SUCC Metro v Kensington Tech.
1st grade | 2nd grade | 3rd grade | 4th grade | 5th grade | 6th grade
Sydney University 9/240 (dec) ( Matt Morgan 65, Will hay-62, Mark Faraday- 40)
Western Suburbs 0/31
Nash Ball:
The much anticipated return of Tommy" Kevin Muscat is my hero" Kierath did not disappoint the huge crowd that had assembled to witness the pre-game ritual of the Blue and Glods [sic]. The game was keenly contested, with TK challenging every call made against his side and challenging every ankle/shin that he could also. His commitment is faultless, his execution is haphazard to say the least. With the batters down a man, a much deserved victory went the top 5's way. (I think it might have been a draw on the scoreboard, but the moral victory was certainly ours). Worst on Ground: Marty"The most important things in my phone are the numbers" Paskal. Best on Ground: Eddie"Hector" Cowan.
Greg "Wilson" Mail won his first toss for the season and the nerds were delighted to have first use of a strip that looked liked an excellent surface for batting. Before we knew it, we were 3-20, then 4-40. Some rash shots and good bowling caught the uni boys on the hop. Will "My rig is good but there is nothing i can do about my excessive sweating on the circuit" Hay and Michael " Goon bag" Faraday steadied the ship and guided us to a score that was beginning to look acceptable until Alf nicked one. This bought Matt "I should not have broken up with my buzzard because now I pay $1 every week" Morgan to the crease. The 2 put on a great partnership of 42 before Whispers Hay threw away a ton. Morgs batted very well for his 65. He showed positive intent and a willingness to back himself for the 2nd week in a row and he was rewarded for it. The students declared on 9-240 when Nick "Deodorant is expensive that's why I don't use it" Dunford was caught in the deep, leaving Hector agonisingly 100 short of his 1st ever 100.
Lowlight of the day: Eddie C's horrendous chat. Hector was heard to say that he knew a great Speech Pathologist that could help him if required. Good work Heck.
Highlight: The chinese guy dropping his noodles trying to give us back the Sherrin. They looked very tasty as well. Better than Subway...
We will be looking forward to bowling some nice tight lines and fielding with plenty of enthusiasm on the weekend. If that does not work there are always beamers to bowl.
Prediction: Students to claim the 6 points.
Match report 1st grade Day 2 Vs Wests
Sydney University 9/240 lost to Wests 2/241
A very disappointing day for the Blue and Glods with the Magpies chasing down our score of 240 with the utmost of ease.
The day began alarmingly for Nick"Pepe" Dunford after he was leaving craters in the wicket where his size 15s were landing. This made life quite difficult for the big smelly man, but to his credit he kept toiling away and was unlucky not to pick up a wicket or two in his opening spell. Tim"Dolly Dunn" Ley bowled a very controlled first spell and was also unlucky not to grab a pole or two.
Our bowlers did a reasonable job on the whole but were let down by sub standard fielding. The nerds put down a total of 8 catches which made it impossible to defend a mediocre total.
Ryan"Just doing enough"Josh fulfilled a boyhood dream by bowling a first grade maiden, but got greedy in his second over and was duly dispatched. He will be lucky to get another trundle to be fair...
Tommy"Turbo" Kierath did his best impersonations of Mo by running off to cover when the ball clipped the off stump only to see the bails stay on, and his best impersonations of Chris Withers with his potty mouth towards the Wests batsmen who were riding there luck.
The pick of the bowlers was Marty"My abs make rigs physique look sloppy, especially that roll of fat underneath his belly button that is disgusting" Paskal. He bowled with good control and at times good heat.
No-one means to drop catches but we have to lift our fielding dramatically if we are going to be a force in this competition.
Sydney University v Manly (First Grade Limited Overs)
Manly Oval
Sunday 19 October 2008.
