The Orange District Cricket Association will continue to hand out their annual award to the best Orange player for the season, which encompasses BOIDC performance as well as form in games for representative sides, despite the new competition for 2019-20.

However, the BOIDC will also have a player-of-the-year award, with umpires handing out votes for players after every game in a 3-2-1 format.

The Cavaliers skipper is three points clear at the top of the table after five games on 10, ahead of Fletcher Rose (7).

Corben is having a phenomenal season, with 458 runs in the BOIDC from just four innings, with two 50s and two 100s - including a 176 - at an average of 114.

Rose has hit the one ton and two half-centuries at an average of 68 in the BOIDC in a breakout season with the bat.

The real surprise has come in third spot with CYMS tweaker Al Dhatt has racked up the maximum three points from his only two games this season to be sitting as the third place on six points.

The evergreen Dhatt has made a remarkable comeback to the BOIDC for CYMS' 75^th year, with two five-wicket hauls from his two starts, taking 10-146 across his astonishing 62 overs in the competition on top of 1-32 in his sole Royal Hotel Cup appearance.

He's gone at a miserly 2.4 runs per over, averaging just 14 with ball in hand - as well as taking three catches to boot.

Eight players share the spoils on five points, including St Pat's Connor Slattery - who with a batting average of 119 in the BOIDC and eight wickets could be expected to sit much higher in the standings.

Three of his five points would have come from his round three match with City Colts where he belted 152 not out and then took 4-62 with ball in hand.

He may have picked up points in the round five clash with Rugby Union where he hit 86, or when he nabbed 3-82 from 22 overs in round two against Orange City but hasn't had strong performances outside those three games.

Corben is leading the ODCA count by over 100 points over Orange skipper Ed Morrish, with his mountain of BOIDC runs keeping him well in front on 965 points.

Remarkably, Corben's run of form comes without an appearance for Western, where points are weighted far more heavily than those coming from BOIDC matches.

Morrish is in second on 837, with under half his points coming in the Saturday competition and the rest coming from performances for Orange, the Central West Wranglers and Western.

Cavaliers' Hugh Middleton is in third on 708, with 295 of his points coming from Orange representative games for both the senior side and colts.

James Larkin and Mitch Black round out the top five, while Fletcher Rose, CYMS skipper Hugh Le Lievre, Orange City duo Lachie Coyte and Brett Causer and Kinross' Will Luelf sit in the top 10.