NSW Premier Cricket: Rd 3 Players of the Week, wrap, Sydney first grade results, records
A 20-year-old continues to turn heads while a rising star found form in round three of NSW Premier Cricket. Sydney first grade wrap, Players of the Week and full results.
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Just one player racked up a century in an interesting - and at times soggy - third round of NSW Premier Cricket where the generation next of the sport stole the limelight.
Mosman heads the Belvidere Cup ladder with three wins from the first three outings of the season with their latest victory coming off the back of one of their youngest and brightest stars in Lachie Hearne.
The Whales are just one of four clubs to boast a perfect record after three rounds of Premier Cricket in Sydney with Northern Districts, St George and Sydney also winning their third matches on Saturday.
ROUND THREE ACTION IN PICTURES
UTS North Sydney is fifth, Eastern Suburbs are sixth, Gordon are seventh on the leaders board and Randwick Petersham eighth.
All these clubs have two wins from the first three games of the season.
Only Blacktown Mounties and Campbelltown Camden are without a win to date.
MOSMAN CRICKET YOUNG GUN LACHLAN HEARNE STARS
Identified as a star of the future when elevated from a NSW rookies contract for the 2021/22 season, Lachlan Hearne was one of the guns of Sydney first grade on the weekend.
Hearne, who made his first-class debut for the Blues last season, came in for Mosman at 1-0 after two balls of Mosman’s innings against Sutherland.
He stayed in to make 105 not out and with Jordan Cox inspired Mosman to 2-184 and their victory against Sutherland
It was the sixth first grade century for Hearne, a left-handed top-order batsman and considered one of the brightest talents in the state.
JOEL DAVIES HITS HIS STRAPS FOR MANLY WARRINGAH
Over on the northern beaches another young gun helped his team, to victory in Sydney first grade.
The schoolboy, who is the younger brother of BBL and Sheffield Shield player Ollie Davies, came out hard against Western Suburbs as Manly Warringah chased their first win of the season.
After a forgettable first grade debut a week earlier, Davies found form to score 70 and left the pitch as the top scorer of the match.
NSW PREMIER CRICKET ROUND 3 PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Lachie Hearne and Joel Davies were among a host of standout players who have made the Player of the Week list.
Hearne was joined at 2-4 by teammate Jordan Cox, who made 70 not out. The pair took Mosman to their 2-184 and victory over Sutherland after 28.2 overs.
Justin Avendano (UTS-North Sydney) needed just one run to bring up 5000 first-grade runs. He did it easily with his 29 taking him to 5028 runs at 37.80.
Jack Preddey from Easts faced the last over from UNSW requiring five runs for victory.
He took 0, 2, 2, 2 to win with two balls remaining. This left him on 98 not out and was his 10th first-grade half-century.
In a standout bowling performance, UNSW’s Declan White took 6-44, his fifth five-wicket performance.
St George cricketer Jonathon Craig Dobson had the second best bowling figures of the day with his 6-45 against Penrith in only his 12th first grade match. .
NSW PREMIER CRICKET ROUND THREE RESULTS
Northern District 4/237 LD Shaw 54* DA Lowery 50 CJ Green 37 SA Rodgie 25* JM Wholohan 2/46 L Courtney 2/47 def Hawkesbury 6/235 (cc) DJ Mckay 58 RR Hicks 42 R Mizzi 31 S Baldwin 29* C Mizzi 26 at Asquith Oval
Gordon 9/171 (cc) T Brar 47 M Wright 25 L Dempsey 2/12 J Workman 2/29 O Simonsen 2/42 def by Parramatta 8/172 N Bertus 74 H Goulstone 37 QL Titterton 3/33 M Wright 2/32 at Chatswood Oval
Sydney 221 N Ahluwalia 64 J Mosca 50 G Singh 4/32 MN Shinwari 2/35 JN Burke 2/47 def Fairfield-Liverpool 170 N Glynn 33 Y Sharma 25 CA Di Blasio 4/36 RE Felsch 2/21 AD Glendenning 2/23 at Drummoyne Oval
Sutherland 183 C Weatherall 53 T Pinson 37* DJ Crawford 3/29 JD Park 2/31 JM Turner 2/39 def by Mosman 2/184 LD Hearne 105* JM Cox 70* at Glenn McGrath Oval
St George 6/234 B Nikitaras 50 L Bartier 45 T Vane Tempest 41* BD Macdonald 39 J Browne 3/37 JK Lalor 2/41 def Penrith 232 JN Watson 70* N Adams 58 J Craig Dobson 6/45 J Moors 2/40 at Hurstville Oval
Blacktown Mounties 212 M Day 52 S Doshi 31 J Wood 30 JM DiBartolo 26 J Campbell 4/39 O Knight 4/63 def by UTS North Sydney 6/216 JN James 57 O Knight 53 BS Atherton 50* J Avendano 29 S Raval 2/49 A Riaz 2/50 at Joe McAleer Reserve
Manly-Warringah 7/171 J Davies 70 R Farrell 25 J Bermingham 4/43 def Western Suburbs 170 JA Clarke 46 JG Psarakis 41 NJ Cutler 33 ER Herd 3/45 T Lammonby 2/26 J Carden 2/36 at Manly Oval
Campbelltown-Camden 9/169 (cc) A Whatley 40 BT Smith 33 T Van Luin 4/22 L Marshall 3/35 def by Bankstown 2/170 N Carruthers 75 D Solway 49 Z Ahmed 26* at Raby Oval 1
Sydney University 118 LS Robertson 37 D Mortimer 27 JT Ralston 4/27 A Semple 3/22 def by Randwick Petersham 173 R Ayre 37 D Singh 28 A Semple 26 K Tate 2/30 CD Maladay 2/37 at University Oval, Sydney University
Eastern Suburbs 8/278 JP Preddey 98* AJ Robson 39 WA Simpson 39 UH Mehta 32 DO White 6/44 def UNSW 7/277 (cc) TJ Scoble 73 JR Attenborough 64 BJ McLean 57 S Skelly 3/48 at Waverley Oval
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