Match Report
Sydney University 5/176 (Will Hay 59, Ian Moran 33, Dave Miller 24*) defeated Manly 172 with one bonus point
To warm up, the batsmen took on the bowlers (plus Phelps) in the customary game of nashball. To be blunt, the bowlers were fairly ordinary and were accordingly dismantled by the batsmen who punctuated their performance with skilful and well-drilled manoeuvres. A highlight of the performance by the willow-wielders was the final goal which involved a sweeping four-man move that wound up with Whispers Hay landing a shot. This, of course, was slightly out of character for Whispers who usually prefers heavy petting and a sweaty cuddle.
Shortly thereafter Greg Tosser Mail failed, yet again, to predict upon which side the coin would fall. There were no surprises as he sheepishly motioned to his players that they would be fielding first on a stifling morning. Nevertheless, the show of duelling banjos was swiftly entertaining the crowd and on lead banjo was Moran who plucked an eagle early. Not to be outdone, Screech, on rhythm banjo, also plucked one himself. There was simply no other option for witnesses other than to conclude that the two plucking banjo men were operating in fine concert.
A short period of resistance ensued as Manly’s two best batsmen were at the crease. However, Plugger and T.K. arrested the defiance with one wicket apiece. From there on, Screech ran through the middle order and he finished with well-deserved figures of 4 for 26 from his full complement of overs. The Glods were also most grateful to Lord Voldemort and one of his team mates for the gratuitous barbeques that they provided during the innings. The end result was Manly being dismissed for 172 in the 50th over.
The Glods’ pursuit of Manly’s total did not go without ‘blips on the radar’ as both Mail and your scribe were dismissed rather cheaply during the innings. However, Johnny Hook and Eddy Poodlehead both made valuable contributions to steady the ship. It must be said though, the star of the batting innings was undeniably Whispers Hay who was princely at the crease. For not one moment was that ridiculous troll-doll hair out of place as he plundered the bowling that was offered up to him. Sadly and true to his long-term form, Whispers failed to “go all the way” and he was dismissed for 59 with barely a handful of runs left to chase.
Commendations must also go to Funky (24 n.o.) and and ITS Junior (5 n.o.) who snuffed out whatever fire was left in the collective belly of the opposition.
To both quote a great songwriter and recapitulate: “How did we do it?”
“We shitted it in!”
“With how many bonus points?”
“One.”
Sydney University 259/9 v Western Suburbs
Sydney University (1st inn) (D Miller 62 N Larkin 46 D Butchart 34 S Khalkho 28 J Toyer 25no)
Uni Boys were pumped for their next challenge “The Magpies – Western Suburbs” after their strong performances against Mosman.
Beautiful morning, gentle breeze, green outfield and a shiny hard deck set the scene for the good game. The game the boys play hard, as hard as “Nash”.
My sincere gratitude goes to the inventor of “Nash”, certainly it wasn’t “Nick Larko” or he would have won “Nash” at least once since his time with the Uni. It can be fun for some, but gruesome for others as I was there with Nick when we lost again – a dollar.
Nick states “why I am never in Butch’s team?” – that certainly explains why he never won a Nash game. (Butch – Nash game Inventor “I guess”)
Butch’s reply “Sorry mate you are too young!”
The two Umpies take a stroll to inspect the shiny hard deck, followed by two captains. The coin is tossed in the air by our “Angriest man in the club” – Wardy with a style (Shi↑ style which costed him a dollar).
Wardy won the toss and elected to bat not acknowledging the loss in stock market. The boys started slow but determined not to loose a wicket. They were so slow that at one point they forgot that the overs might take over the runs. “Mr Uni” panicked slightly and lost his concentration trying to copy how he got out in the one day game against Mosman (LBW). “Mr Uni” was so angry that he was going to report the umpies to the judiciary. Wardy stepped in and showed the leadership skills, to calm the situation down by acting as a mediator.
Nick still has to win a game of Nash but he showed his true character by scoring classy 46.
Wickets fell like US stock market with “Haro” joining hands with “Mr Uni” and it looked liked Uni will face the full force of recession. The man to save the recession was “Nash game inventor”. Using his experience stabilised the recession by the bail out package of 34. But the recession took its toll, and the uni were 145/6 at one time.
