All the talk at Sixways this week has been about a hat-trick of hat-tricks as red-hot wing Miles Benjamin prepares to write his name into club folklore.

Having scored three times in each of Worcester’s first two play-off matches, against Bristol and London Welsh, the Solihull-born powerhouse is considering a third triple in Friday’s encounter with Nottingham.

At least his team-mates are. Like most prolific hit-men Benjamin is reluctant to talk himself up or make any bold predictions about delivering another lesson from the Worcester School of Finishing.

But if last season’s play-offs taught us anything it was that the big players stand up at the most important times and after a season of deceptively quiet accumulation, Benjamin has suddenly burst into life.

While wing partner Marcel Garvey has spent most of the campaign looking like a Premiership player burning through Championship defences, Benjamin’s body of work has been rather less spectacular.

At hat-trick at Plymouth and a double against London Welsh aside, the England Saxon has been very much gatherer to Garvey’s hunter. Until the roles reversed at the Memorial Stadium a couple of weeks ago when the 22-year-old’s appetite looked insatiable.

Though he tries to play down his purple patch let’s face it, who wouldn’t enjoy talking about the fact they are currently rolling along at three-a-game rather than – as he was a year ago – what they can do to influence proceedings more.

It is with a degree of scepticism therefore, with which we must treat the following assertion, made by Benjamin earlier this week, when the subject of hat-trick No 3 was raised.

“There is no temptation to hold on to the ball that bit more,” Benjamin claimed. “I don’t think I would ever live it down at this club if I did.

“Even if there was a little temptation, in the 79th minute with just one man to beat and someone outside me I would make the pass – every time.”

He then qualifies this with: “You’ll have to wait and see,” which is a tacit admission that on Friday night there might be a little room for personal Miles-tones – as long as the collective goal has already been reached.

The biggest personal landmark on offer this season is ending the year as the division’s top try scorer. Benjamin ended the regular season tied on 14 with Garvey, London Welsh’s Josh Drauniniu and Doncaster’s Matt Williams.

The play-offs, therefore, provide some kind of tie-break or penalty shoot-out, with all four vying to follow in the footsteps of stars like Chris Ashton and Matt Jess, who have taken the title in each of the last two years.

And with 20 from his 23 matches the former King Edwards, Edgbaston student has stolen a potentially decisive lead: “I would love to finish as top try scorer,” he admitted.

“Every winger takes some pride in scoring tries because essentially that’s what wingers get judged on – whether you like it or not – that’s what people look to at the end of the season.

“I am delighted to get a couple of hat-tricks, I really am, I love scoring tries. I have been getting a lot of stick from the boys so I am probably pretty obviously proud.