NORTH West Sydney Hurricanes first grade side are in a commanding position after day one of their round four Sydney Shires Cricket Clash with Burwood Briars after winning the toss and batting first at Rothwell Oval, Concord. All top order batsmen fired for the Hurricanes with openers Cameron Watson 85 and Andrew Watkins 58 putting on a 126 run opening partnership.

Mark Liddell 48 and Damian Duroux 56 then continued the batsman's dominance as the Hurricanes declared after just 60 overs for 7-314 giving them 20 overs at the Burwood batsmen. Tom Ortiz with 2-14 and Joel Scurr with 1-3 then gave the Hurricanes a perfect start to have Burwood 3-47 at stumps still 267 runs behind.

Second grade are in trouble after first dominating with the ball at Bruce Purser Reserve. Losing the toss the Hurricanes bowled Burwood all out for 163. Openers Anthony Hale (pictured) 3-38 and Patrick Little 3-38 were the pick of the bowlers while Jason Windred also took 2-34. With 30 overs to face, some ill disciplined batting saw the Hurricanes finish the day in trouble at 6-76 with skipper Geoff Reid not out on 26.

Third grade saw Alex Ierrionni, fall short of his maiden century for the club by scoring 98 at Ron Routley Oval in a brilliant batting display. Kyle Gobbert with 82 and David Lewis with 61 continued the Hurricanes batting dominance.

Fourth grade is in the balance after the Hurricanes were bowled out for 185 with Hayden Young continuing his great form with 61. In reply Burwood are 3-53 with skipper Chamara Pathrinage taking all three wickets.

Fifth grade had another batting collapse and were defeated by five wickets by Lane Cove at St Lukes on Saturday in their one day match.