CLUB NEWS
24th April, 2012
SUSF Sports Awards
And the winner is....Men's Cricket!
Sunday 1 April
We are the 1st & 2nd Grade Premiers for 2011-12 as 1st Grade go back to back
Sydney University have won the 1st & 2nd Grade premierships for 2011-12.
The final day only lasted 40 minutes and after the Belvidere Cup and Benaud Medal presentations, many of the players journeyed to North Sydney Oval where 2nd Grade were moving quickly towards their premiership, setting Manly 400 to win ouright. Manly were dismissed for 131, with Josh Toyer 4-34, Ben Joy 3-42, and Michael Culkoff 2-19 sharing the wwith 1st Grade again defeating the strong Randwick-Petersham in a repeat of last year's Grand Final. Randwick-Petersham resumed at 6-150 on Day 3 of the final, and added only 35 before Stuart MacGill captured the final wicket to bring his total number of wickets in Sydney 1st Grade Grand Finals to 26 the most of any player. Earlier Greg Mail took the first wicket of the morning removing Nathan Hauritz, and then Tim Ley captured two wickets including Randwick-Petes top scorer, Adam Semple (58). Stuart Clark was awarded the Benaud Medal for player of the match in what may well be his last competitive match. Clark scored 72 in Sydney Uni's innings and took the first three Randwick-Petes wickets to finish with 3-37.ickets. Tom Kierath, the Sydney Uni Captain, was named by the umpires as player of the match for his 2nd innings century of 103, in which he shared a record Sydney Uni 2nd Grade , 6th wicket partnership of 177 with Kevin Desai. Very convincing wins, with 1st Grade by 222 runs on the first innings and 2nd Grade outright by268 runs.
5th Grade were unable to recover from the difficult start on Day 1 and were dismissed in their 2nd innings against Gordon for 92, with only Sam Mahabady offering any real resistance. The match was all over just before lunch on the second day, and while extremely disappointing for the players, Matthew Skinner and his team can be proud of their efforts over the season and on making the Grand Final. Congratulations go to Gordon for a well deserved win.
The 1st & 2nd Grade Premierships, the 5th Grade Grand Finalist, the 4th Grade, Metropolitan Cup and Anarchy Cup semi Finalists, The First Grade Twenty20 Final, The Limited Over Semi Final, Green Shield just missing out on the Final Series, should help make the Presentation Night on Friday 13th April a fantastic night. Book your tickets now with Geoff de Mesquita at g.demesquita@sport.usyd.edu.au
Saturday 31 March 2012
Day 2 Grand Final Highlights include a record partnership in 2nd Grade between Tom Kierath and Kevin Desai and a great opening spell in 1st Grade from Stuart Clark.
Early wickets from Stuart Clark, including the wicket of Simon Katich for 0 and a direct hit runout from Scott Henry on Usman Khawaja, has resulted in Sydney Uni having the upper hand at the end of the second day of the 1st Grade Grand Final against Randwick-Petersham. A defiant unbroken 7th wicket partnership of 53 between Nathan Hauritz and Adam Semple saw Randwick-Petes reach 6-150 at stumps on Day 2. Sydney Uni earlier had taken their overnight score from 6-319 to 407 all out. After Stuart Clark was dismissed for 72, Will Somerville 39, James Crowley 26* and Tim Ley 18, continued to delay the start of the Randwick Petes innings.
And when Randwick did commence batting, Clark soon had them reeling at 3-17 and after Scott Henry's brilliant runout of Khawaja, Stuart MacgIll removed both Adam and Scott Coyte. MacGill now has the most wickets of any 1st Grade bowler in Sydney Grand Finals , with 25. Hopefully a freshend up Uni attack can finish the Randwick innings off in the morning.
2nd Grade have certainly recovered from their 1st innings collapse of 116 and having bowled Manly out for 85 on the 1st day, batted the whole of Day 2, the highlight being another century to skipper, Tom Kierath (103) who with Kevin Desai (86) established a record Sydney Uni 2nd grade 7th wicket partnership of 177. With Ed Arnott, 21* and Ben Joy 15*, Sydney Uni batted through to stumps to be 9-330, a lead of 361 going into the final day.
5th Grade were disappointing on Day 1 of their match against Gordon, and after winning the toss and batting first on a great batting pitch, could not handle the swing bowling of the Gordon medium pacers and were dismissed for 109. Three quick wickets from Alex Mihalyka saw Gordon lose 3-2 and at 4-51, Sydney Uni definately looked like they would go close to defending their total. However the Gordon middle order batted well and finally, Uni skipper Matt Skinner reluctantly brought himself on to bowl and his 3-12 helped dismiss Gordon for 224. Sydney Uni were 1-1 at stumps and would have to bat very well tomorrow morning and leave themselves enough time to bowl Gordon out, a very tough task.
