Cricketers at Terrington Hall School are going batty.

Two of them shared a record 247-run partnership against Durham opponents to qualify for the latest incentive bonus from their headmaster Jon Glen.

"I promised a new bat to anyone scoring a hundred or more and two have gone in the same match. With eight games left the odds are I'm going to have to fork out for more," he said.

In a 35-over blitz against the cathedral school choristers at Durham City cricket ground, 13-year-old opener George Mosey, from Gilling, near Helmsley, blasted a whirlwind 170 not out, the highest Terrington score on record. Terrington totalled a stunning 370 for 2 .

George, who has been coached at the Yorkshire School of Excellence at Ampleforth and has set his sights on a career as a professional cricketer, was at the wicket for just short of two hours.

He helped score 247 in a second wicket stand with his captain, Josh Branson, aged 12, who hit 121 to qualify for the second bat of the day.

Josh has represented his home county Lincolnshire in his age group.

"I've been coaching cricket for 20 years and I have never seen anything like it," said the headmaster.

"The bowling was quite respectable but in the end they just did not know what to do to stop our lads.

"I said to George that he must savour the moment. The chances of him scoring 170 again, even if he goes on to first-class cricket, will be few and far between."

Durham were bowled out after lunch for 100. The home team had given up part of their half-term to play the match.

"By the time George and Josh had finished with them I think they were rather wishing they hadn't bothered," commented Glen.

The highest individual score by a schoolboy is listed as 628 not out, in 1899 by A E Collins of Clifton College, Bristol.

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