Since 1965

This Week In History - 3 Mar

25 February 1966
Norm O’Neill scored 140 in the first innings of the Sheffield Shield match vs Western Australia at the WACA.

25 February 1978
Steve Wishart scored 95 & 107 not out in one afternoon in 3rd Grade vs Nepean at Tonkin Oval – the closest anyone has come to scoring a century in each innings of a match for the club.

25 February 1979
John Dyson scored 197 in the first innings of the Sheffield Shield match vs Tasmania at the SCG.

25 February 2012
Joel Burnett & James Bills put on an unbroken partnership of 183 for the 9th wicket in 2nd Grade vs St.George at Hurstville Oval – the highest 9th wicket partnership for the club. Joel scored 109 not out off 207 balls (17 fours) & James scored 108 not out off 107 balls (17 fours & 2 sixes).

25 February 2017
Steve Smith scored 109 in the second innings of the 1st Test vs India at Pune.

27 February 1977
Steve Rixon scored 128 in the second innings of the Sheffield Shield match vs Victoria at the MCG.

27 February 1999
Third Grade played Petersham-Marrickville at Marrickville Oval in a one-day match after the first week had been washed out and there had been a lot of rain leading up to day two. Sutherland were sent in on a wet pitch and were all out for 34. Mat Duff was filling in for skipper Gavin Kenny, who was on holidays. Mat rang Gav to give him the bad news at the end of the innings. Two hours later, Mat was back on the phone to Gav to advise him that we had bowled Petersham out for 30 – one of the most remarkable victories in the club’s history!

27 February 2003
Glenn McGrath took 7-15 off 7 overs in the World Cup match vs Namibia in Potchefstroom – his best bowling figures in ODIs. He won the Player of the Match award.

28 February 1987
Nick Howard took 5-39 in the second innings in 2nd Grade vs Fairfield at Caringbah Oval. He had taken 5-23 in the first innings the previous week to give him match figures of 10-62.

28 February 2010
Sutherland won the 1st Grade Limited Overs Cup by defeating Sydney University at Glenn McGrath Oval. The team was captained by Matthew Hughston and Andre Adams won the Player of the Match Award.
Sutherland 5/157 (Matthew Hughston 64, Matthew Bradley 43no) d. Sydney University 157 (Andre Adams 4-26, Adam Fleming 3-32) on D/L method.

28 February 2016
Sutherland won the Poidevin-Gray Shield by defeating St.George at Glenn McGrath Oval. The team was captained by Jamie Brown, who was also Player of the Match.
Sutherland 7/180 (Jamie Brown 72, Luke Hawksworth 34, Kyle Brockley 23no) d. St.George 179 (Daniel Fallins 4-28, Devlin Malone 3-21, Riley Ayre 2-44).

29 February 1992
This was the first time that we played on 29 February. We had two wins. 1sts played a one-day match after day one was washed out – Sutherland 9/173 dec (John Dyson 37, Darrell Mann 34, Justin Kenny 30) d. Mosman 129 (Phil Weatherall 4-47, Glenn McGrath 3-49, Darrell Mann 2-9) at Rawson Park.
5ths completed a convincing outright win after starting their match the previous week – Sutherland 1/49 dec (Mathew Duff 32no) & 1/79 (Mathew Duff 36no, Trent Harvey 29no) d. Mosman 47 (Matthew Brennan 3-10, Col Christie 2-2, Alex Mann 2-6, Stuart Clark 2-15) & 77 (Jason Holley 4-26, Matthew Brennan 3-23, Stuart Clark 2-18) at Tonkin Oval.

29 February 2020
This was the second time that we played on 29 February, interestingly also against Mosman. It was day one of a two-day round. Shaun Thornton scored the only century, 104 in 3rd Grade, while Tyson Gilbert (5-41 in 4th Grade) and Joel Almond (5-28 in 5th Grade) were the best of the bowlers.

1 March 1969
Des Lawrence took 5-58 in the second innings in 4th Grade vs Waverley at Tonkin Oval. He took 7-39 in the first innings the previous week to give him match figures of 12-97.

1 March 2007
Phil Jaques scored 141 in the first innings of the Sheffield Shield match vs Queensland at the SCG.

2 March 1981
John Dyson scored 134 in the second innings of the Sheffield Shield match vs Western Australia at the WACA.

3 March 2001
Tony Clark took 4-23 in the first innings vs Bankstown at Bankstown Oval. He went on to take 7-44 in the second innings the following week to give him match figures of 11-67.

1st Grade Debuts:
28 February – 2009: Nathan Whittingham
1 March – 2008: Scott Pickering
3 March – 1984: Kevin Tuite
4 March – 1978: Fred Timbrell