Adelaide Cricket Club's Cameron Bullard scores 56 on senior D grade debut as a 13-year-old
ADELAIDE Cricket Club teenager Cameron Bullard is hoping a history-making weekend with the bat will propel him towards an A grade career.
ADELAIDE Cricket Club teenager Cameron Bullard is hoping a history-making weekend with the bat will propel him towards an A grade career.
Bullard, 13, scored 56 on his senior debut for the Buffalos in a D grade match against Sturt in the West Parklands on Saturday, November 9.
The following day the right-handed opener plundered a club junior record 195 not out for Adelaide's Ray Sutton Shield under 13 team at the same venue against Southern District.
That innings, which included 26 fours and six sixes, came off just 139 balls.
Bullard, whose previous top score was 101, says he is still coming to terms with both knocks and his call-up to the seniors.
"When my dad told me I was playing Ds, I couldn't believe it," says Bullard.
"I was nervous about playing with adults but once I started hitting the ball the nerves died off.
"It was a big weekend.
"Hopefully I can play some C grade this season ... and one day As."
Bullard, an Australian under-15 indoor cricket representative, attributes his recent success to spending more time at the crease.
"I'm just trying to bat for as long as I can.
"My dad says if I bat time, runs will come."
Buffalos senior coach Ant Botha says there is no reason Bullard cannot play A grade in one or two years.
"That's got to be his goal and I don't think that's too far-fetched," says Botha, a former South African first-class player.
"At 13 to be playing D grade and making 50s definitely means there's something there.
"But for him the hard work starts now."