Milestone Monday

Defeat to Randwick-Petersham in the grand final of the Kingsgrove Sports T20 competition meant that Sydney University finished as runners-up for the fifth time.

The T20 final against Randwick-Petersham was Tim Cummins’ 250th match in First Grade (111 for University and 139 for Penrith).  He has also passed 500 Premier Cricket dismissals in all grades.

When Devlin Malone removed Wests’ Afghan Test batsman Javad Ahmadi on Saturday, he claimed his 250th wicket in First Grade (35 of them for Sutherland).  He now has 218 First Grade wickets for University: on the weekend he passed Ben Joy (214) and Tom Kierath (216) to become the 11th highest wicket-taker for the club in Firsts.

His 80 against Western Suburbs was Nick Larkin’s 46th innings above fifty for the club, including 18 centuries.  His innings took him past St George’s Ray Flockton, Andrew Millican of Randwick, Test captain Syd Gregory and Parramatta’s Mark Wood, so that he’s now the equal 105th highest run scorer in the history of the First grade competition.

Dugald Holloway’s defiant 53 against Western Suburbs was his second half-century in First Grade.

The match against Western Suburbs on Saturday was Ryan McElduff’s 150th game in Premier Cricket in all grades (16 of them for Gordon). Ryan’s 4-16 against Randwick-Petersham on Sunday was a career-best performance with the ball in First Grade.

Henry Clark, with 26 against Wests in Second Grade on Saturday, took his tally of runs in all grades for the club to precisely 2500.

Ravi Wikramanayake has passed 2000 runs in Premier Cricket in all grades and for all his clubs (Sydney University, Campbelltown-Camden and Blacktown).

Rex Greaves didn’t do much wrong on Saturday: his 57 against Wests was his highest score and first fifty in Second Grade, his second fifty (and equal highest score) for the club, and followed his third four-wicket haul of the season (4-37).

Andrew Wilkinson’s second wicket against Wests on Saturday was his 200th for the club in all grades. 

Nicky Craze played his 100th match for the club in all grades.

During his innings against Wests in Thirds on Saturday, Tom Fullerton passed 1500 runs for the club in all grades.

During his strong all-round game against Wests in Thirds (34, 3 catches, 2-17), Andrew Hazard passed 500 runs for the club in all grades.

JP Gavan’s 44 against Wests in Fifths equalled his highest score for the club.

Evander Herbert returned his best bowling figures in Metropolitan Cup (4-23) against North-West Sydney.

Saarangan Arvind’s 59 against North-West Sydney in Metropolitan Cup was his fourth half-century for the club.

Milestone Monday

Sydney University has won the Sydney Thunder Conference in the Kingsgrove Sports T20 for the fifth time, and will face Randwick-Petersham in the Grand Final at University Oval this Sunday.

Liam Robertson’s matchwinning 73 not out in the T20 match against Parramatta was his highest score in the Kingsgrove Sports T20 competition.  He is now, with 1309 runs, the fourth-highest run-scorer in the history of the competition, behind Scott Rodgie (1774), Dan Smith (1512) and Adam Crosthwaite (1314).

Hayden Kerr’s epic 98 not out for the Sydney Sixers against the Adelaide Strikers was not only his own highest BBL score, but also the second-highest score ever made for the Sixers.  Hayden finished the BBL season with 25 wickets at 15.00, the second-highest tally in this season’s competition behind Peter Siddle (30), although it’s the highest number of wickets ever taken in a BBL season for the Sixers.

Damien Mortimer has passed 4000 runs for the club, all in First Grade.

Tim Cummins has passed 2500 runs for the club, all in First Grade.  His 65 against St George was the 23rd time he has passed fifty in First Grade (including three centuries).

Liam Robertson has passed 600 runs for the season.

The match against St George on Saturday was Charlie Dummer’s 50th in First Grade (including 10 for Campbelltown-Camden).

Charlie Cassell has passed 100 wickets for the club in all grades.

When he dismissed St George’s Sam Konstas on Saturday, Henry Clark took his 200th wicket for the Club in all grades.

Jack Hill, with 59 against St George on Saturday, passed fifty in Second Grade for the 11th time (three of them hundreds).

Ryan Danne, playing his 50th Second Grade match, passed fifty for the 12th time in Seconds (three of them centuries), scoring 52 against St George.

Nivek Tanner, with 51 against  St George in Thirds, recorded his fifth half-century for the club.

Luka Flannigan’ 5-51 against St George was his first five-wicket haul for the club and the second of hi Premier Cricket career.

Darcy Manners has passed fifty wickets for the club in all grades.

The exceptionally consistent Chris Roussos recorded his highest score for the club, with 81 not out against St George in Fourth Grade.  Chris, in his first season with the club, has passed 500 runs and has reached fifty five times.

Jazz Rinka’s 52 against St George was his second fifty in Fourth Grade.  He has made four of his five scores above fifty for the club this season, having scored only one in his first four seasons.

James Chan, with 51 against St George in Fifth Grade, hit his second successive half-century, and the third of his career with the club.

Tushar Sharma played his first match in Fifth Grade and collected his first wickets in that grade (3-35).

Yuvraj Dalvi hit his highest score (82) and third half-century for the club in the Metropolitan Cup match against Randwick-Petersham.

Reuben Kapoor hit his fourth half-century for the club (69) in the Metropolitan Cup match against Randwick-Petersham.

Jack Hennessy hit his fourth half-century for the club (74 not out) in the Metropolitan Cup match against Randwick-Petersham.

Dhairya Patel took his first wickets for the club in a spell of 3-17 against Randwick-Petersham in Metropolitan Cup.

