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JAKE Klemm's superb season with bat and ball could see see him join a group of some of the Bendigo District Cricket Association's great all-rounders - those to have both made the most runs and taken the most wickets for their team in a season.
With two rounds left in the BDCA season, Klemm - in his first year at Bendigo United - leads both the Redbacks' runs (511) and wickets (22).
Klemm is a lock to win the Redbacks' batting given he's more than 300 runs clear of his nearest team-mate, while it's only Miggy Podsoky (20 wickets) who is a rival on the bowling side.
Should Klemm maintain his lead at the top of both categories, he will become just the 14th player in the BDCA since 2000 to do so.
The list of those who have done so previously since 2000 features a whose who of BDCA all-rounders.
The list includes Bendigo's Mark Ryan, Eaglehawk's Andrew Smith, Huntly-North Epsom's Tim Robertson, Kangaroo Flat's Adam Burns, Sandhurst's Mark Keck, Craig Howard of both Strathdale-Maristians and Sandhurst, the Suns' Cameron Taylor and Strathfieldsaye's Ben Devanny, who have all won BDCA Cricketer of the Year Awards.
Highlighting the brilliant career Burns has had with both bat and ball at Kangaroo Flat, four times has he been both the Roos' leading run-scorer and wicket-taker - 2005-06, 2009-10, 2012-13 and 2014-15.
Howard (twice at Sandhurst, once at Strathdale-Maristians) and Devanny are the only players to have achieved the all-round feat multiple times since 2000.
• All-rounders to lead club runs and wickets in same season since 2000:
BENDIGO
2013-14:
MARK RYAN
Runs - 393 Wickets - 15
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2014-15:
NATHAN FITZPATRICK
Runs - 404 Wickets - 23
EAGLEHAWK
2012-13:
ANDREW SMITH
Runs - 530 Wickets - 40
HUNTLY-NORTH EPSOM
2001-02:
TIM ROBERTSON
Runs - 252 Wickets - 18
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2014-15:
ADAM WARD
Runs - 520 Wickets - 30
KANGAROO FLAT
2005-06:
ADAM BURNS
Runs - 443 Wickets - 32
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2009-10:
ADAM BURNS
Runs - 627 Wickets - 19
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2012-13:
ADAM BURNS
Runs - 545 Wickets - 33
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2014-15:
ADAM BURNS
Runs - 443 Wickets - 42
SANDHURST
2005-06:
MARK KECK
Runs - 311 Wickets - 26
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2015-16:
CRAIG HOWARD
Runs - 480 Wickets - 41
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2016-17:
CRAIG HOWARD
Runs - 428 Wickets - 29
STRATHDALE-MARISTIANS
2001-02:
JOHN NEYLON
Runs - 328 Wickets - 39
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2007-08:
CRAIG HOWARD
Runs - 368 Wickets - 23
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2011-12:
CAMERON TAYLOR
Runs - 721 Wickets - 24
STRATHFIELDSAYE
2001-02:
ROBBIE HERBERT
Runs - 301 Wickets - 23
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2013-14:
BEN DEVANNY
Runs - 472 Wickets - 29
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2014-15:
BEN DEVANNY
Runs - 650 Wickets - 40
WHITE HILLS
2016-17:
MITCH WINTER-IRVING
Runs - 418 Wickets - 21
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