Amid Orange City's continuing domination - although that comes up later too - there were some serious individual performances and a handful of instances that do raise a lot of questions.

Here's the five things we learned from the third round of the 2019-20 summer.

To me Orange City skipper Ed Morrish looks the best all-rounder in Western Zone right now, and I'd have loved to have seen what he could've done if he was given the chance to play that role at that level too.

Captaincy brought out the best in Morrish last summer as he belted 363 runs and snared 23 wickets too. His form was excellent for Orange in sporadic appearances as well, but he appears to have taken another giant stride this season already.

His unbeaten, third-round ton has taken his BOIDC run tally to 164 at an average of 82 and he's picked up a handful of wickets as well, although he's barely had a chance to make an impact with the ball for the Warriors because he's not had to.

Skippering Orange he's been one of the Bluebaggers' best-performed with bat and ball too, did well for the Central West Wranglers in their road to the Cricket NSW Plan B Regional Bash finals and was strong in his Western Zone debut earlier this month.

That's what I was referring to before, because I personally think he batted too low in that side even though he was picked as a quick, and should've played a far bigger role with the bat.

Considering his early-season form St Pat's Old Boys all-rounder Connor Slattery has a claim to this tag as well, particularly after banging out an unbeaten 150 in the third round and taking four wickets to boot.

The only difference is Slattery is clearly seen as an all-rounder at the next level while Morrish seems to have been pigeon-holed as a quick alone, which simply makes no sense.

Centrals still haven't batted first this summer and they also battle to get the same side on the paddock week-to-week, but still, through Fletcher Rose and the tail-end on Saturday they showed they do have the necessary resilience to win games.

They just need to do that more.

I feel like I'm writing about Centrals' batting woes every week in this column so I'm making sure to add here I'm encouraged to see them win, it proves they can make an impact this summer if the rest of the side follows Rose's lead.

His match-winning ton on the weekend was the epitome of grit and his tail-end did a superb job supporting him to that win, and Rose also accounted for the side's next-best individual effort with his 70-odd against Orange City in round one.

It's not like he's in a different stratosphere ability wise to the rest of his side. He just plays his natural game, doesn't throw his wicket away and digs in, unsurprisingly the runs come when he does that.

In saying that he is Centrals' best player and he will be the linchpin should they turn their season around, but the rest of the side are more than capable of doing the same.

It's been some time since Shane Watson was at the forefront of Australian cricket but his penchant for a review after getting trapped in front remains one of the game's best piss-takes.

He would've been champing at the bit to question the BOIDC's umpires over the third round, considering they dished out 28 leg before wicket dismissals across the round.

To preface this, I'm not necessarily having a pot shot at the BOIDC's umpires. They do a good job and I've got no idea if they fired anyone, so it'd be remiss to suggest there was any trigger fingers in action.

It's pretty well-known bowlers around here don't have the patience to steer clear of attacking the stumps for long too, most sides bowl far too straight and always have.

Still, 28 is a lot, and 10 of them were in one game.

A total of 107 wickets fell across the third round's five games, which means more than a quarter of dismissals came by way of leg before.

Orange City are undefeated and flying, the Warriors now stand alone atop the BOIDC standings and incredibly they're yet to be bowled out through three rounds, posting massive scores in each.

But they haven't played on the road yet and history proves the travel, albeit short at a 45-minute drive either way, is a massive factor.

Of the seven sides that have been forced to travel through the opening rounds just one has secured victory on the road and that was Kinross, the students knocked off City Colts at Bathurst's Loco Oval.

The rest haven't fared so well.

Cavaliers, CYMS and Centrals have all been handed defeats in their respective trips to Bathurst while Rugby Union, Bathurst City and St Pat's Old Boys have suffered the same fate after driving to Orange.

Who knows, maybe it won't make a difference, but logic suggests it might when the Warriors travel to Bathurst to face Centennials Bulls over the next two weeks.

With another five-wicket haul on Saturday - his second for the summer - Mitch Black is now leading the BOIDC's wicket-taking stakes with 14 scalps at 16.92, he snared 5-61 against CYMS in the third round.

He could be on track to do something very special too, something that's not been done since legendary CYMS spinner Al Dhatt achieved it in season 2013-14 - a 40-wicket season.

Black's averaging a tick under five wickets a game through the first three rounds and he continues on that path he'll go exceptionally close to matching Dhatt's 2013-14 record of 40 scalps, the latter took them at 9.45 apiece too.

At the very least he's once again proving to be the most dangerous spinner in Orange, he topped the wicket-taking stakes in the colour city last summer with 33 at 9.58.

Whether he'll get enough overs in might prove a key factor, considering he's got Gus Cumming and Hugh Middleton bowling tweakers in the same side.