Noah Bloch played his first match for the club in Metropolitan Cup against Randwick Petersham.

Milestone Monday

Sydney University has reached the Conference final of the T20 competition for the fifth time, after defeating Blacktown in the semi-final.

Nick Larkin has moved up four places on the list of all-time run-scorers in the First Grade competition.  He’s now in 168th place with 6186, having passed legendary sledger Brian Riley (6173), NDs stalwart Neil Howlett (6181) and former NSW opener Bill Donaldson (6184) over the course of the weekend.  And he took his 100th catch for the club in all grades.

Charlie Dummer has passed 1000 runs in First Grade for the club.

Liam Robertson has passed 500 runs for the season.  It’s the sixth time he has passed 500 runs in a First Grade season.  The match against Blacktown on Sunday was Liam’s 58th appearance in a finals match, which extends his own club record.

Tim Cummins’ diving catch from Caelan Maladay’s bowling on Sunday was his 500th dismissal in Premier Cricket.  He has now taken 422 catches and completed 78 stumpings across all grades and for both his clubs.

During his innings against Mosman in Seconds on Saturday, Jack Hill passed 5500 runs for the club in all grades, becoming the 18th player in the club’s history to reach that milestone.

Hayden Storey’s ferocious 64 from 36 against Mosman (60 in boundaries) was his second half-century in Second Grade.

Oliver Zannino has completed 100 dismissals behind the stumps (90 caught and 10 stumped) in all grades and for both his clubs.

Matthew Powys, with 74 against Mosman, passed fifty in Third Grade for the ninth time.

Nicky Craze passed two milestones during his 45 against Mosman on Saturday: 500 runs for the club in Thirds, and 4000 runs in all grades in Premier Cricket (including 1605 for Campbelltown-Camden).

Adam Sidhu, with 2-20 against Mosman in Thirds, collected his first wickets for the club.

Nivek Tanner played his 150th Premier Cricket match on Saturday (31 for Sydney University, 119 for UNSW).

Prakhar Sharma made his Third Grade debut against Mosman on Saturday.

Ash Cowan’s innings against Mosman on Saturday was his 300th for the club in all grades.

James Chan’s 52 against Mosman on Saturday was his second half-century for the club and his first in Fifth Grade.  During his innings he passed 500 runs for the club in all grades.

Oliver Fergusson returned his best bowling figures for the club (4-35) in the Metropolitan Cup match against Gordon on Sunday.

Alex Sidhu, with 74 not out against Gordon on Sunday, hit his second half-century for the club and took his average in Metropolitan Cup to 171.

Raveen Kathriarachchi’s 46 not out against Gordon in Metropolitan Cup was his highest score for the club.

Yuvraj Dalvi’s 69 not out against University of NSW in Metropolitan Cup was his highest score for the club.

Joshua Levitas’ 41 against University of NSW in Metropolitan Cup was his highest score for the club.

Milestone Monday

Ryan McElduff has become the most recent player to captain Sydney University in First Grade.

Oliver Zannino hit his highest First Grade score, 48 not out against University of NSW on Saturday.  In his two matches in the top grade so far, he has scored 81 runs without being dismissed.

Rex Greaves, with 4-18, returned his best bowling figures in Second Grade against University of NSW on Saturday.

Adam Sidhu’s 43 against University of NSW was his highest score in Third Grade.  Alex Sidhu’s 43 against University of NSW was his highest score in Fifth Grade.

Xavier Nath made his Fourth Grade debut against University of NSW and played an important role in the close victory, taking 2-31.

Raveen Ganesh (2-22) took his first Fourth Grade wickets in the match against University of NSW.

Tushar Sharma marked his Fourth Grade debut by recording his best bowling figures for the club (3-21).

Milestone Monday

Hayden Kerr has twice improved on his career-best bowling figures in the Big Bash League, following his 3-29 against Sydney Thunder with 4-32 against Perth Scorchers – during which he became the leading wicket-taker in the competition, one ahead of former SUCC fast bowler Tom Rogers.

Tim Cummins completed his 200th dismissal behind the stumps for the club when he caught Jake Fawcett from Dugald Holloway’s bowling on Saturday.  He now has 201 (174 caught, 27 stumped).

Kieran Tate is now the equal 30th-highest wicket-taker for the club.  On Saturday he drew level with Max Bonnell on 280.

Ryan McElduff’s 59 not out against Blacktown was his 12th half-century in First Grade.  He also held his 50th catch in Premier Cricket in all grades (7 of them for Gordon).

Ravi Wikramanayake made his First Grade debut against Blacktown (the club for which he played 34 times in Seconds).

Playing in his 67th match in Second Grade, Jack Hill hit 67 – his 10th score above fifty in Seconds (including three centuries).

Hugo Ikeda, with 3-23 against Blacktown, returned his best bowling figures in Second Grade.

Liam Coelho’s 55 against Blacktown was his first half-century in Third Grade.

Chris Roussos made his Third Grade debut against Blacktown, scoring 41.

Lewis Ansell made his Third Grade debut against Blacktown, taking his first wickets.

Oliver Fergusson, with 4-47, captured his best bowling figures for the club in the Metropolitan Cup game against Georges River.

Jack Hennessy’s 59 in Metropolitan Cup against Georges River was his third half-century for the club.

Reehan Shyamsundar took a career-best 6-20 against Western Suburbs in AW Green Shield, his first five-wicket haul for the club.

Tushaar Sharma, with 96 against Gordon, hit his first half-century in AW Green Shield, and his highest score for the club.

