Top Twenty/20 Match at Dalton Park
Bankstown 1st Grade side is to play Cricket Illawarra's Senior Representative side in a Twenty/20 match on Wed 5th November, North Dalton Park, 6pm start
The Illawarra team is: Graeme Batty, Paul Mason, Rob Fisher, Andrew Northridge, Pat Lyndsay, Glenn Prouten, Dean Merola, Stephen Jones, Matt Treuberg, Scott Cox, Reagan Marmont
Bankstown team is: Danny Waugh (c), Simon Keen, Daniel Burns, Patrick Darwen, Clinton Price, Chris Ridley, Chris Gane, Dean Magee, Anthony Sams (wkt), Dean Burke, Luke Reece
Three centuries in under 14 junior cricket
In the last round of the combined Illawarra and South Coast Junior Cricket under 14A competition three centuries were scored. In a high scoring game Warilla’s M Bates scored 103 not out to lead Warilla to victory despite P Counsell scoring 101 for Helensburgh.
In Balgownie 14A’s outright win over Thirroul C Brown scored 102 while B Chapman had a great all round performance taking 5 wickets for 5 runs and scoring 54. Also in the 14As T McdDevitt scored 71 in Corrimal’s defeat of Kiama, while B Redman compiled 81 in Dapto’s defeat of Wests.
In other outstanding performances in the combined competitions, E Denhartog took 5/32 and J Daskey scored 70 in Balgownie 16A’s win over Thirroul. In the 16B’s J Budge took 5 wickets for 3 runs while H Brown scored 50 in Corrimal’s win over The Rail/Razorbacks Bulls
For all the results of all grades in Illawarra Junior Cricket go to: http://www.cricketnsw.com.au/ijca/
Hurley continues winning form in Singapore
Following on from his world record swim in the 50m backstroke in Sydney on 26 October, Illawarra’s Robert Hurley raced away to win the 100m backstroke Final in Singapore’s World Cup event on Saturday night (November 1).
He won the event against a very strong international lineup in the sizzling time of 50.28 secs (a Personal Best by over half a second) with this time being a World Cup record. It was the 3rd fastest backstroke swim of all time .... just 0.29 away from the world record held by USA's super swimmer Ryan Lochte (a backstroke gold medallist in Beijing).
Additionally Hurley's time smashed the Australian record of of 50.71 secs held jointly by Matt Welsh (recently retired) and Beijing Olympic finalist Ashley Delaney.
Less than 30 minutes later, Robert backed up to chase Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli home in the 400m freestyle ..... as per last weekend in Sydney.
In a powerful international line-up on the second night of the Singapore event (Sunday November 2) Hurley finished with the silver medal in the 50m backstroke final with his time of 23.53 secs being just under three-tenths outside his world record established last weekend. USA champion Randall Bal (the 3rd fastest all-time) won in 23.35 secs with fellow USA swimmer Peter Marshall, winner of this event at this year's world short-course championships in Manchester, a close 3rd. The experienced USA duo of Bal and Marshall have been two of the world's most dominant backstroke short course swimmers in recent years and both are ranked in the top 5 all-time.
Later, in the 200m backstroke final, Hurley finished 3rd behind fellow Australian Ashley Delaney and Randall Bal (USA). Hurley’s time was some 4 seconds slower than his win over Delaney in Sydney last week with his tough schedule probably taking its toll.
Summary of Hurley’s weekend results:
Gold in the 100m backstroke - a World Cup record, smashing the Australian record and narrowly missing the world record (less than three-tenths). Third fastest time in history.
Silver in the 400m freestyle - once again chasing home Olympic 1500m gold medallist Oussama Mellouli.
Silver in the 50m backstroke - splitting USA's "big guns" Randall Bal and Peter Marshall.
Bronze in the 200m backstroke - in relatively slow time.
Next stop: Moscow next weekend.
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