Match Reports - Round 10 vs Blacktown Mounties CC, Hawkesbury CC & Campbelltown-Campden CC

Match Reports - Round 10 vs Blacktown Mounties CC, Hawkesbury CC & Campbelltown-Campden CC

MATCH REPORT - 1ST GRADE VS BLACKTOWN MOUNTIES AT JOE MCALEER OVAL (50 OVERS)

SUCC 4/228
43.0 overs

D Mortimer 63 (69)
K Tate 3/38/7.3

DEF

Blacktown Mounties 224
49.3 overs

W Tareen 47 (51)
J Fawcett 2/35/10.0

In a weekend celebrating Robbo’s 300th game, which his record is quite spectacular including an incredible 50+ final appearances and soon to add to that this season. A competitive nature and a desire to win. This comes at no surprise, which is well reciprocated around the playing group.

After a winning draw in Nash for the top 6 as we were limited to 5 players and some very bias umpiring towards the bowlers. It was onto the toss where we lost and were sent in to bowl first, which proved a good result as BJ and Cassachino made early break throughs- Probably the best opening bowling combination in the competition. On a wicket that kept us interested, Blacktown put up some resistance. Having built a couple partnerships, whilst our bowlers kept bowling our best balls and asking questions, which kept the momentum in the students favour. Fielding having been one of focuses this season, we managed to get a couple run outs. (update the run out club please Borgy) With some great death bowling in Boozer (Ben Mitchell) and Spud (Tatey), we managed to restrict Blacktown to all out for 224. 

Onto our batting innings following a Burrito or a Burrito bowl for some, watching their skinfolds post xmas, Courteous to the Warriors sponsor Zambrero. We lost our first wicket on 30 (Niv) for 14 where he showed some positive signs of what has been a tough season with the bat. Dummer (56) and Morts (63) put on 99 for the 2nd wicket to give the students a good sniff at 6 points. Yet another start for the pair, hopefully saving a couple big ones come the finals series. Duff (12) came out showing intent early to try pick up where he left off last week but found a fielder looking to take the game on. It was onto Bevo himself (TC) finishing on 42no and Mitchell 26no to finish off the chase, seeing us finish 4/228 with 7 overs to spare. 

All in all, great day travelling west and spending $3847 on tolls, seeing the students make another LO quarter final.

Damien Mortimer

MATCH REPORT - 2ND GRADE VS BLACKTOWN MOUNTIES AT UNIVERSITY OVAL 1 (50 OVERS)

SUCC 243
49.2 overs

C Litchfield 90 (92)
R Greaves 2/45/9.0

DEF BY

Blacktown Mounties 7/251
50.0 overs

H Singh 108 (139)
A Riaz 4/43/10.0

MATCH REPORT - 3RD GRADE VS BLACKTOWN MOUNTIES AT JIM HANSHAW OVAL (50 OVERS)

SUCC 193
46.0 overs

ND Tanner 55
AM Wilkinson 4/31/10.0

DEF BY

Blacktown Mounties 9/228
50.0 overs

GK Ganeshkumar 75
M Jones 2/28/6.0

MATCH REPORT - 4TH GRADE VS BLACKTOWN MOUNTIES AT ST PAUL’S OVAL (50 OVERS)

SUCC 5/264
48.2 overs

B Dilley 86
A Cowan 5/61/10.0

DEF

Blacktown Mounties 261
49.3 overs

M Narvel 110
B Grayson 2/59/10.0

4s came into this round hot off a great win against Penrith and ready to do the job again. By pure luck, Nash went to the oldies this week, and saw some classic off-the-ball slide tackling from Dilley. A big alpha move from the 4s top scorer to show his intent for the day, along with a fine header to seal the game. 4s lost the toss and were sent into the field, taking 1 wicket early before Blacktown settled in. Some good work from Ned at first change to keep the batsmen working hard.

A well fought 1st session, yielding 1 wicket for not many runs. Blacktown went about their business with both batsmen passing 50 in a wicket-less session to put themselves on top after 35 overs. The last session began with Blacktown looking to up the ante, as one of their batsmen made his century. A big total looking on the cards before Brazel got the breakthrough wicket and end a 148-run partnership. Soon after, Ned dismissed the centurion to bring uni back into the contest. 4s then showed their dominance, and why they are on top, with good work in the field and with the ball, taking 6-50 to dismiss Blacktown for 261.

Smash combining very well with Shez, taking 5 wickets in his first bowl for 3 years. Matt Powys had 4s off to a flier early, followed by a strong 100+ run stand between Dilley and Sidhu. From such a solid base, 4s looked comfortable through the run-chase. Dilley finished with a career-best of 86, while Sidhu made his top score for the club with a great 46. More support from Barrett followed, as 4s drew closer to the total. Step up Smash. At 5-210, needing just over a run a ball, Cowan and Coelho put on a display, sending the ball over the fence multiple times to seal the victory with an over-and-a-half to spare.

Great team performance, with lots of players stepping up for 4s. A great lead into the second half of the season, and a great feeling of confidence for the team.