Milestone Monday

Against North Sydney, Damien Mortimer captained the First Grade side for the first time, in his 121st match for the side.  He also lost the team’s first toss of the season, after Tim Cummins had won ten straight.

Liam Robertson’s brutal 89 from 67 balls against North Sydney was his 28th innings above fifty in First Grade (including six centuries).  During his innings, he passed 8000 runs for the club in all grades, becoming only the sixth player (after Greg Mail, Ed Cowan, Ian Moran, Nick Larkin and Adam Theobald) to reach that milestone for the club.

Ryan McElduff’s match-winning 74 not out against North Sydney on Saturday was his 11th half-century in First Grade.  During his innings he passed 3000 runs for the club in all grades.

Oli Zannino made his First Grade debut against North Sydney on Saturday.  His first innings in the top grade was an extraordinary 33 not out from only 16 balls, with three 6s.

Kieran Tate is now the equal 31st-highest wicket-taker for the club.  On Saturday he drew level with Alastair Little on 279.

Hayden Storey, with 70 against North Sydney, hit his 12th score above fifty for the club (including three centuries), but his first in Second Grade.

Ryan Danne’s match-winning 53 not out in Second Grade against North Sydney was his 23rd innings above fifty for the club (including four centuries).

During his spell of 2-26 against North Sydney on Saturday, Andrew Hazard took his 50th wicket in Second Grade (44 of them for Penrith).

Daniel Gauci made his Second Grade debut for the club (having played two matches in Seconds for Blacktown).

Sanjay Anandarajah’s tidy spell against North Sydney in Second Grade included his 50th wicket for the club in all grades.

Brayden Dilley, with 85 not out against North Sydney, hit his tenth half-century for the club but his first in Third Grade.

Matthew Powys hit 50 against North Sydney in Third Grade, his 15th score of fifty or more for the club (with three centuries).

Tom Fullerton hit 70 not out against North Sydney in Third Grade, his 11th score of fifty or more for the club (with one century).

Darcy Manners made his Third Grade debut against North Sydney and marked the occasion by taking 5-37, his first five-wicket haul for the club.

Hugo Fraval made his Third Grade debut against North Sydney.

Flinders Zhang-Langley made his Fourth Grade debut against North Sydney.

During the Fourth Grade match against North Sydney, Morris Fredriksson passed fifty dismissals for the club in all grades.

Saarangan Arvind, with 75 against North Sydney in Fifth Grade, recorded his third half-century, and highest score, for the club.

Yuvraj Dalvi made his Fifth Grade debut against North Sydney.

Jack Manson-Lill made his Fifth Grade debut against North Sydney, taking his first wickets (2-26).

Reuben Kapoor, with 75 not out in Metropolitan Cup against Randwick-Petersham, recorded his second half-century, and highest score, for the club.

Alex Sidhu scored 97 in Metropolitan Cup against Randwick-Petersham, his first half-century for the club, and followed by taking his first wicket for the club.

Joel Ritchie, with 71 in Metropolitan Cup against Randwick-Petersham, recorded his first half-century for the club, and followed with his first wicket for the club.

Ravi Sony-Abayakoon made his debut for the club in the Metropolitan Cup match against Randwick-Petersham and took his first wickets (2-16).

Jashanveer Singh, with 3-25 against Mosman in Metropolitan Cup, returned his best bowling figures for the club.

Joshua Haugh, with 3-52 against Mosman in Metropolitan Cup, returned his best bowling figures for the club.

And there have been plenty of club debuts in the AW Green Shield team: welcome to Lukas Boorer, Evander Herbert, Samuel Smith, Oscar Sinclair and Declan Fitzpatrick.

Milestone Monday

Sydney University finished the preliminary rounds of the Kingsgrove Sports T20 competition in first place in the Sydney Thunder Conference, and will now progress to the conference semi-finals on 9 January.

Nick Larkin’s 52 not out (from 43) for the Melbourne Stars against Sydney Thunder was his fifth half-century in the BBL.  He was also caught twice from deliveries called no-ball for height, which may not be a record, but doesn’t happen every day.

Jordan Gauci’s 105 against Hawkesbury on Saturday was his first century for the club, and his sixth in First Grade.  During his 33 not out against Northern District on Sunday, Jordan passed 4000 runs in First Grade (244 for University, 2201 for Blacktown, 1175 for Hawkesbury and 394 for Campbelltown).

Charlie Dummer recorded his highest First Grade score, 90 against Hawkesbury on Saturday – his eighth half-century in Firsts.  He now has First Grade scores of 88, 89 and 90 to his name.  During his innings he passed 1500 runs for the club in all grades. 

The match against Hawkesbury on Saturday was Tim Cummins’ 300th Premier Cricket match in all grades, and he also passed 4500 runs in First Grade.

During the match against Hawkesbury on Saturday, Dugald Holloway passed 1000 runs in First Grade (19 of them for Easts).  The following day, during his 29 against Northern District, he passed 1000 First Grade runs for the club.

The match against Hawkesbury on Saturday was Devlin Malone’s 100th First Grade appearance for the club.  He joined Dave Hanlin (who opened the bowling for NSW in the late 1940s) as the 11th highest wicket-taker for the club in Firsts when he took his 197th wicket.  He also, on the same day, batted for the 100th time in Premier Cricket in all grades.  On Sunday, his match-winning spell of 3-9 in the T20 match with Northern District included his 200th First Grade wicket for the club.  He becomes the 13th player to reach that milestone for the club.  Devlin’s 3-9 against Northern District was the least expensive four-over spell for the club in the T20 competition since 2016-17, when Devlin took 3-9 from four overs against Penrith. Devlin was, however, some way short of the least expensive analysis ever recorded for University (or anyone else) in the competition, which was Tom Kierath’s 4-2-5-2 against Mosman in 2012-13.

