton took 65 in 2002-03; and Malone himself took 65 in 2018-19.
Kieran Tate had played 25 First Grade innings before Saturday, but on no previous occasion had he hit the first delivery he faced for six.
Charlie Dummer’s furious 67 against Manly in Seconds was his 29th innings of fifty or more in Premier Cricket (including three centuries). During his innings he passed 2000 runs for the club in all grades.
Charles Litchfield, with 53 against Manly in Seconds, passed fifty for the club for the 24th time (including seven centuries).
When Prakhar Sharma dismissed Manly’s Jacob O’Sullivan in Seconds on Saturday, he captured his 50th wicket for the club in all grades.
Henry Snyman’s 57 against Manly on Saturday was his first half-century in Third Grade.
The game against Manly was Jazz Rinka’s 100th match for the club in all grades. And it was Liam Coelho’s 50th match in Fourth Grade.
When Ash Cowan was adjudged lbw against Manly on Saturday, it was the 300th time he had been dismissed while playing for the club.
Ben Crawford hit 92 in the Metropolitan Cup qualifying final against Randwick-Petersham, which was the third time he’s passed fifty for the club (and the first time he’d failed to convert a half-century into a century).