Indian batter scores 244 for Northamptonshire in English county One-Day Cup match
By:
Chandrashekar Bhat
INDIA’S Prithvi Shaw struck the sixth highest particular person one-day rating on Wednesday (9) when he blasted a rare 244 for Northamptonshire of their English county One-Day Cup match at dwelling to Somerset.
The 23-year-old, opening the batting, confronted simply 153 balls, together with 28 fours and 11 sixes as Northamptonshire piled up 415-8 en path to an 87-run win at Wantage Highway.
Shaw’s innings was the sixth highest particular person rating in any restricted overs match, with solely Ali Brown’s 268 for Surrey towards Glamorgan in 2002 the next solo complete in an English county match of this type.
Lengthy tipped for batting stardom after making a mammoth 546 in a single innings as a 14-year-old throughout a faculty match, the right-hander’s first hundred runs Wednesday got here off 81 balls with Shaw going through a mere 48 balls for his second hundred.
Shaw, who made a century on Take a look at debut for India as an 18-year-old, comfortably surpassed Northamptonshire’s earlier highest limited-overs particular person report rating of 172 not out by former England batsman Wayne Larkins, made in a 40-over match again in 1983.
“We weren’t ready for this,” mentioned a put up on Northamptonshire’s Twitter feed.
“Prithvi Shaw has one other Record A double century! There aren’t any phrases for the way good this innings has been.”
Shaw was ultimately dismissed three balls from the tip of the innings, caught at deep mid-wicket off seamer Danny Lamb.
This was the second time Shaw had made a double century in a home one-day match, following his unbeaten 227 for Mumbai towards Puducherry in 2021.
Shaw has up to now represented India in 12 matches throughout all three worldwide codecs – Assessments, one-day internationals and Twenty20 matches – with the final of these appearances coming two years in the past.
Highest particular person scores in one-day video 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 Quick, Western Australia v Queensland, 2018
248 – Shikhar Dhawan, India A v South Africa A, 2013
244 – Prithvi Shaw, Northamptonshire v Somerset, 2023
(AFP)