The T20 match against Northern District on Sunday was Hayden Kerr’s 150th match for the club in all grades.

Ravi Wikramanayake’s 111 against Hawkesbury in Seconds on Saturday was his first century in Premier Cricket.  During his innings he passed 1000 runs in Second Grade (763 of them for Blacktown).

Kieran Tate took his 276th wicket for the club on Saturday, joining Jim Kazaglis as the 32nd highest wicket-taker in the club’s history.  He passed Kazaglis the following day, picking up his 277th wicket during his nerveless final over in the T20 match against Northern District.

Lewis McMahon collected his career-best bowling figures, 6-16 against Hawkesbury in Third Grade.  It was his seventh five-wicket haul for the club, six of which have been in Thirds.

Josh Toyer’s 71 not out against Hawkesbury was his fourth half-century for the club, but his first in Third Grade.

Ned Barnet and Hugo Ikeda each took his first wicket in Third Grade against Hawkesbury on Saturday.

During his innings of 34 against Hawkesbury on Saturday, Ash Cowan passed Craig Tomko (6366 runs) and Alan Crompton (6373) to become the ninth-highest run-scorer in the club’s history.  His tally now stands at 6395.

Jazz Rinka’s 76 against Hawkesbury on Saturday was not only his highest score and first half-century in Fourth Grade, but also exceeded his aggregate (74) from his previous 18 innings in Fourths.

Chris Roussos played his third innings for the club on Saturday, and scored his third half-century.  His 71 against Hawkesbury was his highest score for the club.

Lewis Ansell passed 500 runs for the club in all grades.

The club’s two Metropolitan Cup sides faced each other on Saturday.  Henry Cain (3-39) collected his best bowling figures for the club for Gold at the expense of Blue.  Tushar Sharma (56 not out) hit his second half-century and highest score for the club, while Jack Manson-Lill (5-30) returned his first five-wicket haul for the club.  Raphael Giles’ 69 was his second half-century for the club.

Milestone Monday

Hayden Kerr took his first BBL wickets in the Sydney Sixers’ win over the Melbourne Stars on Sunday night.  He dismissed Peter Nevill and Hilton Cartwright with the last two balls of his first over, and was promptly removed from the attack to avoid the risk of him taking a hat-trick.

Damien Mortimer recorded his 34th First Grade innings above fifty on Saturday (68 against Sutherland), including eight centuries.  During his innings he passed 8000 runs in Premier Cricket in all grades and for all his clubs.  He also moved past Dr HO Rock (3899) to become the club’s tenth highest run scorer in First Grade.  Dr Rock, as everyone remembers, scored 758 runs at an average of 94.75 in his six first-class games between 1924 and 1926, and is the only batsman to have a higher Sheffield Shield average than Bradman.

When Devlin Malone removed Daniel Rixon on Saturday, with a ball best described as “flighted”, it was his 350th Premier Cricket wicket in all grades.

During his innings against Sutherland on Saturday, Liam Robertson passed 5000 runs in First Grade.  He’s the fifth batsman to pass this milestone for the club, and the 282nd player to reach 5000 runs in the history of the First Grade competition.  His 67 against Campbelltown on Sunday was his 25th score above fifty in Firsts (including six hundreds) – and he also held his 100th catch in First Grade.

Dugald Holloway took his 150th First Grade wicket when he bowled Sutherland’s Will Straker on Saturday.

Tim Cummins, with 76 not out against Sutherland on Saturday, passed fifty in First Grade for the 22nd time (including three centuries).

Charlie Litchfield, with 25 not out against Sutherland on Saturday, recorded his first runs in First Grade.

The match against Sutherland on Saturday was Charlie Dummer’s 50th for the club in all grades.

Caelan Maladay, with 4-41 in First Grade against Sutherland, returned his best bowling figures for the club.

Ryan Danne’s 74 against Sutherland (in his 50th innings in Seconds) on Saturday was his 22nd score above fifty for the club, including four hundreds.

During his innings of 28 against Sutherland in Third Grade on Saturday, Brayden Dilley passed 2000 runs for the club in all grades.  His opening partner, Matthew Powys, also passed 2000 runs in all grades.  We’re going to go out on a limb here and guess that this is the first time a pair of openers have both passed 2000 runs for the club in the course of the same innings.

Andrew Hazard’s 71 against Sutherland was his highest score for the club and his first half century in Third Grade.  He followed up with 5-23, his first five-wicket haul for the club and his third in Premier Cricket overall.

Daniel Gauci’s 87 against Sutherland was his highest score for the club and his first half century in Third Grade.  During his innings he passed 1000 runs in all grades in Premier Cricket (915 of them for Blacktown).

Ned Barnet made his Third Grade debut, hitting 42 not out against Sutherland.

Against Sutherland on Saturday, Josh Toyer passed 500 runs in Third Grade.

The Third Grade match against Sutherland on Saturday was Liam Coelho’s 50th for the club in all grades.

Chris Roussos made his Fourth Grade debut for the club against Sutherland (having played once in Fourths for Mosman) and recorded his second successive half-century for the club, hitting 56.

Darcy Manners collected his best bowling figures in Fourths (4-38) against Sutherland on Saturday.

In the Fourth Grade match against Sutherland, Hugo Fraval scored his first runs for the club and returned his best bowling figures for the club (3-41).