The Sand man, one of the 4 brothers (Suda, Suda, and Suda – Jelly beans) was joined in with the country boy – D Miller (No resemblance or link to Cricket Legend Keith Miller)
KERRY O’BRIEN:
“A man of his time he's widely regarded as the finest all-rounder ever to play for Australia.”
(Source: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2004/s1218626.htm)
D Miller stood on the wicket as rock and put on 75 runs partnership with Sand man to control the game. Too many chances and one more slog ends the sand man’s inning, which brings in the young Paskal (Marty) on the crease. D Miller throws everything at the ball only to be caught at long on, but made extremely valuable 62, “Well done!”
It was a magnificent knock from young “Marty” of 25 from just 10 balls to take the Uni total to 259/9.
Uni boys have survived the effect of recession. The trading has stoped till next week and will commence on Sat 25th Oct 98.
Sand Man (Brother of S…., S…. & S….)
2nd Grade vs Wests – week 2.
Apology – firstly a heartfelt apology from all of 2nd Grade for letting Sanjiv Khalko pen the match report from week 1. If you can understand the out of context quotes, bizarre left field financial crisis references and the general nonsensical rubbish that was written last week then you are probably playing for the wrong Club. Needless to say Sanjiv will not be invited to write match reports again - ever.
It was suggested when the captain was deciding the teams for Nash ball that it should be “those who understood the match report” versus “those who didn’t” however the sight of a lone Oompa-Loompa in goal with no mates would have been too hard to bear. Nick Larkin chose the teams so he wouldn’t lose which may have been the most value he added all day.
We were greeted with the same conditions as last week – a dry flat pitch that would get harder to bat on due to the lack of bounce and a fast outfield. Declaring overnight, Chris “I’m not f*#%ing Trent from Punchy you f*#%er” Withers gave us the early breakthrough by bowling the right handed opener in the 2nd over. Said opener then spent the next 10 overs sulking in the shade of the trees – chin up chump. Josh “if you don’t bowl the team out in a one dayer is it a draw?” Toyer came around the wicket to sort out the left handed opener, caught sharply at second slip by the old man who showed that a reliance upon Nurofen does not slow your reflexes.
Michael “What?!” Culkoff confirmed his wicket taking ability with his first delivery - ripping out the new batsman’s leg stump with a vicious inswinger. He then showed his class to the Macedonian selectors, who were sitting on the hill sipping their coffee and tucking into baklava, that he is a shoe in for their next World Cup squad by smashing the top of the dangerous number 5’s off stump. Quality.
This brought a partnership between Wests solid number 3 and their number 6. The partnership was broken by Sanjiv “English is my 15th language” Khalko with an amazing caught and bowled. The ball was smashed back at him and with newfound confidence from his stunning match report he plucked the tracer bullet out of the air to see the end of their best bat. Sanjiv then got their number 6 to nick one to Mitchell “cuddles” Cook who took a sharp catch at slip.
Cook captured both of his wickets through brain explosions with their captain hitting a full toss to deep midwicket and Col “I’ve just had a” Barry running down the wicket and forgetting to hit the ball.
We slacked off a little and the Wests number 9 showed many of their top order how to bat by playing aggressive strokes around the wicket all the while shielding his less talented partners from the strike. Culks then knocked over number 10’s middle stump giving him 9 wickets in the last 2 games with 8 of them out bowled.
Trent then finished the innings by having their number 9 caught at somewhat deep/floating/wandering square leg by Oprah. While Sanjiv had a day out in the field given history my money was on the ball.
All in all a pretty solid game for 2nd Grade. We learnt that batting as a team is going to require patience at Uni and that our bowling has the variety and potency to take care of teams on even the most placid of pitches. We still need to keep the intensity up in the field and not assume that things are going to happen for us. We are travelling well at present.
