The normally aggressive left-hander struck 123 from 205 balls as the Eagles scored 8-253.

He rates it as one of his best tons in four seasons at the club.

“Probably, just because I found it hard to bat, like it wasn’t free-flowing, it was a bit more gritty then most runs I make,” he said.

It was also Cameron’s first match in six weeks after undergoing a knee arthroscope prior to Christmas.

“I just lacked a little bit of touch, I didn’t think I batted well, which makes it a little more satisfying,” he said.

Cameron had struck four half-centuries this season, and his focus was to turn those into tons.

“Yeah, definitely, it’s obviously frustrating when you get to 60 or 70 and get out,” he said.

“And if I had done that yesterday we probably would have only got 180, so yesterday was a massive focus that someone in the top five had to bat through the bulk of the innings.

“When Nat got out and Josh got out, it had to be me.”

The Eagles went into the round 12 match without a win against any team outside the bottom three, and they looked in danger after falling to 5-107.

But Cameron and Matt Jaensch combined in a 123-run stand for the sixth wicket.

Jaensch took 31 balls to get off the mark as Steve Wood and Matt Armstrong combined superbly.

But he eventually finished unbeaten on 44 from 81 balls, while Cameron struck 11 boundaries a six.

“He batted well Drew, bit scratchy early, but he hit the ball pretty well once he got past 50,” Wood said.

It was Cameron’s first two-day game since last season’s grand final win over Wodonga.

“I think two-day cricket really suits my game,” he said.

“In one-day cricket you get to 50, but you’ve got to keep going, there’s no time where you can take five overs to get your breath back type-thing.”

Wood finished with three wickets in his first game since October.

“He’s a different Woody to usual, he usually tries to go in quick spells and really at you, at your body to try and bowl at you to get you out,” Cameron said.

“But yesterday he just hit the deck and bowled consistently outside the off-stump, he just didn’t give you much to hit.”

The forty-seven-year old will now try and finish the season.

“I played the first four rounds and then injured my calf, that stuffed me for 10 weeks,” Wood said.

“It’s the first time I’ve actually torn it, I’ve tightened in the calf plenty of times, but I’ve never torn it.

“If it got tight I’d stop, this time it actually went before it got tight.”

Belvoir will take confidence into day two after it defended 249 against Tallangatta last season.