2007 – Bunyip’s Ton in vain It was a bright and sunny January day as the ANU XI traveled to Bowral for the annual match with the Bradman Foundation XI. The team was made up of players both past and present and upon their arrival at the famed ground were quickly sent in to bat […]

Cricket in Canberra had very early origins with one Club, the Hall Cricket Club, being inaugurated as far back as 1854. A more formal structure to matches played in the region occurred in 1914 with the creation of a program of matches for the Moore Shield which had hitherto for many years been contested on […]

University began their participation in Second Grade with a win against Grammar just failing by 23 runs to win outright as time expired. In the following match, University nominated a second side replacing the bye of the first round. The second side, however, suffered a crushing outright defeat at the hands of Barton. By the […]

1950-51 University’s representation again shrank to only the one team in Sub-District. Not surprisingly the team dominated from the outset due in no small measure to the bowling talents of Hume who in the space of four innings reaped rewards of 3/20, 3/20, 6/26, and 5/16 in matches all resulting in victories. The real test […]

1962-63 In the early part of the off-season, Arthur Brown, Neil Tuckwell and John Newman hatched the idea of forming a university cricket club given the number of talented cricketers who attended the University but played for District Clubs such as Northbourne and Turner. Though these initiators were aware that an ANU Cricket Club had […]

1970-71 Mike Howell was installed as First Grade captain, the university reign of Gary Potts having come to an end. Once again a premiership slipped past. The first day’s play of the semi-final was washed out and the second day’s play began 45 minutes late. This time bowling first, ANU dismissed Woden one short of […]

1980-81 The Club enjoyed its most successful season ever in winning the Club Championship, the Second and Fourth Grade Premierships, and the Bel-Air Shield (by Fourth Grade securing the most competition points). Barry Andrews joined the Club as Coach and as captain of the First Grade side saw the side improve from last to equal […]

1990-91 The Club reduced its number of teams from nine to eight. With the demise of the Seventh Grade competition, three teams played in the Sixth Grade competition. Greg Irvine’s First Grade side failed by just two points to earn a Semi-Final berth with an uncharacteristic poor batting performance in the last competitive match against […]

Alan Sargeson Career 1963-1971 Batting 430 runs @ 25.1 with 10 fifties Leading 1st Grade Batsman 1964-65 368 runs @ 46.0 Highlights Played in first 1st Grade match in 1963 scoring 57 Played in first 1st Grade semi-final in 1967 taking 5-50 Gary Potts Career 1966-1970 Batting 1767 runs @ 43.1 with 2 centuries (HS […]