DB
Sydney University v Western Suburbs 8-262 (D.Jessep 3-46, B.Smith 2-31, N.Matthews 2-59)
The undefeated juggernaut rolled onto Bleak Oval with confidence sky high, and the fridge one case heavier (cheers Haley and 'Nash' Cowan). We were also a little more difficult to understand, with Greenie's unintelligible Liverpudlian drivel (I must ask what 'fook' means) complemented with the arrival of Scottish newcomer Richard Branson-Berrington
As for most players on the wrong side of 30, I found Nash a bit of a blur, but I'm convinced one A 'Kenny Keen Bean' Cowan derives more enjoyment from the warm-up than he does the actual game
With the mercury creeping up towards 30, a Caulfield Cup to be run later in the day, and G.Matthews joining us in week 2, we were odds on to lose the toss and field. If Dave 'cranky' Jessep can find his way to the 2-up ring at Clovelly on ANZAC Day, I'd happily accommodate him ......
The new ball partnership of Troy 'Piano Man' Stanley and Andy 'The Walrus' Greene proved probing and effective on a most unresponsive surface. Despite beating the edge regularly, their spell was rewarded with just the one wicket and it wasn't until spin was introduced shortly after the first hour that we claimed our second, LBW to debutant Nolan Matthews.
At 2-120 at tea, the Magpies looked in control, but some patient and disciplined bowling from our seamers began choking the run-rate and creating chances. Unfortunately, and despite great energy and enthusiasm, our fielding execution let us down and several catches were grassed and run-out opportunities squandered
To finish the day with the Maggies at 8-263 wasn't a bad result on a flat pitch and fast outfield, but we all recognise our fielding lapses have gifted our opposition an extra 80 runs.....runs we need to chase next week
Special mention to James 'Slinky' Crowley for a peerless effort behind the stumps and to Sir Richard Branson for outstanding energy and commitment in the ring
Brendon Smith
Sydney University V Western Suburbs 4th graded Day 1
Sydney University 312 ( James Walsh 82, Nigel Cowell 44, Pete Jordon 31, Matt Skinner 30)
Skins won the toss and elected to bat on a green coloured Hume highway.
From the get go the boys showed a positive intent, so positive that we
reached a 100 off a little over 10 overs. Skins belted them early and that
seemed to set the theme for the day. All the top 6 had a rapid start thanks
to some friendly Wests bowling but only Walshy managed to convert to 50. We
were well over 200 at tea but the loss of wickets due to some free
strokeplay was concerning. Some tough lower order batting from the likes
of Nigel and Benny Peacock helped resurrect the innings. Finished with a
score over 300, and had a couple of sneaky overs at the death.
A good performance for 50 over cricket but you cant help but feel we let a
score of 400+ slip through our fingers. Juicy deck thanks to rain this week
and we should hopefully contribute to free beers at NAGS, yewww!
P.S. fines session was A-mazing lots of beer money raised, thanks crawf.
Sydney University 4th Grade V Wests Day 2
Sydney University 312 lost to Wests 7-313 (Charles Cull 5/67)
The 4th grade boys rocked up to uni 2 confident of contributing to the possibility of free beer at the Nags. We were met with an early snag, the wests openers provided some unattractive but effective resilience to our openers, Kags and Nigel. The boys bowled well but for the majority of the time without luck. Nigel produced the break through and we were away. The wickets tended to fall in clumps but annoying partnerships managed to develop through the innings. The wests skipper was the cornerstone of the wests fight back scoring over 100 with a wagon wheel that attacked the cow corner boundary. Big Charlie bowled good lines and was rewarded with his first "michelle" for the club. A partnership late in the day proved to be the difference in the end. Wests got over us in the final 5 overs of the day. Seamers toiled hard on a tough deck but the game was lost through some careless shot selection on the opening day. Hopefully that’s the only loss for the season out of the way.