MATCH REPORT - 5TH GRADE VS BLACKTOWN MOUNTIES AT WHALAN OVAL (50 OVERS)

SUCC 176
45.4 overs

J Veitch 55 (73)
J Veitch 2/19/6.0

DEF

Blacktown Mounties 150
49.2 overs

C Govekar 47
T Hayes 2/8/3.0

The 5s boys made the journey out to Whalan the past weekend to take on Blacktown in a one dayer, with skipper Tommy Lamont starting off the day well by securing the boys the most premium of cases. After winning the toss we chose to bat first, with Veitchy starting our innings off nicely, making a good 55. Support from Tommy in the middle helped with the boys making a 96 run partnership, with Tommy contributing 35. We finished up with a total of 176.

Our bowling innings went well with Muz and Lew starting us off with a quality opening spell. Pressure in the field created a run out to claim our first scalp, and then we turned to spin through the middle overs. The three leg spinners, Rav, Prak, and Veitchy, all went away with 2 a piece, and did a great job putting us in a solid position. Lew and Kirky cleaned up the tail, to secure us a good win.

A great effort with bat, ball, and in the field. 3 J Veitchy, 2 R Ganesh, 1 P Sharma.

Thomas Lamont

MATCH REPORT - METRO GOLD VS BLACKTOWN MOUNTIES AT ST PAUL’S OVAL (50 OVERS)

SUCC 8/272
50.0 overs

R Dinesh 68 (58)
J Rinka 3/29/4.0

DEF

Blacktown Mounties 8/236
50.0 overs

R Ferdinands 62* (55)
M Wright 3/36/10.0

MATCH REPORT - METRO BLUE VS HAWKESBURY CC AT BENSON’S LANE NO.3 (50 OVERS)

SUCC 135
48.0 overs

S Khalkho 34
J Hennessey 3/28/8.0

DEF BY

Hawkesbury CC 160
42.0 overs

D Brahmbhatt 36
J Foote 3/22/5.0

After a long drive out to Richmond, the metro blue boys were extremely keen for another game, searching for another win against the lower ranked Hawkesbury after having 4 consecutive wins on the trot. After playing some Nash and fielding practice, captain jack Hennessy went to do the toss. Jack won the toss and elected to bowl first on what looked to be a green and good bowling wicket.

Tom Crawford and Tom Foreman opened the bowling for Sydney uni and were met with some very aggressive Hawkesbury opening batsman. Tom foreman got the first breakthrough for us with a beautiful in-swinger in his second over. During the middle period of the game, Hawkesbury started to get away from us with some tough chances going down in the field but we were brought back into it through some outstanding bowling by jack Hennessy (3-28 off 8) and Sanjiv khalkho ( 2-23 off 9) as well as Tom Crawford (1-34 off 10) and Tom Foreman (2-25 off 10) and an unbelievable run out that came from nowhere from Azhar Saeed.

The metro blue boys finished well with the ball and in the field, restricting Hawkesbury to 160. Nathan Gibbons and Joel Ritchie opened the batting for Sydney Uni but didn’t get off to the start we needed with Nathan Gibbons being run out in the second over. At number 3, Reuben Kapoor came in and started off a nice little partnership with Joel Ritchie, steadying the run chase again before Joel Ritchie departed for 18 being given out unluckily lbw.

After this wicket our middle order wasn’t quite able to establish a partnership losing a few quick wickets until Jack Hennessy and Sanjiv Khalkho combined for a steady 21 run partnership, Sanjiv top scoring with a nice 34. Unfortunately, Sanjivs 34 wasn’t enough to get the metro boys home, being bowled out for 136, 24 runs short of the target. All in all, it was a great effort from all the boys with everyone contributing, just unlucky to not be able to get the job done.

Nathan Gibbons

MATCH REPORT - POIDEVIN-GRAY VS CAMPBELLTOWN-CAMDEN CC AT RABY OVAL 1 (50 OVERS)

SUCC 67
28.0 overs

B Mitchell 17 (21)
N Radhakrishnan 3/18/10.0

DEF BY

Campbelltown-Camden CC 7/68
26.0 overs

J Isakka 24 (36)
W Salzmann 4/22/9.0

Match Reports - Round 9 vs Penrith CC, Randwick Petersham Gold (Metro Blue)

Match Reports - Round 9 vs Penrith CC, Randwick Petersham Gold (Metro Blue)

MATCH REPORT - 1ST GRADE VS PENRITH AT UNIVERSITY OVAL 1 (50 OVERS)

SUCC 4/239
45.2 overs

R McElduff 66* (67)
D Holloway 3/23/9.2

DEF

Penrith 235
49.2 overs

C Weir 95 (86)
H Railz 1/23/5.0

MATCH REPORT - 2ND GRADE VS PENRITH AT HOWELL OVAL (50 OVERS)

SUCC 119
33.4 overs

M Hope 30 (37)
H Clark 3/34/9.3

DEF BY

Penrith 199
48.3 overs

SG Finemore 41 (60)
J New 4/37/10.0

MATCH REPORT - 3RD GRADE VS PENRITH AT ST PAUL’S OVAL (50 OVERS)

