IT’S fair to assume Oakhill College’s innings against Bathurst’s St Stanislaus College last Saturday is one of the worst ever, considering the Sydney school was bowled out for just five.

It has to be.

Surely there hasn’t been a lower score than that since, well, ever.

Thanks largely to Orange’s Jack Cornish, who snared 5-1 from his four overs, Stannies rolled Oakhill for just five, after setting the Sydney school an underwhelming 105 for victory.

Cornish combined with Dominic McCrossin (4-4), just two members of Stannies’ fast-bowling cartel, to take nine of Oakhill’s 10 wickets. 

The final scalp was a run out, courtesy of Hayden Schembri.

“We were standing around talking about it after the game, you won’t see the likes of that again,” Stannies coach Mark Elliott said.

“It was definitely very surreal when it was happening, I was out in the middle umpiring trying to keep a lid on it, but the boys were bouncing around.

“The boys had their heads down after we batted. There was stones-being-kicked sort of thing that we hadn’t done a good enough job.”

Stannies accounted for Oakhill by 23 runs three weeks ago, and went into the return match on home turf brimming with confidence as a result.

But, with plenty in the deck, the Oakhill attack made light work of the home side, dismissing Stannies for just 104. 

Tom Veitch (24), Sam Condon (23 not out) and Jaydon Howarth (12) were the only Stannies batsmen to pass double figures.

Needless to say, that 104 was more than enough.

Under extreme pressure leading into Oakhill’s innings, Cornish dismissed gun opening bat Blake Peisley without scoring, which kick-started the epic collapse.

Six more Oakhill batsmen were sent packing without troubling the scorers, three scored just one, while Daniel Grace top scored with two.

“It was the first time I had opened the bowling for seconds, so I was happy to get the call up. The new ball in the hand felt pretty good,” Cornish beamed.

“We (played against) them a few weeks ago and the bloke that opened got about 60, but I got him out second ball. It was a bit relieving and we went from there.

“I was just waiting for one of them to stand up and stick around, but no-one did. No-one decided to value their wicket too much.

“It was moving a bit and as the day went on the pitch deteriorated a bit, so we put our bowling down to that.

“I think I have had a five-for before, but that was back in under 12s, so these were definitely my best figures.”