Prithvi Shaw has smashed an astonishing 244, the sixth-highest one-day innings in historical past, for his county aspect Northamptonshire.
The sensible Indian star’s innings got here from simply 153 balls, together with 28 fours and 11 sixes, as he helped his aspect climb to a mammoth whole of 8-415 of their 87-run victory over Somerset within the One-Day Cup tie at Northampton on Wednesday.
It was the second-biggest List A one-day innings ever recorded in England, after Alistair Brown’s 268 for Surrey towards Glamorgan at The Oval in 2002.
Somerset confronted an uphill job in reply and, regardless of half-centuries from Andrew Umeed (77) and captain Sean Dickson (52) they failed to put a glove on Northamptonshire’s whole as they had been bowled out for 328 within the group B match.
The 23-year-old Shaw, a prodigy who as soon as scored 546 in a single innings as a 14-year-old and who made his debut Test century at 18, has never fairly lived as much as the expectations.
But he is nonetheless loved extraordinary days like this one, as he reached 162 and went previous Northants’ limited-overs file rating of 172 not out by Wayne Larkins, made in a 40-over match in 1983.
It was Shaw’s second double century in 50-over cricket, having made 227 not out for Mumbai in February 2021.
HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL SCORES IN LIST A GAMES:
277 Narayan Jagadeesan (Tamil Nadu v Arunachal, 2022)
268 Alistair Brown (Surrey v Glamorgan, 2002)
264 Rohit Sharma (India v Sri Lanka, 2014)
257 D’Arcy Short (Western Australia v Queensland, 2018)
248 Shikhar Dhawan (India A v South Africa A, 2013)
244 Prithvi Shaw (Northamptonshire v Somerset, 2023)
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
