IN A season where bowlers have dominated, batsmen put in an extraordinary performance in last Saturday’s round of senior cricket.

On the hottest day of the cricket season, no less than four batsmen made centuries as batting teams smashed wilting bowling attacks.

In two games, a batsman from both sides made 100.

Footballers tallied up the biggest score of the season, making 9/291 from their 40 overs against Borders at IB Edwards Oval.

Brett Gould made the oval look tiny, smashing 12 sixes and 11 fours - 116 runs in boundaries - in an innings of 140.

Building on his example, everyone else had a swing as well, Todd Hindmarsh making 40 and most others getting a start.

Ben Thring took three wickets but no bowlers were spared in the carnage.

In reply, Borders had nothing to lose and also came out swinging, with Nick Thring connecting more times than not to hit six sixes on his way to 101.

Bartley Nolan batted well in support with 38 as Borders finished with 184, Paul Schroder enjoying a rare trip to the bowling crease to take 4/4 and Sam Henschke continuing his good form with 3/22.

It was also a runfest at Wortley Oval, where Kybybolite batted first against Demons and had its best match with the bat for the season.

Lee Curnow and Rowan Werchiwski put on 96 in good time for the first wicket before Werchiwski was dismissed for 38.

Curnow got excellent support from Ryan Agnew 23 and Dave Farley 29 not out as he hit his way to 105 before Michael Pannell finished off with a cameo 13.

Kyby reached a very competitive 3/218, with none of the bowlers taking more than one wicket.

In reply, Demons fell to 2/12 but Nathan Smith came to the rescue with an almost match-winning 110.

He hit the ball hard from the start, getting top support from Michael Cappelluti 16, Matt Smith 23 and Andrew Fitzgerald 24. Playing only his second game for the season, Smith looked set to guide his team home before being caught behind in the 37th over with victory almost in sight.

That was part of a collapse of 5/10 as Kyby held on to win by just three runs in a last-ball thriller.

At Lucindale, the home side batted first against Townies and started fairly with an opening stand of 22, but it was all downhill from there.

Some excellent bowling from Drew Myall early was followed up by good leg spin from Mark Collins as Townies rolled through the strong Lucindale batting line-up for just 75 runs.

Myall’s 3/20, 4/13 from Collins and 2/0 from Daniel Pedler were the stand-outs.

Townies lost Collins early in the run chase, but Brad Redding 39 not out and Jason McClure 21 saw them home comfortably, finishing at 2/80 from 21 overs.