TORONTO Workers batsman have enjoyed a day out, nudging a couple of long-standing records, and possibly setting a new one.
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In their Newcastle district cricket matches against Wallsend on Saturday, Toronto batsman scored centuries in first, second and third grade.
Veteran Toronto scorer Grahame Jenkinson suspects it could be the first time the feat has been achieved by the club.
In the top grade, Corey Brown made 154 not out in Toronto’s total of 9-332 declared.
In second grade, Luke Garaty made 121 in Toronto’s 5-228.
And in third grade, Scott Marjoribanks was run out for 149 in his team’s total of 230.
“That one could be a record,” Jenkinson said.
The club stalwart has been scoring for the club since 1981 and said he could not recall three centuries being scored by Toronto batsmen in each of the top three grades in the one round.
The run-scoring in first grade threatened a couple of other club records, he said.
Brown, 21, became “one of the youngest” players to score his maiden first grade century for Toronto. That record remains with Jason Holt.
“Jason was a local junior who was 17 or 18 when he scored his maiden century in the 1980s,” Jenkinson said.
Brown’s total of 154 was also the third highest score by a Toronto batsman in first grade, Jenkinson said.
Brown and Corey Piccirillo, who made 38 on Saturday, combined for a ninth-wicket partnership of 81.
“That was one run short of the first grade club record for the ninth-wicket partnership of 82 made by Miles Richardson and Chad Penfold,” he said.
That was one run short of the first grade club record for the ninth-wicket partnership
- - Toronto scorer Grahame Jenkinson
“That record partnership was also scored against Wallsend at Ron Hill Oval.”
Jenkinson said the record was set in the summer of 2010-11 and was the only club record partnership of less than 100 runs for any wicket in first grade.
Jenkinson and his Wallsend counterpart, Jack Brown, have a trophy named after them, honouring their contributions to both clubs as scorers.
“Jack started scoring not long after I started in 1981,” Jenkinson said.
The two clubs compete for the Jenkinson-Brown trophy annually.
Meanwhile, Corey Brown has revealed how setting 10-run targets helped him to remain focused during his marathon five-hour innings.
“I just thought there was a job to be done, and that the wicket was getting better the longer it had sun on it,” he said.
Brown said he had been working on using a new trigger movement at the point of the bowler’s delivery.
His favoured scoring zone behind point proved fruitful, but his accomplished stroke play down the ground was a new highlight.
“I was pretty happy with my front-foot play, and how I was driving straight,” he said.
Brown brought up his century with a cut shot that pierced the field and ran away to the boundary.