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THERE'S a saying in sport that "Father Time is undefeated". or signup to continue reading It's a reference to eventually that for even the greatest of players the onset of time and age eventually stops them from performing the deeds they were once able to. While that may be true, from a Bendigo District Cricket Association perspective, Kangaroo Flat's Adam Burns is doing mighty fine job of keeping Father Time at bay, having already taken a six-for and made a 90 in the opening three rounds of this season.

Now aged 43 and on the eve of his 300 first XI game, the evergreen Burns is still performing at a remarkably high level as he has all throughout what will go down in the BDCA history books as one of the greatest careers. It's a first XI career that began in 1998-99 and has ticked just about every box there is to be checked off: Premierships - three of them. BDCA Cricketer of the Year - won it three times as well.



Melbourne Country Week provincial group title - achieved that. League batting and bowling awards - plenty of those. And the numbers speak for themselves.

When he walks on to Dower Park on Saturday against Bendigo for game 300 Burns does so with a resume from a statistical point of view that reads: 609 wickets at an average of 15.9, 6289 runs at an average of 31.7, 29 five-wicket bags and eight centuries.

He's part of one of the most exclusive clubs in BDCA history - that of the rare all-rounder who has taken more than 500 wickets and made more than 5000 runs. Burns j.

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