Matt Thistlethwaite (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday I joined many members of our community to watch the mighty Randwick Petersham Cricket Club defeat Sydney university in the Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cricket Cup. Batting first, the local boys set a big task for the students by scoring seven for 166, with the standouts being Nathan Price, hitting 45 off 25 balls, Daniel Sams 43 off 33 and Anthony Sams 28 off 27.

Sydney university began their run chase well, reaching 80 runs with a loss of just two wickets, before some excellent bowling, particularly by the captain, Adam Semple, who delivered a beautiful yorker on the first ball of the new spell to take out the stumps of Sydney university captain Nick Larkin, who was on 61 at the time and so halted the momentum of the visitors. In the end the visitors could only manage seven for 140 off the 20 overs.

Randwick Petersham were declared the champions for 2015-16. The competition win was the locals' third in just five years and their 17th victory in the past 18 games. All in all, it was a tremendous display of skill and sportsmanship from two great Sydney cricket clubs, with the legendary Randy Petes adding to the already proud history. Congratulations and thanks to all the players and volunteers of this great club, in particular my good mate, Mike Whitney, the president of the club whose passion and commitment to the club are admirable. Up the Randy Petes!

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