Somebody call Guinness World Records - we think Taieri batsman Callum Egen deserves a spot in the book.
The 22-year-old right-hander whacked 381 not out in a third grade game against an under-manned Kaikorai team at Brockville on Saturday.
Kaikorai was short a player or two, but even so, read that number again. Three hundred and eighty-one. Not out. Mercy. Taieri went on to post a scarcely conceivable 510 for three.
Egen pummelled 43 sixes and 20 fours - 338 runs in boundaries alone - and combined with older brother Gareth (34) in an opening stand of 250. Gareth scored just 38 of those runs.
The younger Egen was still trying to process his innings yesterday.
''I don't know if you can really explain it, to be fair,'' he said.
''I was just hitting a pretty good ball and thought I'd run the risk of seeing how well I could go and it sort of came off.''
According to the respected website Cricinfo there have been eight scores of 300 or more in minor limited-overs cricket matches.
Indian schoolboy Nikhilesh Surendran tops that list for his innings of 334 not out for St John's Church Junior College against Brilliant Grammar School in Hyderabad in 2008-09.
Regardless of whether Egen's innings is a world record, he will always have a great story to tell.
His previous highest score was 138 and ''now I've almost tripled it''.
He started opening the batting about two years ago and before that he was ''the old number nine, 10 or 11''.
Egen relies heavily on his bottom hand and a good portion of his 43 sixes were over ''cow corner''.
The thought of retiring and giving Kaikorai, which could manage just 72 in reply, a break never crossed his mind.
''There was no chance of retiring,'' he said, laughing.
The Taieri senior team posted only 145 runs at the weekend so Egen, who has played senior cricket in the past, might get a promotion next week.
We spared Kaikorai the horror of reporting the bowling figures.
The team avoided further indignity by restricting Taieri to 510 - a long way off the world record of 721.
And the bloke who dropped him in the covers early on shall remain nameless.
We feel your pain.
