Please find attached the 2017/18 NSW Premier Cricket 1st Grade Statistical Review.

Feel free to add any comments that you have regarding the review.

Sydney Grade Cricket Review 2017-18

The overall statistics for the male division Australian Country Cricket Championships.

ACCC Statistics 2018

The statistics booklet for the female division of the 2017/18 Australian Country Cricket Championships.

ACCC Womens Statistics 2017-18

The statistics for the male division of the 2017/18 Australian Country Cricket Championships.

ACCC Statistics 2017-18

When Harry Nielsen and Nick Winter made their Sheffield Shield debut in the second half of the 2017/18 Australian season, they became only the fifth pair of debutants to create an unusual record.

Harry Nielsen made a century in the South Australian 1st Innings and Nick Winter took 5 wickets in the Victorian 1st Innings, they became only the fifth pair of Sheffield Shield debutants to score a century and take 5 wickets in an innings on debut.

The first pair that did this record was in the first Sheffield Shield match in 1892/93 at the Adelaide Oval when Harry Donnan made 120 in New South Wales’ total of 337 and then Michael Pierce took 8 for 111 in 46.3 overs in the South Australian innings.

The second pair that did this unusual feat was in the next Sheffield Shield match, when New South Wales travelled to the Melbourne Cricket Ground to take on Victoria in their inaugural Shield match. Batting first, New South Wales was dismissed for just 197 with Bob McLeod taking 6 for 54. In reply Victoria made 375 with William Bruce making 128.

It took another 54 years for these feats to be added to. It was in the 1946/47 season, which was the Sheffield Shield’s first season after the end of World War II. In their first home match of the season at the MCG, Victoria after winning the toss and batting first made 543 with debutant and future Test batsman Sax Loxton making an unbeaten 232 in just 334 minutes. In reply, Allan Jinks in his first Sheffield Shield match (after playing two first-class matches against Tasmania in 1935/36) took 5 for 42 off 20 overs with his off breaks.

45 years later, it was a pair from Western Australia to join the list in 1991. Western Australia travelled to Junction Oval in St Kilda to take on Victoria. Mark Lavender made 118 off 300 balls to score a century on debut, putting on a 194 run partnership with Graeme Wood. Western Australia declared on 6 for 418. In reply, Victoria were dismissed for 342 with future England bowler Martin McCague taking 5 for 105 on debut.

And finally, in February 2018, the most current pair of debutants made the list. Harry Nielsen made his Sheffield Shield debut and made 105 off 182 balls, helping South Australia make 379, in the process putting on 143 for the 7th wicket with Joe Mennie. In reply, Victoria fell just short of the South Australian total, being dismissed for 371. Former ACT player, Nick Winter on debut took 5 for 85 off 27 overs.

100 and 5 wickets on debut in the 1st Innings by debutants in a Sheffield Shield Match:

1892/93 – H Donnan/M Pierce (NSW v SA)

1892/93 – W Bruce/RW McLeod (Vic v NSW)

1946/47 – SJE Loxton/A Jinks (Vic v Qld)

1990/91 – MP Lavender/MJ McCague (WA v Vic)

2017/18 – HJ Nielsen/NP Winter (SA v Vic)

As you may know I have been working on a number of writing projects. I have decided to delay the publication of the history of the Prime Minister’s XI book until next year as the Prime Minister’s XI match will be played in October this year instead of much later in the season. Therefore I hope the book will include the match as it is the 40th match in the series of matches.

I have now started work on a long term of project which will have all the details of every player to have played for the Australian Capital Territory which will incorporate the research I have been doing on the 755 players who have played for the Territory.

Below is the first page in the book which is a draft for feedback. Please let me know what you think of it through the comments field. The first page covers the players who have played for the ACT with the surname A.

Adam

ACT A to Z Page 1

I am currently researching the biographical details of players who have played for the ACT. There are currently 756 players of which I am missing 169. The information that I am looking for are full names (including middle names), date of birth/death, place of birth/death, batting and bowling styles. Below are the players which I am currently missing and would appreciate any assistance in tracking these details down:

This season’s NSW Premier 1st Grade final will be between Parramatta and Sydney University and will be the 65th Final. The last time these two teams played in a two-day final was in the 1909/10 season when Sydney University defeated Central Cumberland on the first innings.

Attached is the trivia for the NSW Premier 1st Grade finals.

Sydney 1st Grade Finals Trivia

Today, Jono and Blake Dean set a mammoth amount of records in the ACT 1st Grade Semi Final for Weston Creek Molonglo against Queanbeyan. Weston Creek finally declared at 9-668 after Blake Dean batting at number eight in the innings was dismissed for 291. Earlier in the day, Jono Dean was dismissed for 205.