SUCC 178
48.0 overs

JI Toyer 49
S Anandarajah 4/21/10.0

DEF

Penrith 153
43.0 overs

M Becker 36*
A Burton 5/48/10.0

MATCH REPORT - 4TH GRADE VS PENRITH AT BILL BALL OVAL (COOK PARK) (50 OVERS)

SUCC 9/190
50.0 overs

B Dilley 40
P Brazel 40
AM Wilkinson 6/11/7.5

DEF

Penrith 74
32.5 overs

C Potter-Jugovac 16
D Dent 2/16/7.0

MATCH REPORT - 5TH GRADE VS PENRITH AT CAMPERDOWN PARK (50 OVERS)

SUCC 136
43.4 overs

H Cain 28 (93)
M Shanahan 2/36/10.0

DEF BY

Penrith 5/187
50.0 overs

O Sultana 52 (73)
R Wilson 3/23/10.0

It was a real sunny day as 5s rolled into Camperdown without a frown, reminiscing on last round’s crushing victory over Eastern Suburbs.  

Nash went to the bottom 5 on the back of an inspired goalkeeping performance from M. Miles and an outrageous top-corner, outside-the-box effort from Shanahan which made a Karius of Cain. 

Sending Penrith in on a quagmire of a pitch, Foreman (0-36), Miles (2-36) and Shanahan (2-35) created chances and dealt some blows to the batsmen, but failed to make the inroads anticipated on such a greentop. Nevertheless, the scoring rate was kept down by Ganesh (1-10) and Kirk (0-12) and continued pressure saw wickets fall at consistent, if not frequent, intervals. Dropped catches and looseness in the field allowed Penrith to sneak to 5-187 after their 50 overs. 

Cain (28) and Kirk (14) made a bright start against the new ball, but had their scoring reined in before Kirk was dismissed with the score at 43. Advancing to 2-85, Uni were close to breaking the back of the chase, but a combination of scoreboard pressure and poor shots combined to trigger a collapse which saw 5s fall well short of the target, dismissed in the 44th over for 136.

MATCH REPORT - METRO GOLD VS PENRITH AT RANCE OVAL (50 OVERS)

SUCC 9/113
50.0 overs

S Arvind 34
Y Dalvi 3/12/6.2

DEF BY

Penrith 156
47.2 overs

L Astill 62
KM Penney 3/18/5.0

MATCH REPORT - METRO BLUE VS RANDWICK PETERSHAM GOLD AT RANCE OVAL (50 OVERS)

SUCC 6/110
33.2 overs

R Kapoor 31*
T Crawford 4/25/10.0

DEF

Randwick Petersham Gold 108
47.0 overs

J Segal 12
E Khoo 12
A Bhat 4/21/10.0

Where did we come from? - By James Rodgers

Where did we come from? - By James Rodgers

 WHERE DID WE COME FROM?

On Saturdays 1st and 8th April 1854, Sydney University played its first recorded cricket game.

‘Sydney University’, fielding a team of undergraduates whose ages ranged from 15 to 21, played ‘The Garrison’, a team of soldiers lodged at Victoria Barracks.

The game took place on a field behind the Barracks in Paddington, known variously as ‘The Military Cricket Ground’ or ‘The Garrison Ground’. Later, it would be known as ‘The Military and Civil Ground’. Later still,  the ‘Association Ground’. Now it is on the site of what we know as ‘The Sydney Cricket Ground.’

 Conditions for the game were primitive. The pitch was uneven, the bats rough-hewn, protective equipment unheard of, the bowling underarm or round arm. There were no boundaries. Each ‘notch’ had to be run.

University’s John Kinloch, “sending down a fairly fast ball with spin from the leg”, hit the stumps of the first four soldier batsmen and The Garrison was dismissed for 49. Beginning the reply, University’s openers were two 16 year olds, Rodney Riddell and Marshall Burdekin.

It appears that Riddell faced the first ball.

Who was this this holder of such a singular distinction in the Club’s long history?

 Rodney Stuart Riddell was the son of the Colonial Treasurer, Campbell Drummond Riddell (1796-1858) and Caroline Stuart (1810-1898). Educated at Mr William Cape’s School at Darlinghurst (where Riddell’s opening partner, Burdekin, had also been to school), he was one of the first students admitted to the University of Sydney in October 1852, having passed the matriculation exams. Candidates were examined in Greek (‘The Iliad’ book 5 and ‘The Anabasis’ book 1), Latin (‘The Aeneid’ book 1 and Sallust’s ‘Bellum Catalinae’) Arithmetic and Algebra (Euclid book 1).

Riddell, however, did not complete his Arts degree. His great grandfather, Sir James Riddell, was the first baron of Ardnamurchon, Argleshire in Scotland and the hereditary title was eventually to pass to his great grandson. In the meantime, Rodney Riddell became a professional soldier, serving in the New Zealand wars in the 1860s, then as a Captain of the 7th Foot in the Afghan War 1878-1880. He succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1883, was knighted, and served as Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Sir Rodney Riddell in the Sudan campaign of 1885.