All matches on Sunday start at 9.00am. Please get down to Bankstown Oval (1st Grade), North Sydney Oval (2nd grade) or Uni No 1 Oval (5th Grade) to support your Club. The players will appreciate it
Friday 30th March 2012
Day 1 1st & 2nd Grade Grand Finals
A soliday batting display by 1st Grade on Day 1 against Randwick-Petersham, while twenty wickets fall in 2nd Grade Grand Final as Uni takes a first innings lead into day 2 against Manly
In 1st Grade, Sydney Uni won the toss and batted and made a good start against the strong Randwick-Petersham bowling attack, with Mark Faraday (24) and Greg Mail (94) putting on 36 for the first wicket. Faraday's dismissal brought Scott Henry to the crease, and last year's Benaud medalist together with Mail put together a 2nd wicket partnership of 151, before Mail was brilliantly caught off Nathan Hauritz for 94. Scott Henry was finally dismissed for 90, and Uni were soon 6-260. Stuart Clark, 60* off 57 balls (10 fours) and Will Somerville 16* then put together a valuable unbroken 7th wicket partnership of 59 to have Uni 6-319 at stumps. Clark's innings saw Randwick Petes, use 9 bowlers in an effort to disloge him. Uni's score is already the highest score made by our 1st Grade side in any of the finals it has played since and including the 2002-03 victory. However Randwick Petersham have a very strong batting line up, including Test batsmen, Simon Katich and Usman Khawaja and Uni will hope to continue batting through the morning session.
In 2nd Grade, Sydney Uni were sent in by Manly on a seaming pitch at North Sydney Oval. The Students lost early wickets and never really recoverred to be dismissed for 116. Michael Culkoff, 39, Adam Theobald, 25 and Josh Toyer 18 were the only Uni batsmen to reach double figures.
The Uni bowlers however also made the most of the conditions to dismiss Manly for 85 and take a 31 run first innings lead. Ben Joy 3-12, Josh Toyer 3-30 and Liam Robertson 2-7 were the main contributors in a very good bowling performance. Uni will resume tomorrow at 0-5 taking a 36 run lead into the 2nd Day.
The Belvidere Cup for the 1st Grade Premiership with Sydney Uni going for back to back wins
5th grade commence their final on Saturday from 10.00am at University No 1 Oval
Check live scores for the details.
Friday 30th March 2012
Possible 1st grade final stream this Sunday
As the final for 1st grade is being played at Bankstown oval, we may only be able to bring the final day of play (Sunday) to you via live streaming. Bankstown has a fast internet connection but at this stage it is a limited account used mainly for score uploads and live scores. Our previous attempts at streaming using mobile broadband were poor to say the least so we shall not go that route.
If you are a member of another cricket club and have enjoyed the live streaming that we have provided during the season, please follow in our foot steps and get a fast internet connection with around 50 gig of data available per month installed at your club house, pavilion or grandstand.
Dave Stanton
25th March, 2012
Sydney University & Randwick Petersham to fight out 1st Grade Premiership for second successive year as three Sydney University teams advance to Grand Finals, and Adam Theobald breaks 100 year old record.
Sydney University contested five semi finals this weekend with 1st, 2nd and 5th grade progressing to the Grand Final. Our two minor premiership teams, 4th Grade & Metropolitan Cup were both eliminated in their respective matches however can be proud of their season's efforts. It is the third time that Sydney Uni have contested three Premiership Grand Finals in the one season, having last done it in 2008/09 with 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade with 2nd grade winning the Premiership. In 1980-81 Sydney Uni contested 3rd, 4th & 5th grade finals and won all three.
1st Grade will play Randwick-Petersham at Bankstown Oval over three days commencing Friday30 March
2nd Grade will play Manly at North Sydney Oval over three days commencing Friday 30 March
5th Grade will play Gordon at Sydney University No 1 Oval in a two day match commencing 31 March
Sydney Uni lost the toss against North Sydney in 1st grade and were sent in on what appeared to be a good batting pitch. After the loss of two early wickets, Ian Moran (70) continuing his outstanding batting form, and Scott Henry (56) put on 112 to take Sydney Uni to 2-137 and it appeared that they could bat North Sydney out of the match. However a batting collapse, resulted in Uni being dismissed for 232 well below what appeared to be a reasonable target. Sustained pressure from the Sydney University bowlers led by former Test players Stuart Clark (4-46)and Stuart MacGill and a brilliant outfield catch by Scott Henry in the last over before lunch resulted in North Sydney being dismissed before tea on the second day for 197. North Sydney's top scorer, Tim Affleck, 56, hooked a Clark bouncer only to watch Henry run the edge of the boundary and take a sensational high flying catch to have North Sydney 5-131 at lunch. North Sydney never really recovered from that dismissal to fall 35 runs short. The Grand Final will bring together the two best teams in the competition for the second successive year with Randwick-Petes already having won the twenty20 and Limited overs competitions this year. The twenty20 victory was over Sydney Uni in the Australia Day final. Randwick-Petes have three test players, Simon Katich, Usman Khawaja, and Nathan Hauritz as well as the Coyte Brothers, Bert Cockly and a number of other good players and will again certainly test the Sydney Uni team.
