BENDIGO United star batsman Heath Behrens needs just 33 more runs to become the highest run-scorer in Bendigo District Cricket Association history.
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The late Leon Grose holds the record for the most BDCA first XI runs with 10,417, made for Bendigo United, Sandhurst and White Hills between 1961-62 and 1996-97.
Behrens - who last round became the first Redback to play 250 first XI games for Bendigo United - heads into Saturday’s game against Kangaroo Flat with career 10,385 runs.
Once Behrens passes Grose, he will not only hold the record for the most runs in BDCA history, but also the most centuries (25) and highest score (249 n.o.).
According to historian Darren Rodda, apart from Grose and Behrens, the only other player to have made more than 10,000 first XI runs in the BDCA - a competition which began in 1903-04 - is league president Wayne Walsh (10,068 for Eaglehawk and Golden Square).
The ladder-leading Redbacks will chase Kangaroo Flat’s 219.
The Roos are languishing in ninth position on the ladder, but are proving no easybeats, having lost to top-four sides Strathdale-Maristians and Eaglehawk by a combined four runs their past two games.
• Strathfieldsaye and Huntly-North Epsom are locked in a tight tussle at Tannery Lane.
The Power will resume at 4-78 in reply to the Jets’ 158.
• Bendigo will chase four wins in a row for the first time since the 2000-01 season against Eaglehawk at Provincial Home Loans Oval.
The Goers - who beat Eaglehawk in Wednesday night’s Twenty20 grand final - need 182 to down the Hawks.
• Golden Square is on track to end its four-game losing streak.
After bowling White Hills out for 131 at Glen Loddon Homes Oval, Square will continue its chase at 1-33.
• Bottom side Sandhurst will need to make its highest score of the season if it’s to chase Strathdale-Maristians’ 266 at Bendigo Door Centre Weeroona Oval.