When he died in 1907 without issue, the Baronetcy lapsed.

 What of his batting partner, Marshall Burdekin?

He was one of the first from Sydney University to be conferred with a Master of Arts in 1859. He became a barrister and a member of the Legislative Council of NSW before his death in 1883.

And what about the game?

The Garrison made 49. University totalled only 33 but Riddell’s 14 was a substantial score before he was caught by Private Hartnett. Kinloch took at least four wickets in the Garrison’s 2nd innings of 35 and University scraped home by two wickets.

 Which university cricketer bowled the first ball in the Garrison’s innings 166 years ago?

In all probability, 21 year old John Kinloch, born in Dublin of Scottish heritage.

Who faced the first ball in University’s innings?

In all probability, 16 year old Rodney Riddell, later the fourth baron of Ardnamurchon in Scotland.

 In 2020, who opens the batting in University’s 1st Grade side?

30 year old Nick Larkin who has represented Ireland.

And who opens the bowling?

31 year old Ben Joy, born in England.

 James Rodgers

 

Claude Tozer - The Centenary of his Tragic Death

Claude Tozer - The Centenary of his Tragic Death

CLAUDE TOZER. THE CENTENARY OF HIS TRAGIC DEATH

 On Friday 17 December 1920, the 1st Test between Australia and England commenced at the SCG.

 On Monday 20 December, Claude Tozer sat in the Members’ Stand with some cricketing friends watching as Australia built up an unassailable lead of 658.

Tozer was a staid 30 year old suburban doctor. But he was also a decorated war hero and a promising NSW cricketer who was perhaps also on the verge of selection in the Australian Test team. He had scored 51 and 53 for an Australian XI against the English touring side in Brisbane earlier in December and he had been named as captain of NSW for the game against Queensland in the new year. The demands of his fledgling medical practice had limited his availability this season but in 1st Grade for Gordon his form had been irresistible. 211 (against University) was followed by 131, 110 and 37. Before the War, after a glittering career at the Shore School, he had been one of Sydney University’s most respected 1st Grade cricketers. 2083 runs at 52, including 842 runs in the Premiership side of 1913-14. He had, however, played his last game of cricket.

On Tuesday 21 December, Tozer parked his car in Tryon Road Lindfield and walked to the house known as ‘Inglebrae’, the home of Harold and Dorothy Mort and their family. Harold, a civil engineer, was at work. Dorothy was at home with the maid and two children. She was agitated, irrational, distracted but she had asked Dr Tozer to visit her. He had been reluctant to continue their professional relationship of doctor/patient and their physical relationship. Mrs Mort asked Tozer to wait in the drawing room where she had hidden a recently purchased pistol. She entered the room, sat next to Tozer on the couch, passed him a photo of herself inscribed with “…from the woman you swore you loved…” and fired a single bullet into his head.

On Wednesday 22 December, the Australian team took to the field at the SCG wearing black armbands.

It was not the first time that cricketers had worn black armbands for Dr Tozer. In October 1915, a rumour swept around Sydney that Captain Tozer had been killed by a Turkish bullet at Gallipoli. He survived Gallipoli and survived awful wounds on the Western Front in 1917. But he could not escape a bullet fired by a distraught housewife on the morning of 21 December 1921, 100 years ago today.

When the Club held a dinner in 1977 to honour those who had played for Sydney University in the early seasons of the 20th century, various names flew in and out of conversations as distant memories were brought to life again. When Tozer’s name was mentioned, however, the octogenarians fell unusually quiet, subdued, reserved, not willing to say too much. Some had played with him; some against him; some had served with him in the Great War. They respected him, but…in their minds, his name was forever associated with a scandal.  He was an unmarried doctor carrying on an affair with a married woman who was his patient! A doctor murdered by his patient!

The full story has now been told. In particular, in Bonnell and Rodgers, ‘Golden Blues’ pp 109-116, a biography predominantly written by Max Bonnell. Then there is Greg Growden’s book ‘Bowled By A Bullet: The Tragic Life of Claude Tozer.’

What happened to Mrs Mort?

Read the books!

 CJ Tozer:

Shore 1st XI 1905-09. 47-6-261-1909-46.50

 1st Grade (University, Sydney, Gordon) 1909-20. 78-13-211-3164-48.67

 1st class 1910-20. 12-1-103-514-46.72

 James Rodgers

 

Match Reports - Round 7 vs Hawkesbury CC 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, George's River CC (MB) & Gordon CC (MG)

Match Reports - Round 7 vs Hawkesbury CC 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, George's River CC (MB) & Gordon CC (MG)

MATCH REPORTS - ROUND 7

MATCH REPORT - 1ST GRADE VS HAWKESBURY AT OWEN EARLE OVAL (DAY 2)

SUCC 7/248 dec
55.0 overs

N Larkin 143 (134)
B Joy 2/32/13.0 overs & 4/30/16.0

&

3/43
7.0 overs

DEF O/R & FIRST INNINGS

Hawkesbury 99
38.4 overs

&

188
70.3 overs

JA Brett 64 (93)
MN Shinwari 2/28/10.0 & 2/26/4.0

The much-anticipated trip to Benson’s Lane couldn’t have come at a better time, fresh off a clutch victory against the ND’s. With temperatures rumoured threatening the mid-40’s, the flies aplenty and Benson’s gorgeous ‘manure-scented-dam-cooled’ breeze, the boys were pumped for retribution for our T20 defeat to the Hawks just a few weeks prior. Cass did his best for the batters by forgetting the NASH, and a winning toss saw us heading into the field.

