English cricketer Mark Stoneman stars in NSW Premier Cricket, Rd 7 players of week, results

England might have suffered a batting collapse in the Ashes but in NSW Premier Cricket it was a former international who starred in first grade. Players of the Week and result wrap.

English cricketer Mark Stoneman of St George celebrates his century with Luke Bartier. Pic: Jeremy Ng

He played 11 tests for England and in his first appearance in NSW Premier Cricket this season Mark Stoneman turned it on.

Stepping out for St George, a club he played back in 2006–07, Stoneman scored an impressive 150 off 131 balls in searing temperatures in round seven of NSW Premier Cricket on Saturday.

The century of Stoneman, who has also played with Campbelltown-Camden and Bankstown over the years, is his fifth and highest in first grade.

English cricketer Mark Stoneman acknowledges the crowd after scoring 150 during round seven of the Belvidere Cup first grade NSW Premier Cricket match against Eastern Suburbs. Pic: Jeremy Ng

It also took him past 3000 runs 23051 at 30.21.

The 34-year-old left-handed batsmen from Newcastle Upon Tyne, is playing his eighth season of NSW Premier Cricket.

While BBL players were banned from playing in Premier Cricket on the weekend after a rise in Covid numbers last week, there were still some stellar performances from batsmen and bowlers on the weekend.

Luke Bartier was another star with his 77 in the match.

NSW PREMIER CRICKET PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Big hitter Justin Avendano (UTS North Sydney) was back at it with his third century of the season.

His 122, the 12th of his career, took him past 500 runs for the season (to 563 at 70.37).

Another standout was the century from Fairfield Liverpool player Raveesh Srivastava.

After consecutive 50s early in the season he broke through for his first century (105*) this season.

Robert Aitken was back racking up more milestones on the weekend.

He only scored 10 runs but it took the UTS North Sydney player to 11,415 runs, two past Grant Lambert, and up to number nine on the all-time run-scoring list.

The two are the only players with 11000 runs plus 600 wickets, Lambert having a narrow lead in the latter (626 to 619).

Sutherland, led by Chris Williams, walk on during round the weekend matches.

Mohammad Shinwari produced the best bowling figures of the day, 5-40, taking the last two wickets with consecutive balls to give Fairfield-Liverpool their victory over Parramatta.

It was his third five wicket performance.

Devlin Malone (Sydney) took 3-9 in a T20 match last Sunday and carried that top form into the match on Saturday.

He took 3-61 against UTS North Sydney and has taken at least one wicket in each of his 11 matches this season and has 22 wickets at 16.54.

That is one more wicket than runs he has scored (in seven innings, although he has only been dismissed twice).

Ryan Felsch (Sydney) took 4-35 to join Malone on 22 wickets, at 13.31.

It was his third four-wicket performance of the season, the other two (4-37, 4-35) coming in the first two rounds.

Jack Attenborough of UNSW bats in the match against Penrith.

NSW PREMIER CRICKET ROUND SEVEN RESULTS FOR FIRST GRADE

Sydney University 6-305 (L Robertson 89 R McElduff 74no J Gauci 47 O Zannino 33no C Litchfield 27 D Holloway 21 M Alexander 2-38 J James 2-58) bt UTS North Sydney 7-302 (J Avendano 122 M Jenkins 53no B Atherton 45 A Bariol 25 D Malone 3-61 K Tate 2-60) at North Sydney Oval.

Manly-Warringah 3-272 (A Beadle 93no J Davies 81no T Lammonby 66) bt Bankstown 176 (M Singh 83 B Smith 26 E Deal 21 E Herd 3-32 I Vumbaca 2-5) at Bankstown Oval.

Mosman 219 (D Crawford 56 H Dalton 48 M Calder 29 S McAvoy 28 H Verma 3-45 A Riaz 2-37 S Raval 2-49) b Blacktown Mounties 174 (J Newton 37 Y Theodorakopoulos 26 H Singh 26 M Moran 4-27 T Elliott 2-23 J Turner 2-27) at Joe McAleer Oval.

St George 6-318 (M Stoneman 150 L Bartier 77 B Nikitaras 25 M Sarkies 2-67) bt Eastern Suburbs 254 (J Preddey 65 S Robson 47 U Mehta 29 M Glen 28 A Robson 27 M Atallah 20 N Stapleton 3-29 J Craig Dobson 3-46 J Graham 3-54) at Waverley Oval.

Penrith’s Ryan Fletcher of Penrith appeals for the wicket of Tom Scoble of UNSW during their match-up.

Fairfield-Liverpool 8-234 (R Srivastava 105no L Ohrynowsky 54 H Goulstone 2-43 M Ninneman 2-45) bt Parramatta 203 (R Hackney 88 L Dempsey 35 M Shinwari 5-40 C Frendo 2-38) at Rosedale Oval.

Northern District 4-194 (L Shaw 86 C Miller 70 C Cook 3-46) bt Gordon 8-188 (M Newman 64 J Bekis 31 M Wright 24 R Pawson 3-35 S Rodgie 2-25 L Fisher 2-44) at Chatswood Oval.

Western Suburbs 2-152 (N Cutler 75no J Clarke 29 M Ahmadi 29) bt Hawkesbury 148 (D Mckay 33 R Hicks 33 M Ahmadi 2-16 J Bermingham 2-16 L Ford 2-33 T Brooks 2-41) with 1 bonus point at Owen Earle Oval.

Randwick Petersham 9-261 (W Affleck 60 A Semple 41 C Hawkins 32 R Ayre 29 B Mitchell 21 T Pinson 3-58 A Ritchie 2-41) bt Sutherland 196 (T Pinson 43 T Doyle 42 A Deitz 25 J Biviano 24 J Ralston 4-28 R Ninan 3-41 S Pathak 2-18) at Coogee Oval.

Sydney 9-232 (W Fort 81no M Rodgers 51 C Di Blasio 22 W Salzmann 4-44 O Cole 3-46) bt Campbelltown-Camden 202 (N Appleton 51 B Smith 35 A Whatley 29 R Felsch 4-35 K Anderson 3-44) at Drummoyne Oval.

UNSW 8-210 (J Attenborough 63 E Jamieson 41 B McLean 34 S Hassan 29 J Browne 3-24 H Railz 2-44) bt Penrith 209 (J Browne 73 R Smith 34 A Burton 22 C Weir 21 T Scoble 3-19 R Meppem 2-27 K Padmanabhan 2-34) at David Phillips South Oval.

BELVIDERE CUP STANDINGS AFTER ROUND SEVEN

Northern District 44 Mosman 40 Sydney 31 St George 30 Randwick Petersham 30 UNSW 26 Western Suburbs 25 Manly-Warringah 25 Sydney University 24 Eastern Suburbs 24 Gordon 19 UTS North Sydney 18 Bankstown 14 Penrith 13 Fairfield-Liverpool 13 Parramatta 13 Sutherland 8 Hawkesbury 7 Blacktown Mounties 1 Campbelltown-Camden 1.