Corey Walter and Harrisyn Wingrave created Bellarine Peninsula Cricket Association history on the weekend with a 363-run partnership for Collendina in A2 Grade.
The Cobras’ score of 7/559 was the highest ever team total in A Grade, easily surpassing Barrabool’s 6/423 in 2015-16. The partnership was the highest ever for the fifth wicket
Walter made 210 from 282 deliveries while 17-year-old Wingrave smacked 208 from 146, which included 22 fours and 11 sixes.
Walter is one of the BPCA’s best ever players, but Wingrave was coming off his maiden senior century only weeks before and now has a double ton to his name.
“It’s a great reward for Haz because he’s been working really hard at training and went back to the twos to try and get some runs and he did that by making a hundred a couple of weeks beforehand,” Walter said of his young teammate.
“And to come out and just hit the ball as cleanly as he did was unbelievable to be honest. He’s got a really good eye. And I think he’s starting to realise that once you give yourself a bit of time and get a feel for the conditions and the bowling, he can do some damage.
“I think after 50 balls, he might have only been 20 runs or so on Saturday. To get to 100, I think he probably scored his next 80 off about 40.”
Walter said the partnership unfolded very quickly.
“It’s all a bit of a blur really,” he said.
“While we’re out there, it seemed to just go really quick and I don’t think he (Wingrave) realised what was happening at the time, and to be fair, I probably don’t think it as well. Going from 100 to 200 seemed like it happened in 10 or 15 minutes.
“It probably still hasn’t quite really sunk in I suppose, but it definitely won’t happen for me again that’s for sure.”
Walter said the reason for batting so long after claiming first-innings points against St Leonards on day one, was to keep an eye on the Winchelsea-Inverleigh game and possibly climb into second spot on the ladder. Had Inverleigh lost, net run rate would have decided second and Collendina’s ended up superior, but the Kookaburras scraped home.
Collendina now travels to Inverleigh for a semi-final while Wallington will host Portarlington.