On a wicket that looked to offer a bit, Cass made the early breakthrough. On his much-awaited return, Devlin wasted no time in making an impact with a direct hit runout leaving the Hawks two down early. And didn’t he love it! With the two dangermen at the crease, Robbo brought on Dugs to extract some spice from the wicket. Some fast-short pitched bowling soon saw Dugs in on the action; Qureshi edging the carrot behind to TC for a comfortable catch. Robbo then gave TC his second catch of the morning, with Mckay strangled down the leg side for 10. The Hawks scrambling at 4-30. After another wicket to Cass, the students sniffed an opportunity to wrap up our time in the field before the hottest part of the day arrived. An inventive counter attack from keeper Ryan Mizzi saw the ball fly to all parts of Owen Earle, and provided some much-needed hope for the Hawks in setting a competitive total. BJ’s impressive season continued, as he and Dev sustained the pressure and quickly dismantled the Hawks tail with two wickets each. Dugs returned, taking Mizzi for the last wicket. The Hawks 99 all out. 

Nick and Niv made early inroads to the Hawks score, Niv solid in defence as Nick consistently rattled the pickets behind point as we see so often. The opening partnership untested until the scored reached 71. With one hand on six points, we began to accelerate. Nick looked towards the BBL as he sent four big sixes out of Owen Earle, accompanied by his 17 fours which saw him end up on 143. Robbo the other batsman to get going, finishing not out on 36. The students ending the day 7/278.

After some poorly adjudicated NASH, some standard Mortimer carry-on and some warm-up mind games with the Hawks, Robbo declared the innings closed giving us the full 96 for a crack at 10 points. The morning session started slowly, with the wicket looking far more batter friendly than the previous week. With 15 minutes to lunch and the score at 89, BJ made the opening breakthrough as he has done so often this year. Then another. And another. The students on top again as we took the Hawks to lunch at 3-96. With the wicket offering little for the quicks, Dev and Niv took the reins and spun their way through the middle session and the Hawks batting order. Dev and BJ finishing with four apiece, and Niv with two.

With rain threatening and 40 to get, the batters went on the attack. Dummer, Morts and TC all hit boundaries to chase down the modest target in seven overs, taking the Students to the top of the table. 

C Dummer

MATCH REPORT - 2ND GRADE VS HAWKESBURY AT UNIVERSITY OVAL (DAY 2)

SUCC 3/171
38.0 overs

D Miller 74* (122)
K Tate 2/25/13.0 & 3/33/20.2

&

6/122
27.0 overs

DEF

Hawkesbury 166
51.3 overs

GP Venica-Singh 40 (25)
C De Kretser 2/53/9.0

&

Hawkesbury 181
70.2 overs

I Walker 46 (106)
B Roughan 3/33/9.0

MATCH REPORT - 3RD GRADE VS HAWKESBURY AT BENSONS LANE OVAL 2 (50 OVER)

SUCC 5/231
50.0 overs

AG Shaw 100 (119)
R Greaves 3/33/9.3

DEF

Hawkesbury 210
48.3 overs

B Bradshaw 37 (35)
S Khan 2/41/9.0

Round 6 saw the Books make the long journey out to Bensons Lane to take on the mighty Hawks. This match will be remembered for two things: Alex Shaw’s delectable century and the last gasp Nash Ball victory by ‘The Olds’.

The Olds were looking to maintain their undefeated streak and it appeared to be another clinical performance as they bossed their way to a 2-0 lead. The match took an incredible turn as Hayden Storey (who had been driven to the ground by his father after attending his work Christmas party the night before) complacently abandoned his position as goalkeeper to roam forward and join the attack. The Young were able to capitalise and scored two soccer goals to go ahead 4-2. 

Things were looking dire for the Olds who were clearly rattled by their late collapse, however there was still time for one last drive forward. Alex Shaw won the ball at left fullback and was able to beat a man, he marauded forward and got his head up, Shaw played an appetising long diagonal ball to Hill who was unmarked on the right wing. With the ball landing in Hill’s burrowsome lap he assessed his options and saw Michael Robinson ghost towards the back post with Brayden Dilley isolated at centre back. A delicious left to right spiral pass was thrown on top of the head of Dilley who was left rooted to the spot as Robinson launched himself at the ball and met it with a downward header that beat an outstretched Matt Johns (who had been brilliant in goals thus far). Pandemonium ensued as the final score read 6-4… much to the bemusement of the Hawkesbury players and supporters who were wondering why these five idiots were running around hooting and hollering like they had just won a grand final.