Below are some of the records which have been set today:

Team Records

Highest ever innings by Weston Creek Molonglo in 1st Grade
2nd highest innings ever in 1st Grade history
2nd highest innings ever in a 1st Grade semi final
Highest ever innings at Stirling Oval
Highest ever innings in 1st Grade against Queanbeyan
Highest ever innings in 1st Grade where a team hasn’t been dismissed
1st time in ACT 1st Grade history that all 11 players have bowled in the same innings

Individual

Jono Dean
Highest ever innings by a Weston Creek Molonglo 1st Grade player at Stirling Oval
Highest ever innings in a 1st Grade Semi-Final (since passed by Blake Dean in the same innings)
Moved into 13th place overall on the leading run scorers in 1st Grade
1st person to record 3 scores over 200 in 1st Grade
3rd highest indivdual innings for a Weston Creek Molonglo 1st Grade player
Passed 2000 runs in ACT 1st Grade for Weston Creek Molonglo
Highest score by a number five batsman in 1st Grade for Weston Creek Molonglo
29th double century in all grades in ACT Grade Cricket

Blake Dean
Highest ever score for a Number 8 batsman in 1st Grade
Passed his highest score in 1st Grade
Highest ever score for a Number 8 batsman in 1st Grade for Weston Creek
2nd highest indivdual innings for a Weston Creek Molonglo 1st Grade player
Highest ever innings in a 1st Grade Semi-Final
Highest ever innings in 1st Grade against Queanbeyan
Highest ever innings in 1st Grade for Weston Creek Molonglo
Highest ever innings in Grade cricket for a Weston Creek Molonglo player at Stirling Oval
Highest ever innings in a 1st Grade Semi-Final or Final in 1st Grade
Highest ever innings in Grade cricket for Weston Creek Molonglo
3rd Highest ever innings in 1st Grade cricket
Highest ever innings in all cricket for Weston Creek Molonglo
Highest ever innings at Stirling Oval
30th double century in all grades in ACT Grade Cricket

Jono Dean/Blake Dean
Highest ever 1st Grade partnership for the 7th wicket for Weston Creek Molonglo
3rd highest partnership for Weston Creek Molonglo in 1st Grade for any wicket
2nd highest partnership in 1st Grade for the 7th wicket
1st time that two double centuries are scored in the same 1st Grade innings

Blake Dean/Lewis Evans
Highest ever 1st Grade partnership for the 9th wicket for Weston Creek Molonglo
Highest ever 1st Grade partnership for the 9th wicket in ACT 1st Grade

This is a short analysis of the Comets (both the ACT up to 2016/17 and ACT/NSW Country) in the Futures League and previously the Cricket Australia Cup.

This refers to only the 3-day and 4-day versions of the competition and doesn’t include the Futures League T20 competition (often referred to as the Baby Bash).

The analysis currently goes back to the 2006/07 season.

This table shows the percentage of players and their location when playing for the ACT and ACT/NSW Country Comets. When Brad Haddin and David Dawson played for the ACT during this time they are considered as Ex-ACT players as they previously played Grade cricket in Canberra.

Grade players refers to players who were currently playing Grade cricket in Canberra at the time they were picked to play for the Comets during that season.

Ex-ACT refers to players who had previously played in Grade cricket in Canberra but were then picked to play for the Comets in that season. Players were playing either in the Adelaide or Sydney grade competitions.

Country refers to players selected who were playing in grade cricket competitions in country New South Wales. Currently this has only been the Newcastle grade competition.

NSW refers to players selected to play for the Comets but have no connection to cricket in Canberra other than playing for the Comets. Players started playing for the Comets from the 2014/15 season under the Memorandum of Understanding between Cricket ACT and Cricket NSW. From the 2017/18 season, the Comets name was changed from ACT to ACT/NSW Country and contained NSW contracted players who had a link to NSW Country areas.

Matches refer to the number of selections for the season. In this case. Some seasons, 4 matches were played while some seasons 6 matches were played.

From 2006/07 to 2008/09, the Comets finished 6th in each season. In each of these seasons, all of the players were ACT Grade players or Ex-ACT players from interstate grade competitions. These were generally one to three players in total each season.

2009/10 to 2013/14 saw grade players from the Newcastle grade competition playing in the side. This has generally been the most successful time in the competition, finishing 3rd in 2009/10, 4th in 2012/13 and winning the competition in 2010/11. The percentage of grade players reached a maximum in 2013/14 where 94% of selections were ACT grade players.

From 2014/15 to 2017/18 saw a memorandum of understanding between Cricket NSW and Cricket ACT which ultimately saw the renaming of the Comets from ACT to ACT/NSW Country. This period saw no players from NSW Country grade competitions selected in the side and the number of selections with no background in Canberra cricket rising from 20% in 2015/16 to 51% in 2017/18. The percentage of selections from ACT grade cricket reached an all time low of 22% in 2017/18. When the memorandum of understanding came into effect in 2014/15, the percentage of selections from ACT grade cricket dropped from 94% in 2013/14 to 42% in 2014/15. In each of the seasons from 2014/15 to currently in 2017/18, the finishing position of the Comets has been last place.