Sydney University (283 P. Bertelle 53, D. Horton 51, M. Ruhnau 48) vs. UNSW
(0-30)
A lovely day at a picturesque St. Pauls heralded the beginning of what turned out to be a good day at the crease for the Uni boys. With a leisurely start at 12:30 that ensured some of the boys were able to recover from their Saturday night hangovers, the Uni boys took to the crease to bat.
Matt 'Budda' Ruhnau and Steve Green strode out into the middle to face the new ball, and did an admirable job. Matt's game strike-rate was high at its very lowest, as he took to the opening bowlers with a lovely array of cover drives, flicks off the pads and other shots that could only be described as 'majestic', putting the side in a good position to capitalise. Steve Green was doing well at the other end when he went for 14, but the score was looking good at 1-42 after 11 overs.
After James McPherson and Matt took to the openers with glee, the fielding side brought on spin at both ends. They were channelling the Murali, as it happened, with the leggie at one end bearing a strong facial resemblance to him and the offie at the other having a bowling action with an uncanny resemblance to his. This worried our batsmen not, however, and they took to giving the offie quite a pummeling. The leggie, whose last name one of the scorers concluded to be about seven consonants in a row and then the chemical symbol for boron, had almost immediate success, however, snagging James at one end with a ball that bounced about an inch off the deck. Matt was unlucky, out LBW to the same bowler in his second over for 48, agonisingly short of the half century he deserved.
Several wickets fell quickly, as the spinners looked to be getting on top.
Enter the Skipper. Paul steadied the ship as people fell around him, and took to the spinners with some ease towards the end of his innings, compiling 53 runs and bringing some stability to the innings. After he left, Alex Logan and David Horton, two of the younger guys in the team, took to the task of adding some quick runs with ease. David, especially displayed some very classy batting with some brilliant shots through the covers, racking up 51 off 54 balls, while Alex compiled 31 at the other end.
With the lower order wrapped up and David not-out, we had compiled 283, a good score on a slow field and a flat deck. So the Uni boys went out to have 10 overs or so at the UNSW batsmen before the close of play.
Luke opened from one end, bowling quick, going for 5 off his four overs, troubling the openers, who looked rather uneasy at the crease. Some problems with no-balls plagued Travis' (yours truly's) first over down the other end, who ended up with 15 off his three. However with spin being the initiative at both ends as the light faded, Matt and Jack Lerade came on to bowl some overs, and were troubling the batsmen, with one close LBW shout being denied because the UNSW player umpiring perceptively observed that "It was a bit of a wrong'un".
At the close of play, UNSW were 0-30 off 12, far below the run-rate required, and the Uni boys are well-placed to take victory on the second day.
6th Grade V UNSW Day 2
Sydney University lost on 1st Innings to UNSW
The boys turned up to St. Pauls on the second day confident about closing the deal from their first week effort. The first session was relatively quiet, with no wickets being taken until just before tea. Their opening batsman dropped to the turf, kissing the ground as he reached his half-century, one that the Skipper described as the worst he had ever seen. Jack Lerade did some serious damage to the middle order, picking up 5-61 off his gigantic spell of 25 overs.
Unfortunately, the Uni boys weren't able to make the breakthrough, and the UNSW team compiled the runs with two overs to spare. Overall a good effort, though a tough day in the field with wickets hard to come by.
Hopefully we'll wrap the points up next week.
SUVCC (Sydney uni vets) V Beavers
SUVCC vs Beavers
Sat 18th October
Ground: St Luke's No.2
Beavers 6/83, Sydney Uni 1/89
A perfect start to the season with a comprehensive victory over an under-strength Beavers. Captain Paul Moorhouse won the toss and put Beavers in, with early dividends paid by quicks Ben Joy and Ben Fessy. Excellent slow bowling support from Paul himself, Ned Manning, Greg Aird and Sam Al Maliki kept the score to 6/83 from 35 overs. Nik Kirby and Richard Woolley opened the innings, Nik out for 9 with Richard NO for 46 and John Le Couteur starting the season well with an unbeaten 29 including a towering 6 to win the match.
All round an excellent start to the season
Cheers Peter Bryant