Due to a biblical storm on Thursday evening the covers at Bensons had been blown off and the pitch left somewhat wet. This coaxed the Hawkesbury captain into bowling first as he won the toss.

Dilley (33) and Storey (27) were measured in the opening overs and were able to lay a sound platform as they absorbed the early pressure and counter punched with great efficiency. The dismissal of Storey brought Shaw (100) to the crease and he began to accumulate in typical fashion. A couple of quick wickets fell towards the end of the middle season and Nivek Tanner (53*) joined Shaw. They increased the pace expertly and were able to dismember the Hawks attack who had no answers to the exquisite stroke play on offer. 5/231 was the final score and the Students were quietly confident with their position at halftime.

Hawkesbury were measured in the early exchanges of their innings and their middle order all made starts, threatening to take the game away from us at different stages. Our bowlers to their credit stuck to their task and were able to find timely breakthroughs, with each wicket came an increase in pressure that ultimately was the undoing of the Hawkesbury chase. Pick of the bowlers were Rex Greaves (3-39) and Niv Tanner (2-32).

Back to back wins for the 3s boys who are aiming to sit in the top six at the Christmas break. Another tough encounter awaits in the form of Eastern Suburbs Dolphins.

J Hill

MATCH REPORT - 4TH GRADE VS HAWKESBURY AT ST PAUL’S OVAL (50 OVER)

SUCC 192
42.1 overs

C Hathurusinghe 29
S Canagasingham 3/16/10.0

DEF

Hawkesbury 135
41.1 overs

LA Devaney 38
M Abdullah 3/45/10.0

Due to some scheduling snafus (snafi?) the 4s boys went unreported the last two weeks or so (we lost then won FYI). At any rate, your scribe is back with a summary of another comfortable victory to the Students which leaves us 2nd on the table via the remarkable situation of the bees also being 5 from 6 after being bowled out for 40 batting 2nd last week…

An intriguing pitch met the Books as we returned to Fortress Paul’s and as arrogance dictated we won the toss and elected to bat first. There were some new faces on show earning a cap in 2020/21, or so it seemed (actual caps tbc via our man circumventing an embargo via the SA shipping facility, the details of which are not suitable for publication in this forum or indeed knowledge of whatsoever).

At any rate, Adam Sidhu made his 4th grade debut (after playing a few PGs games etc), and the key attraction was Kevin Jacob coming back to the fold. The great man has played at all levels, 3s finals, 1st class Canberra, whatever he’s been doing the past 2 years, etc and so on. So it was nice to have him back on board.  

And wouldn’t you know it, they were paired together. 

Kevvy and Sids strode to the crease and made things look remarkably easy. Such was their dominance that their 6 over 43 run partnership (with a fair amount of sundries) took them to a grand position. Which they promptly got out and the next bunch of us tried to assume it was easy. 1/55 became 7/116 and all of a sudden the Books were looking for a cheeky latter order bombardment, for the 2nd time this year.

Enter Prakhar Sharma and Shehan “Cantgetoutasingham” (sic). A couple of interesting moments (the bloke at cover missing a catch whilst trying to grab it one-handed for some reason, however the result was a game defining 40 run partnership that set the Hawks 193 to win.

Bowling wise it was a great start from the big quick Cullen, with two early wickets to unplayable deliveries. Shehan carried on his great form with a typically miserly 3/16 from his 10, and strong work from Lew Ansell, Prakhar and Peter Brazzers meant that the Hawks were never really in the hunt, and when the final catch was taken it was a pretty comfortable 60 run victory to the good guys.

Next week another stern test awaits against the roosters at Trumper Park, and a chance to cement our spot in the top two and continue to roll on to xmas and beyond.

A Cowan

MATCH REPORT - 5TH GRADE VS HAWKESBURY AT BENSONS LANE OVAL 3 (50 OVER)

SUCC 30
17.5 overs

M Shanahan 1/12/4.0
M Miles 1/12/4.0

DEF BY

Hawkesbury 2/35
8.3 overs

C Lucas 16*
J Chapman 4/8/8.5

After making the journey to Bensons Lane we hope to turn our seasons luck around and put out a good performance on the field.

The lads were out there early looking at the deck and trying to make some early plans on what might be a good scenario!

Warm up was started with a healthy game of Nash and some competitive drills lead by our director of cricket Cam Borgas trying to get a positive start to the days proceedings.

Hawkesbury won the toss and elected to bowl!

It was all down hill from there! We batted poorly to say the least! It was a stream of wickets and our top scorer being sundries on 10 our highest team score was 4 and we had 5 players not troubling the scorers. Our day was over before it began posting a total of 30.

Hawkesbury chases the runs with 8 wickets in hand and It’s back to the drawing board again.

