NSW Premier Cricket: Sydney brothers just short of Mark, Steve Waugh feat
It was so close but Sydney brothers just missed out on replicating a feat by the Waugh brothers, Mark and Steve, 40 years later.
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Sydney cricketer Justin Mosca is kicking himself.
One more run in Premier Cricket on the weekend and he and his brother would have been part of a remarkable coincidence shared with two of Australia’s most famous siblings, the Waugh twins, 40 years apart.
“It was my own fault to. I got a big excited,’’ said Mosca, who just missed out on consecutive centuries when he was run out for 99 on Saturday while playing against Northern District Cricket Club.
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Mosca became the 141st player dismissed for that score since the competition began in 1893-94 while older brother Anthony scored 132 for his ninth century.
In a remarkable piece of history, NSW cricket statistician Colin Clowes discovered that this same round 40 years ago, a pair of 15-year-old twins ran riot in club cricket.
Mark and Steve Waugh were still a year away from playing in first grade when the Bankstown cricketers both scored a century in the third round of their third and fourth grade cricket competitions.
“I wish I had know about that. That’s cool,’’ said Mosca, who lives at Moorebank and has been with the Sydney club for 11 seasons after playing his junior cricket at Fairfield.
Another run to Justin and he and Anthony would have also been only the seventh set of brothers to score a century in the same innings.
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The 25-year-said said he remembers watching the Waugh brothers as a youngster.
“I used to watch a fair bit of them in the Shield Cup,’’ he said.
“We would go top the SCG or Bankstown Ovals.
“I went to Steve Waugh’s last Test match which was cool.
“I can’t believe the coincidence. I am kicking myself now.’’