Kyabram Cricket Club’s batting genius Kyle Mueller became the third highest runs scorer in a season in Cricket Shepparton’s modern era with his innings of 130 against top of the ladder side Central Park St Brendan’s on the first day of the final home-and-away round last Saturday.
Unless he gets another trip to the batting crease this Saturday which is unlikely, he will slot in behind Numurkah’s sporting great and current Murray Bushrangers under-18 football coach Mark Brown and Sam Ahmet as the highest run makers in the competition for at least the last 50 years.
Brown set the benchmark of 849 runs in the 2012-13 season.
Mueller’s 130 on Saturday - his fourth century this season - took his run tally for the season to 762 runs, behind Brown and Central Park’s Ahmet, who tallied 831 runs in the 2006-07 season.
Mueller on Saturday edged past Mooroopna’s Brad Lowe with 751 runs and Central Park-St Brendan’s champion Rohan Larkin (749) in the top five run scorers in the competition in the last half century.
Mueller made 600 runs prior to the festive break and didn’t bat when the season resumed on January 8 due to commitments with the victorious Victorian side at the Australian Country Cricket Championships.
But with a general bye in the competition over the Australia Day weekend and Kyabram then having a bye in the following round Mueller had only two chances to overhaul Brown’s record after the festive break.
His 762 runs have come from 11 innings’ and with four unbeaten knocks he has finished the home and away season with a better average than Bradman (108.85)
