IT could conceivably be the most experienced opening association ever.

At the point when Cranbourne Cricket Club legend Murray Pratt walked out to bat in his 450th amusement on Saturday, his best mate and kindred Eagles doyen Peter Kelly was at the flip side.

The abundance of experience between the two men represented 854 diversions — more than twofold whatever remains of the players in the group joined (Kelly 404).

Also, the combine resisted the Dingley F Grade knocking down some pins assault for 12 overs, achieving 25 preceding Pratt was gotten and played after "one held up on me".

"It was extraordinary to have the capacity to go out to bat with him (Kelly)," Pratt said.

"We presumably haven't played or batted together for 10-15 years.


"We were solid until I got out," he giggled.

Before going out to bat, the match was having an opposition over whose bat was more established, with the agreement that club diversions record holder Pratt's white painted SS Jumbo and Kelly's battered Gray Nicholls most likely had around 60 years between them — not almost as old as the combine's joined age, which just shrouds 120.

Cranbourne got 131, preceding Dingley achieved 0-16 at stumps, however it's no longer about the outcome and the runs any longer for Pratt, who joined the club as a 15-year-old path in 1971, in the wake of moving to Cranbourne from Jeetho, close Korumburra.

"I went up to senior preparing, which I believed was the youngsters, and let them know I was a wicketkeeper," Pratt reviews.

"They stated, 'incredible, you can play A review', which was first grade in those days."

He can let you know precisely what occurred in that amusement — 46 years back.

"We played Berwick at Akoonah Park, they made around 200 and we made 11 and 21," he said.

"I made 0 not out in the primary innings batting at the base of the request and the chief said I did as such well that he needed me to open in the second innings.

"What's more, think about what, I made a duck, yet I had around 15 wounds from this bloke nobody needed to confront."

He can educate you what occurred in simply regarding each amusement he played, with his two premierships a highlight, and reels of club greats like they played yesterday.

He says Kelly is the most reliable batsman the club had seen, while men like current stars Steve Spoljaric and Matt Chasemore, alongside Turf 1 prevalence skipper Peter Campbell, weapon batsmen Mark McNamee and Matty Herrick.

"There's most likely been exceptional batsmen playing for Cranbourne here and now be that as it may, more than 30-40 years, you'll never locate a more predictable batsman at any club," he said.

"You just need to look today, he hasn't gotten a bat for 12 months and he goes out there, gets 30 and looks untroubled."

The stories come thick and quick. This is a man who knows cricket back to front and drains the blue and gold of Cranbourne, having satisfied each part from president down at the club.

He discusses previous Pakistani Test man Duncan Sharpe, who might later go ahead to be the club's guardian.

"Duncan scored 100 against the Australian visiting side in 1960," he said.

"I recollect his first amusement at Cranbourne was out at Tooradin and the grass was up to our knees.

"He went out to bat, no gloves, no crate and he didn't hit one ball noticeable all around and made 49.

"It would have been 150 after Christmas.

"Furthermore, on the off chance that he was setting up the wicket with Spolly and Chasemore playing, they'd make a ton consistently."

He confronted a 16-year-old Damien Fleming on a wet wicket against Springvale South amid the mid-1980s.

"He went through us and he was lightning," Pratt said.

"Furthermore, he had a mate up the flip side who was similarly as snappy."

Among the best stumpers the club has seen, Pratt sits behind the immense Polly Waymouth and child David in third on Cranbourne's puzzling rundown, with 69, to run with 233 gets and 5091 runs.

"Waymouth was George Harvey's stumper and George assumed control 1000 wickets for the club.

"He has 131 stumpings, yet it's most likely almost twofold that, on the grounds that the records weren't generally kept."

He recalls the intense days, when the club battle to make a decent living and could barely handle groups and is grateful for the powerhouse it has ended up at Casey Fields.

"I can't envision playing anyplace else. I live here, I'm devoted, it's an awesome club," he said.

His family, spouse Fay and youngsters David, Jo and Megan, are his greatest supporters and he says he couldn't have done it without them.

Asked to what extent he had left, he holds up three battered attendant's fingers and, with his trademark brassy grin, says "three diversions".

Yet, nobody who knows the man would trust it.