Tom Foreman made his Fourth Grade debut on Saturday against Sutherland, and took his first wickets in that grade.

Reuben Kapoor made his Fifth Grade debut, hitting 68 against Sutherland.

Not a bad day out for Jazz Rinka against Sutherland in Fifth Grade.  His 112 not out was his first century for the club.  Besides which, he passed 500 runs for the club and, with the ball, collected his 100th wicket for the club.

Saarangan Arvind claimed his best figures in Fifth Grade (4-25) against Sutherland on Saturday.

In Fifth Grade’s match against Sutherland, Shubham Kaushik scored his first runs for the club and claimed his first wicket for the club.

Xavier Nath made his Fifth Grade debut on Saturday, against Sutherland.

Flinders Zhang-Langley made his Fifth Grade debut on Saturday, against Sutherland.

Reehan Shyamsundar made his debut for the club in the Metropolitan Cup match against Warringah and took 3-17 from his 10 overs.

Milestone Monday

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.

Milestone Monday

Hayden Kerr made his first-class debut on Saturday, in the Shield match between New South Wales and Victoria at the SCG, marking the occasion with an outstanding innings of 62 not out.

In the First Grade match against Randwick-Petersham on Saturday, Tim Cummins completed five dismissals behind the stumps for the fifth time in his career with the club and the sixth time in his First Grade career overall (three of them against Randwick-Petersham).

The match against Randwick-Petersham on Saturday was Dugald Holloway’s 100th match in First Grade matches (one of which was for Eastern Suburbs).

Damien Mortimer (with 3868 runs) has passed Scott Henry (3850) to become the club’s 11th highest run scorer in First Grade.

Charles Litchfield passed 3000 runs for the club during his 57 against Randwicl-Petersham – his seventh half-century in Second Grade.

Ravi Wikramanayake passed fifty for the third time in as many innings this season, with 57 against Randwick-Petersham.  During his innings he passed 1500 runs in Premier Cricket (including 145 for Campbelltown and 1194 for Blacktown).

Playing in his 50th match for the club, Sanjay Anandarajah returned his best bowing figures in Second Grade (3-14) against Randwick-Petersham on Saturday.

Hugo Ikeda made his Second Grade debut against Randwick-Petersham on Saturday, and claimed his first wicket.

Peter Brazel made his Third Grade debut in the match against Randwick-Petersham on Saturday.

Brayden Dilley’s 66 against Randwick-Petersham was his seventh half-century in Fourth Grade (and ninth for the club in all grades).

Ned Barnet, with 66 not out against Randwick-Petersham, recorded his first half-century in Fourth Grade (and second in all grades).  During his innings, he passed 500 runs for the club.

Prakhar Sharma returned his best Fourth Grade bowling figures (3-19) against Randwick-Petersham on Saturday.

Darcy Manners made his Fourth Grade debut for the club against Randwick-Petersham on Saturday, and took his first wickets (2-41).

Chris Roussos made his debut for the club in Fifth Grade against Randwick-Petersham, scoring 64 not out.

Joshua Gavan made his debut for the club in Fifth Grade against Randwick-Petersham, scoring 44.

Flinders Zhang-Langley made his debut for the club in Fifth Grade against Randwick-Petersham.

Alex Sidhu made his debut for the club in Fifth Grade against Randwick-Petersham.

Jazz Rinka’s 51 against Randwick-Petersham on Saturday was his third half-century for the club, but his first in Fifth Grade.

Milestone Monday

Charlie Dummer’s rapid 89 against Fairfield was his highest score, and seventh half-century, in First Grade.

Nick Larkin played his 200th First Grade innings on Saturday, and his matchwinning 70 not out was the 45th time he’s reached fifty (including 18 centuries).  His 83 runs over the weekend took him past Ian Fisher (6900) and Manly’s Les Gwynne, into 114th place on the list of all-time First Grade run scorers.

Devlin Malone took his 200th Premier Cricket wicket for the club (185 in Firsts, 15 in Poidevin-Gray) when he dismissed Fairfield’s Raveesh Srivastava on Saturday.  The next day, Blacktown’s Smit Doshi became his 186th First Grade wicket for the club. With took him level with 1920s captain Jim Garner and former Test all-rounder Roy Minnett as the club’s 15th highest wicket-taker in top grade.  He then passed Garner and Minnett when he bowled Jacob Wood to move to 187 wickets.

Caelan Maladay, with 2-27 against Fairfield in Firsts, took his first wickets for the club.

Kieran Tate’s two wickets in First Grade on Saturday brought him level with Jock Baird as the club’s 34th highest wicket-taker (on 264).  He passed Baird on the Sunday when he dismissed Blacktown’s Eknoor Singh.

Dugald Holloway, with 5-24 against Blacktown on Sunday (including three in a spectacular first over, and four wickets in 5 balls) claimed his best bowling figures for the club.  It was his fourth five-wicket haul for the club and his second in First Grade.

During his innings against Blacktown on Sunday, Hayden Kerr passed 4500 runs for the club in all grades.

Ravi Wikramanayake, with 57 not out against Fairfield in Seconds, posted his second half-century in as many innings for the club.  It was also the first time in 67 Premier Cricket innings (65 of them with Campbelltown and Blacktown) that he has remained not out.

During his 41 not out against Fairfield on Saturday, Ryan Danne passed 1500 runs in Second Grade.

Rex Greaves, with 4-26 against Fairfield, returned his best bowling figures in Seconds.

Lewis Ansell played his 50th match in all grades (and marked it by taking 2-8 from 7 overs against Fairfield in Fourths).