T Lamont

MATCH REPORT - METRO GOLD VS GORDON CC AT ST PAUL’S OVAL (50 OVER)

SUCC 225
49.5 overs

R Varatharajah 52 (47)
Y Dalvi 3/20/5.0

DEF

Gordon 212
47.5 overs

N Russo 66 (56)
J Woods 5/31/7.5

MATCH REPORT - METRO BLUE VS GEORGES RIVER CC AT BLAND OVAL (50 OVER)

SUCC 6/157
29.2 overs

DEF

Georges River 156
41.3 overs

T Sherwin 42
M Magoulias 2/27/5.0

Match Reports - Round 7 vs Hawkesbury CC (Day 1 - 1s, 2s), Gordon CC (3s, 4s, 5s), George's River CC (MG)

Match Reports - Round 7 vs Hawkesbury CC (Day 1 - 1s, 2s), Gordon CC (3s, 4s, 5s), George's River CC (MG)

MATCH REPORTS - ROUND 7

MATCH REPORT - 1ST GRADE VS HAWKESBURY AT OWEN EARLE OVAL (DAY 1)

SUCC 7/248
55.0 overs

N Larkin 143 (134)
C Cassell 2/12/7.0

VS

Hawkesbury 99
38.4 overs

R Mizzi 44 (55)
MN Shinwari 2/28/10.0

MATCH REPORT - 2ND GRADE VS HAWKESBURY AT UNIVERSITY OVAL (DAY 1)

SUCC 3/171
38.0 overs

D Miller 74* (122)
B Mitchell 4/32/11.0

VS

Hawkesbury 166
51.3 overs

GP Venica-Singh 40 (25)
C De Kretser 2/53/9.0

&

Hawkesbury 1/8
4.0 overs


The boys were back playing cricket at number one oval! Fresh off the back of a first innings win against Northern Districts. With temperatures set to pass forty degrees the plan was to have a bat on a pretty good wicket. But Popey didn’t hold up his end of the bargain by losing the toss.

Never the less the Students were keen to rip in. Nash was a tough and gritty 1-1 draw. In the warm conditions 2-way running was limited. Even with the return of arguably the country’s best player in Jack Lawson, the scores were unable to be separated. It was now time for the Dippy Schmoo’s to send a few down.

The returning Kieran Tate opened the bowling and always looked likely but couldn’t quite break through in his opening spell. Henry “Wrongsy” Clark did manage a break through when he bowled the Hawkesbury opener for just 3, with the perfect line and length hitting the top of off stump. The introduction of first change bowler Ben Mitchell proved a masterstroke from Skipper Max Hope. With “Booza” going on to take 4fa in his opening spell. Drawing comparisons to Stuart Broad with the angle in and nipping them away.

The visitors were reeling at 7/65 at lunch. With additional wickets to Tatey and “the poor mans Pavel Florin”. Hawkesbury managed to get to a total of 166 with some lower-order hitting frustrating the Students. Tea was then taken and then “the books” set about chasing the total. Litchy got a short, wide and slow one with his name on it that he melted to point. Leaving the students 1/0. Milfy and Fullers then steadied the chase in putting on 83 for the 2nd wicket partnership. Fullers then fell to an absolute screamer of a caught and bowled with 83 still required.

Booza then came to the crease to make a run a ball 29 and was dismissed in trying to take the game forward. This brought Mooey into the game, making 34 off 13 pills, mincing them to all parts managing to clear the rope 3 times in 3 consecutive balls. This got the students to 3-171d with the hero of the innings of the being Milfy in making a well-paced 74 which anchored the boys to the total.

We had 4 overs to bowl after the declaration and it was that man again, Clarkey, who got the single breakthrough. Leaving the Hawkesbury side at 1/8 at stumps.

Overall a dominant day for the Sydney Uni fellas setting up a promising day 2 next week.

Gwynnie

MATCH REPORT - 3RD GRADE VS GORDON CC AT ST PAUL’S OVAL (50 Over)

SUCC 4/187
43.4 overs

ND Tanner 70*
S Anandarajah 2/29/10.0

DEF

Gordon CC 184
47.4 overs

M Fletcher 58
S Read 2/38/7.4

MATCH REPORT - 4TH GRADE VS GORDON CC AT KILLARA PARK (50 Over)

SUCC 301
50.0 overs

M Powys 133 (130)
C Hathurusinghe 3/46/10.0

DEF

Gordon CC 209
48.1 overs

NM Astridge 43
M Brown 4/51/10.0

MATCH REPORT - 5TH GRADE VS GORDON CC AT BEAUCHAMP OVAL (50 Over)

SUCC 256
49.2 overs

H Cain 58
T Lamont 5/33/8.0

DEF BY

Gordon CC 6/258
47.1 overs

A Gobinath 63
M Keane 5/37/10.0

MATCH REPORT - METRO GOLD VS GEORGE’S RIVER CC AT ST PAUL’S OVAL (50 Over)

SUCC 166
41.3 overs

J Mahony 61
J Manson-Lill 4/11/3.5

DEF BY

George’s River CC 173
48.0 overs

N Blanda 77
R Singh 5/20/6.3

Match Reports - Round 6 vs Northern Districts CC (Day 2 - 1s, 2s)

Match Reports - Round 6 vs Northern Districts CC (Day 2 - 1s, 2s)