The entire semi final can be watched here thanks to our recorded live vision coverage. There are 5 seperate recordings with the one at the top of the list on the right hand side being the last session. Slide down to the 5th recording if you wish to watch from the first delivery of the game.
2nd Grade batted Northern District out of the match on a fantastic playing surface at Waverley Oval. Adam Theobald broke a 101 year old record, scoring 226 in a team total of 432. Adam's innings was the highest Sydney Uni individual 2nd Grade score since C J Tozer scored 211 against Redfern in 1910-11. Adam batting at No 3 was the last batsman out and shared century stands with Liam Robertson (68) and Tom Kierath 67. Northern District were then dismissed for 178 off only 28.5 overs, with Ben Joy 5-41, and Kevin Desai 2-38 the major wicket takers for the students.
4th Grade finished the season disappointingly, after being minor premiers, however could not recover from their first innings collapse, being dismissed for 112 against Manly. After dismissing Manly for 151 (Charles Cull taking 4-24), Sydney Uni then scored 9-202 off 35 overs setting Manly 164 to win. Manly only needed to hold out, however scored the runs in 37 overs to win outright.
5th Grade have earned the right to host a Grand Final at University No 1 oval after comfortably defeating Randwick Petersham in the semi final. Dismissed for 190 (Simon Cowan 50) after being sent in at St Pauls, the experienced Sydney Uni bowling attack again led by Tim Croft 5-30 bowled out Randwick Petes for 115. Sydney Uni batting a second time were 1-133 when the match was called off, with skipper Matthew Skinner 58* and Andrew Deveraj 57*.
The Metropolitan Cup, like 4th Grade, also had a disappointing finish, being easily beaten by Gordon. Gordon made 297 after being sent in at Chatswood, with Sydney Uni only able to score 145.
Sunday 18th.3.2012
Double century for Ian Moran as we advance to semi finals!
Five Teams go through to Semi Finals as Ian Moran scores his firsts grade double century and shares 253 run partnership with Nick Larkin, who scores his second 1st Grade finals hundred. A maiden grade century also from Alex Logan and a six wicket haul from Tim Croft among the highlights.
| Honour Roll for Centuries, 5 for's and Hat-tricks | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player's name | Grade | Achievement: |
Match |
| Greg Mail | 1 | All time leading run scorer for SGC 1st grade! | Achieved during the match against Fairfield Liverpool |
| Scott Henry | 1 | 107 | Gordon |
| Tim Ley | 1 | 5/48 | Gordon |
| Ben Joy | 2 | 5/24 | Gordon |
| Michael Culkoff | 2 | 5/27 | Gordon |
| Greg Mail | 1 | 7/12 | Manly |
| Michael Culkoff | 2 | 5/43 | Manly |
| Greg Mail | 1 | 131 | Blacktown |
| Kevin Desai | 4 | 137 | Blacktown |
| Steve Hobson | 5 | 240 on debut | Parramatta |
| Alex Toomey | 6 | 112 | UNSW |
| Wade Capps | 6 | 153 no | UNSW |
| Michael Culkoff | 2 | 5/27 | Blacktown |
| Liam Robertson | 2 | 5/9 | Blacktown |
| Kerrod McPherson | 3 | 5/37 | Blacktown |
| Darius Visser | 4 | 5/4 | Blacktown |
| Matt Skinner | 5 | 128 | Mosman |
| Rob Edwards | PG's | 6/35 | Manly |
| Michael Barwick | 6 | 101 | North Sydney |
| Greg Mail | 1 | 100 | Campbelltown Camden |
| Ben Joy | 2 | 8/12 | Penrith |
| Tom Kierath | 2 | 108 no | Northern District |
| Steve Hobson | 2 | 126 | Hawkesbury |
| Josh Toyer | 2 | 5/45 | Hawkesbury |
| Peter Murray | 4 | 5/14 | Hawkesbury |
| Nick Fitzgerald | 6 | 120 | Parramatta |
| Pete Murray | 4 | 5/14 | Hawkesbury |
| Ian Moran | 1 | 7/20 | Sydney |
| Josh Toyer | 2 | 5/19 | Sydney |
| Alasdair Grant | 3 | 5/15 | Sydney |
| Pete Murray | 4 | 6/43 | Sydney |
| Ian Moran | 1 | 202 no | Manly Warringah |
| Nick Larkin | 1 | 124 | Manly Warringah |
| Alex Logan | 5 | 120 | St. George |
| Tim Croft | 5 | 6/35 | St. George |