MPCA batsman passes 1000 runs, eyes off all-time record

A Mornington Peninsula batsman has blasted past 1000 runs for the season. Here’s a look at the MPCA players having golden summers with the bat.

Dave Dervan has scored over 1100 runs for Skye this season.

He’s peeled off scores of 110, 119no, 128no, 247no and 173 – and there’s still at least four games to go.

David Dervan’s massive season for Skye’s fifths shows no signs of slowing, with the 44-year-old smashing through the 1000-run barrier on Saturday.

His latest knock, a blazing 173, lifted his season run tally to 1147, at 143.38.

With three games remaining, plus potentially two finals, Dervan could give the all-time MPCA season aggregate record, believed to be 1300, a nudge.

Last month, Dervan blitzed 247no to become the first player in Skye’s 74-year history to score a double century.

The MPCA batters having golden summers:

*Langwarrin’s Kylie Walters is averaging an eye-popping 668 in MPCA Women’s competition, having been dismissed only once in 11 innings. She scored back-to-back unbeaten centuries in January, to go with seven half-centuries.

Langwarrin’s Kylie Walters.

Daniel Warwick.

*Old Peninsula master blaster Dylan O’Malley leads with Provincial division runs list with 571, at 51.

*Baxter champion Daniel Warwick scored 129no on Saturday – his 20th century for Baxter, equalling the great Jack Peacock.

*Mt Eliza’s Rashmika Opatha has churned out 533 runs in Peninsula division, including one century and three half-tons.

*In District division, Luke Hewitt (Balnarring) and Jack Greenwood (Frankston YCW) have both scored two centuries in their tallies of 458 and 452 respectively.

*Flinders champion Shane Beggs went to 702 runs when he made 43no in the Sharks’ first XI on Saturday (649 of his runs have come in the seconds).

*French Island’s Ben King has made 586 runs, including an MPCA all-time record 321no, in A1 Grade.

*Langwarrin’s Matthew Ashton is averaging 213, having hit three centuries in four trips to the crease in B1 Grade.