MATCH REPORTS - ROUND 6

MATCH REPORT - 1ST GRADE VS NORTHERN DISTRICTS AT UNIVERSITY OVAL (DAY 2)

SUCC 9/313
92.0 overs

TP Cummins 101 (161)
N Radhakrishnan 3/65/27.2

DEF

Northern Districts 307
97.2 overs

CD Miller 79 (231)
RR Pawson 4/55/19.0


A methodical victory to the bowlers in Nash provided the cartel with confidence ahead of the bowling day ahead. We welcomed back Nicko this week to add to our dual-arm bowling depths. The pitch was being used for a 3rd day and was slower than the week prior but the outfield had quickened up slightly. Dos and Cass opened the bowling without making any inroads but had kept it tight all the same. The sustained pressure helped lead to a tight run and our lead dual-arm bowler Niv threw down the stumps from side on and three quarters to the boundary to run out the Rangers opening batsman. Very naughty stuff! BJ dump-trucked his way through his first spell before dangling an enticing carrot to the NDs number 3 who willingly obliged to throw his hands at it and consequently nicked it behind. Wicket 2 to the Books. Both teams toiled to lunch with honours even at the lunch break.

The middle session was a war of attrition with the Units creating plenty of half chances but not being able to capitalise. Niv bowled particularly well with the surface starting to help his off-spin. They grabbed the NDs 3rd wicket shortly before tea but had kept the required run rate climbing to 4 or so an over. You could sense that the game was going to go deep with every passing over however 7 wickets in the final session becoming a larger task by every passing over.

After tea, something was going to break either way and it was a firmly hit cut shot that was intercepted by the flinging right arm of Dos that broke the game open. The tempo of the game lifted with another wicket falling but ND’s keeping the run rate under 5 an over. Uni took the new ball with 18 overs to go and the Rangers requiring approx. 90 runs with 5 wickets in hand.

BJ was Herculean in charging in from the southern end for a good 90 minutes in the last session. The bold decision to bowl bumpers by Dugald with 3 out on the legside was matched equally with Dugald’s willingness and ability to execute the short pitch theory for 5-6 overs straight on a wearing wicket. At one stage, NDs needed 12 to win with 4 wickets remaining and 3 overs to go. Niv entered the attack to turn the game. The number 8 was well caught at mid off by BJ and then taking the big scalp of Rodgie in the same over. Holloway then bumped out the number 10 to leave NDs requiring 7 to win off the last over with 1 wicket remaining. Niv was bowling. The first ball was a dot. The second ball was a well hit drive along the ground straight back to Niv who intentionally accidentally fumbled the ball for it to tunnel ball and hit the stumps. The non-striker was left stranded out of his crease after backing up for the quick run. The realisation hit that he was run out and we had won an unlikely victory. Pandemonium ensued with Niv impersonating an Imran Tahir celebration and the rest of the team carrying on like it was an aeroplane jelly commercial. What a win!

The Rangers were graceful in defeat and we shared a few beers after the game to dissect what was an incredible game.

Tim Cummins 

MATCH REPORT - 2ND GRADE VS NORTHERN DISTRICTS AT MARK TAYLOR OVAL (DAY 2)

SUCC 181
62.3 overs

C Litchfield 85 (150)
R Greaves 3/27/14.0

DEF

Northern Districts 166 & 2/84
72.3 overs

JH Anderson 90 (162)
CA Soper 6/48/28.3

SUCC win on first innings

Due to a delayed start the previous week thanks to some drama involving covers, rain, wind and a groundsman who had changed into civvies, a new and improved start time of 10:22am meant that warm up and Nash began at the exact same time of 9:30am. Country with an extra man finally showed some sort of structure and put the only points on the board for the game. Small victories these days.

Sydney University began the day at 2/72 chasing 166 on a deck that was doing bits at one end and bounced true at the other. Northern Districts Skipper JH Anderson took one look at the first ball delivered by Chad Soper from the PCYC end which almost took out JJ’s ankle and decided that he would bowl unchanged for 22 overs. An impressive effort which yielded figures of 6/48 from 28. After losing JJ at 3/99, then the returning Dave Miller at 4/130 and then Charles Litchfield who’s 85 had anchored the SUCC innings from the start, a quick flurry of wickets from Soper left the 2s reeling at 6/147.

Joining Andrew Hazard in the middle was Two Strapped Keeping Pads Henry Clark, who at the Lunch Break had discussed that the remaining 19 runs did not have to come from boundaries. After stroking 4 brilliant boundaries, and then a dubious run out of Hazard whilst following the only singles plan, Henry guided Sydney University home for a tense victory which left Popey eager to tuck into a few after another less than stellar run chase.

After batting on and setting a small lead, the SUCC lads decided to send the Rangers in for a second dig, and again Clarkey struck first with an LBW which everyone (including the opening batsmen) could agree was out. The Rangers decided to bat on as the middle order were lacking batting practice, and the game was called 3 overs after compulsory (not provided) tea.

6 points to the students.

Oli Zannino