Hugo Fraval made his debut for the club in the Fourth Grade match against Fairfield.

Shehan Canagasingham’s 4-25 against Fairfield included his 50th wicket in Fourth Grade.

Illawarra product Hugo Ikeda made his debut for the club on Sunday, and immediately grabbed his first five-wicket haul, taking 5-18 against Blacktown in Poidevin-Gray.

Daniel Gauci made his debut for the club on Sunday in the Poidevin-Gray match against Blacktown.

Milestone Monday

Caelan Maladay and Jordan Gauci made their first appearances for the club in the First Grade match against Sydney.

Liam Robertson marked his 200th innings in First Grade by scoring 51 against Sydney, his 24th score above fifty (including six centuries).

Tim Cummins has passed 5500 runs in all grades in Premier Cricket (2222 for Sydney University and 3284 for Penrith).

Ryan McElduff, with 3-29 against Sydney, returned his best bowling figures in First Grade.

Ravi Wikramanayake made his debut for the club in the Second Grade match against Sydney and scored his first half century for the club (51).  It was his fifth half-century in Seconds, after four for Blacktown.

Luka Flannigan made his debut for the club in the Second Grade match against Sydney, and took his first wickets (2-54).

Henry Clark collected his 50th wicket in Second Grade when he dismissed Sydney’s former NSW player, Daniel Smith, on Saturday.

Hayden Storey made his debut in Second Grade against Sydney.

And congratulations to former Sydney University off-spinner Will Somerville, who has been named in the New Zealand Test squad to tour India.

Milestone Monday

First Grade enters the finals in second place on the competition ladder.  This will be the fifteenth time University has played in the First Grade finals, and the fourteenth time in the last 21 seasons.

Liam Robertson’s 68 against Manly was his 23rd score in First Grade above fifty (including six centuries), and his 43rd in all grades (including seven centuries).

The First Grade match against Manly was Ben Joy’s 250th appearance for the club in all grades.  Ben Bryant was his 504th wicket for the club, taking him past Tom Kierath to become the sixth highest wicket-taker for the club.

During his innings against Manly on Saturday, Charles Litchfield passed 1000 runs in Second Grade.

On Saturday, Ryan Danne passed Rob Crittenden (3664) to move up to 45th on the club’s list of run-scorers in all grades.

Hayden Storey, with 51 against Manly, hit his 11th score above fifty for the club (including three centuries).  During his innings he passed 500 runs for the season and 1500 runs for the club in all grades.  He’s the only player from any club to pass 500 runs in Thirds this season.  It’s only the tenth time a player has reached 500 runs in a Third Grade season for University.

Fourth Grade enters the finals in third place.  This will be Fourth Grade’s 19th trip to the finals.

Peter Brazel, with 6-14 against Manly in Fourths, returned his best bowling figures, and second five wicket haul, for the club.

Kevin Jacob’s 50 not out in Fifth Grade against Manly was his second half-century in Fifths, a grade in which he is still yet to be dismissed.   During his innings he passed 1000 runs for the club in all grades.

Sydney University Gold reached the qualifying finals of the Metropolitan Cup.  Unfortunately, the match with Mosman was entirely washed out, so that’s as far as their season will go. 

Milestone Monday

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.

Milestone Monday

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.

Milestone Monday

During his innings of 44 against St George on Saturday, Damien Mortimer passed 700 runs for the season (the fourth time he has done this in five seasons with the club).  He took his tally of First Grade runs for the club to 3696, passing the NSW opening batsman Rod Davison (3684) to become the club’s 12th highest run-scorer in First Grade.

During his innings against St George on Saturday, Tim Cummins passed 500 runs for the season.  It’s the fourth time in as many seasons with the club that he has reached 500 runs.  When he caught St George’s Kurtis Patterson, he completed his 400th catch in Premier Cricket (in all grades for Sydney University and Penrith).

Nivethan Radhakrishnan took his 50th wicket in First Grade when he dismissed St George’s Matthew Hopkins on Saturday.

When Ben Joy dismissed St George’s Kurtis Patterson on Saturday, he took his 501st wicket for the club, drawing level with Terry Murphy as the club’s seventh-highest wicket taker.

Nivek Tanner’s 52 not out in Second Grade against St George was his fourth half-century for the club and his first for the club in Seconds.  It was his third fifty in Seconds overall, as he passed fifty twice for University of NSW.

During his innings against St George on Saturday, Jack Hill passed Ash Cowan (2569 runs) to become the club’s all-time leading run-scorer in Third Grade.  He now has 2603 runs in Thirds, and his 56 not out was his 18th score of fifty or more in that grade (including four centuries).

Andrew Wilkinson, with 4-16 against St George, returned his best bowling figures in Third Grade.  Having waited ten seasons to get to Thirds, he now has 14 wickets in that grade at an average of 8.64. 

Dash Ratnam dismissed six batsmen behind the stumps in Thirds on Saturday, five caught and one stumped.

The match against St George on Saturday was Josh Toyer’s 50th game in Third Grade.

Matthew Powys, with 54 not out in Fourth Grade, hit his 13th score above fifty for the club (including two centuries).

Peter Brazel, with 5-26 against St George on Saturday, took his second five-wicket haul for the club and his first in Fourth Grade.

Morris Fredriksson, with 58 against St George in Fifth Grade, hit his first half-century for the club.

Tom Foreman, with 4-19 against St George, recorded his best bowling figures in Fifth Grade.

Milestone Monday

Liam Robertson appeared in his 56th finals match for the club when he led First Grade in the Limited Overs qualifying final against St George.  This sets a new record for the club: Liam previously shared the record of 55 with Tom Kierath.

