The county cricket test series is currently underway in England. Many of the world’s leading Test players participate in this. Pujara and Umesh Yadav of the Indian team are playing in this series. Washington Sundar from Tamil Nadu has entered the field as a debutant this time.
In this case, Leicestershire and Glamorgan teams clashed. In this, the Leicestershire team, who fielded first, lost all their wickets and accumulated 584 runs. Mulder’s top score was 156 off 201 balls.
Following this, Ingram scored 139 (236) for Glamorgan. Then Sam Northeast’s brilliant performance left everyone in awe. He scored 410 runs off 450 balls with 45 fours and 3 sixes and remained unbeaten till the end. Kook, who partnered with him, was superb and remained unbeaten on 191 off 227 balls. The Glamorgan captain declared when the team was 795/5. This 410 runs scored by Northeast is seen as a historic record. So far only 8 players have crossed 400 runs in first class matches.
Laura’s 501 runs for Warwickshire in 1994 is still the world record in county cricket. Arch McClarin (424) in 1895 and Graeme Cake (405) in 1988 are the only four players to have scored 400 runs in county cricket.