The First Grade match against Randwick-Petersham was Charlie Dummer’s 100th Premier Cricket game (across three clubs).

During the First Grade match against Randwick-Petersham, Nivethan Radhakrishnan passed 2500 runs in Premier Cricket (for four clubs and in all grades). The qualifying final against St George was his 50th First Grade match, and he reached 1000 runs in First Grade.

Ryan McElduff passed 1500 runs in First Grade during the match against St George on Sunday.

The First Grade match against Randwick-Petersham was Devlin Malone’s 100th First Grade appearance (including 14 for Sutherland).  His 8 not out took his First Grade batting average for the club above 10 for the first time since 2017 (where it remained for just 24 hours).

After 12 rounds of the competition, Ben Joy remains the highest wicket-taker in First Grade, with 34, five ahead of Penrith’s Ryan Fletcher.

Sanjay Anandarajah, with 3-22 against Randwick-Petersham, recorded career-best bowling figures in Second Grade.

After 12 rounds of the competition, Henry Clark remains the highest wicket-taker in Second Grade, with 36, eight ahead of the closest two bowlers.

Josh Toyer’s second wicket against Randwick-Petersham on Saturday was his 100th wicket in Third Grade.  He remains (with 221) the club’s highest ever wicket-taker in Seconds, and he has now taken 415 wickets in all grades, passing Michael Culkoff (413) to become the 11th highest wicket taker in the club’s history.

Cullen Hathurusinghe made his Third Grade debut in the match against Randwick-Petersham, and claimed his first wicket in Thirds.

Nivek Tanner has now scored 2222 runs in Premier Cricket.  Which is not significant in any way, but how often do you see it?

Prakhar Sharma enjoyed the Fifth Grade match against Randwick-Petersham, following his highest score for the club (21 not out) with his first five-wicket haul (5-14).

Tom Foreman, with 3-7 against Randwick-Petersham, collected his first wickets in Fifth Grade.

In the Fifth Grade match against Randwick-Petersham, Zohirul Islam made his 100th appearance for the club.

Lachlan Anderson, with 4-14 against Penrith in Metropolitan Cup, recorded his best bowling figures for the club.

Willis Gunasekera took 5-40, his first five-wicket haul for the club, in Metropolitan Cup’s extraordinary 2-run victory over Mosman.

Milestone Monday

Ben Joy took his 500th wicket for the club on Saturday, when he dismissed Randwick-Petersham’s Daya Singh in First Grade.  He has taken 207 in First Grade, 207 in Seconds, 22 in Thirds, 19 in Fourths, 7 in Fifths and 38 in Metropolitan Cup.  He becomes the eighth bowler to take 500 wickets for the club since the introduction of Grade cricket in 1893, the others being James Rodgers (869), Mick O’Sullivan (807), Chris McCrae (549), Tim Ley (545), Michael Farrow (528), Tom Kierath (503) and Terry Murphy (501).  In the years before Grade cricket, Tom Garrett (622), Monty Faithfull (619) and Joseph Coates (501) also passed 500 wickets.

Liam Robertson took his 200th wicket in all grades for the club when he dismissed Randwick-Petersham’s Matthew Everett on Saturday.  Liam has 133 wickets in Firsts, 41 in Seconds, 25 in Poidevin Gray and one in Green Shield.  This season, Liam has passed both 7500 runs for the club and 200 wickets; he is only the third player to pass both milestones for the club, after Greg Mail and Ian Moran.

Tim Cummins held his 150th catch for the club on Saturday when he dismissed Randwick-Petersham’s Anthony Sams.

Tom Fullerton’s 75 against Randwick-Petersham was his second half-century, and highest score, in Second Grade.

Dave Miller’s 54 against Randwick-Petersham was the 18th time he has reached 50 in Seconds (including one century).  During this innings he passed 2500 runs in Seconds.  He also passed Nick Ridley (5229 runs) to become the club’s 22nd highest run-scorer.

Milestone Monday

Saturday’s clean sweep against Campbelltown-Camden was the first time under the current points-scoring system that every grade from First to Fifths won its game with maximum points (an outright in Firsts, and a bonus point in each other grade).  The two Metropolitan Cup sides completed a successful weekend with wins in their Sunday games.

Nick Larkin’s 61 not out from 47 balls for the Melbourne Stars against the Melbourne Renegades was the third half-century of his Big Bash career.  He added the fourth (70 from 44) in his next innings, against the Perth Scorchers on Saturday.

It took Ben Joy only four deliveries to take his first wicket on Saturday, dismissing Campbelltown-Camden’s Adam Whatley to a sharp catch by Tim Cummins.  It was Joy’s 200th wicket in First Grade, and he became the 12th bowler to reach that milestone for the club.  He is only the second bowler (after Tom Kierath) to take 200 wickets for the club in each of First Grade and Second Grade.  His first innings return of 5-34 was only the second five-wicket haul of his First Grade career.  His first wicket in Campbelltown’s second innings was his 32nd of the season, which makes this the most successful of his First Grade career (his previous best was 31 in 2016-17).

Dugald Holloway took his 250th wicket in Premier Cricket (47 for Eastern Suburbs) when he dismissed Campbelltown-Camden’s Luke Courtney in First Grade on Saturday.

Devlin Malone chose a day on which 20 wickets fell to hit his highest First Grade score, 47, against Campbelltown-Camden.  His first six scoring strokes were fours.  It was his highest score since he hit two fifties for Sutherland in Fifth Grade back in 2013-14.

Nivethan Radhakrishnan, in taking 4-24 in Campbelltown-Camden’s second innings, returned his best bowling figures in First Grade.

Tim Cummins completed eight dismissals (seven caught, one stumped) in the First Grade match against Campbelltown-Camden – the most he has ever achieved in a single match.

During his second innings against Campbelltown-Camden, Charlie Dummer passed 500 runs in First Grade this season.

Dave Miller took 5-24 against Campbelltown-Camden in Second Grade, his best bowling figures for the club and his first five-wicket haul.  He was playing his 256th match for the club.  We can’t prove that this is a record, but we’re confident that no other player has played for so long for the club before reaching this milestone.

Dash Ratnam made his Second Grade debut for the club (having played 10 games in Seconds for Mosman).  He held five catches in Campbelltown-Camden’s innings, the first time he has done this for the club.  His first catch was his 150th in all grades of Premier Cricket (120 for Mosman and 20 for Gordon).

Hayden Storey reached his 50 against Campbelltown-Camden in Third Grade from only 21 deliveries.  He brought up his hundred by hitting his 67th ball for 4, having hit 12 fours and 6 sixes.  His eventual score of 175 (104 balls, 13 sixes, 17 fours) was his highest score for the club, his third century in all grades, and his second century in Thirds.

Jack Hill has taken his career tally to 5239 runs, passing Nick Ridley (5229) to become the club’s 21st highest run scorer.

Rex Greaves, with 6-25 against Campbelltown-Camden, returned his best bowling figures for the club.  It was his second five-wicket haul for the club, and his first in Third Grade.

Ned Barnet, with 5-16 against Campbelltown-Camden, collected his best bowling figures for the club.  It was his third five-wicket haul for the club, but his first in Fourth Grade.

Maxim Shanahan, with 4-25 against Campbelltown-Camden, returned his best bowling figures in Fifth Grade.

Kevin Jacob played his first Fifth Grade game for the club on Saturday, scoring his fifth half century for the club (65 not out).

Saarangan Arvind claimed 6-29 in the Metropolitan Cup game against Hawkesbury, his best figures, and first five-wicket haul, for the club.

In the Metropolitan Cup win over North West Sydney, Jack Hennessy hit his second half-century for the club (66 not out), while Luca Croft made his debut for the club, and took his first wicket.

In Green Shield’s impressive win over Fairfield-Liverpool, Alexander Sylow (79) recorded his first half-century for the club and Willoughby Watson (68) hit his second fifty for the club.

Milestone Monday

Liam Robertson made his 300th appearance for the club in all grades in the First Grade match against Blacktown.  Liam has played 205 First Grade games, 48 in Seconds, 5 in Thirds, two in Fifths, one in Metropolitan Cup, 25 in Poidevin-Gray and 14 in Green Shield.  Records on appearances are incomplete and inaccurate, but Liam joins a very small group of players with 300 club appearances, including James Rodgers (1972-2013), Mick O’Sullivan (1968-1995), Alan Crompton (1961-1983), Ash Cowan (2002-2020) and Tom Kierath (1999-2019).

During his innings of 42 not out against Blacktown on Saturday, Tim Cummins passed 2000 runs for the club, all of them in First Grade.

Charlie Dummer, with 56 against Blacktown in First Grade, hit his third consecutive half-century.  During his innings he passed 500 runs for the season (483 in Firsts, 27 in Seconds) and 500 runs in First Grade for the club.  He also passed 3000 runs in Premier Cricket in all grades (for University, Bankstown and Campbelltown).

Damien Mortimer’s 63 against Blacktown was his 27th innings above fifty for the club (seven of them centuries).

Sanjay Anandarajah made his Second Grade debut in the match against Blacktown, collecting his first wicket in only his second over.

Charlie Litchfield, with 90 against Blacktown, posted his sixth score above fifty in Second Grade (one of them a century).  It was his fourth dismissal in the 90s for the club (two in Seconds and two in Thirds).

During the Second Grade match against Blacktown, Max Hope passed 2500 runs for the club in all grades.

The Second Grade match against Blacktown was Henry Clark’s 150th match for the club in all grades.

During Blacktown’s innings in Third Grade on Saturday, Josh Toyer collected his 413rd wicket for the club.  He therefore joins Michael Culkoff as the equal 11th highest wicket-taker in the club’s history.

The Third Grade match against Blacktown was Jack Hill’s 200th match for the club in all grades.

In the Third Grade match against Blacktown, Nivek Tanner compiled his third half-century for the club (55) and claimed his best bowling figures for the club (3-35).

During his innings of 54 against Blacktown in Thirds, Bennett Walsh passed 500 runs for the club and 1500 runs in Premier Cricket (including 1036 for North Sydney).

Andrew Wilkinson’s 4-31 against Blacktown was his best return with the ball in Third Grade.

Brayden Dilley’s 86 against Blacktown was his seventh and highest half-century for the club.   During his innings he passed 1000 runs in Fourths.

Having begun the day equal with AJ Grant, Ash Cowan became the sole holder of the club’s record for the highest career aggregate in Fourth Grade, extending his tally to 2020 runs.  He is now the club’s highest run-scorer in both Thirds (2569 runs) and Fourths.  He also remembered that he used to bowl and, in his first spell of the season, collected 5-61, which was his best return with the ball in Fourth Grade and his sixth five-wicket haul for the club (the other five coming in Third Grade).

James Veitch’s 55 against Blacktown in Fifth Grade was his second half-century, and highest score, for the club.

Ritvik Dinesh, with 68 against Blacktown in Metropolitan Cup, hit his second half-century for the club.