India batter Prithvi Shaw slammed a double hundred for Northamptonshire within the One-Day Cup match in opposition to Somerset on the County Floor in Northampton on Wednesday.
Opening the batting in his third recreation for the Northants, Shaw notched up his maiden hundred for the aspect off 81 deliveries earlier than switching gears to crack a sensational double century.
Shaw reached his second ton in double-quick time, off simply 129 deliveries with 24 fours and eight sixes. The Mumbaikar’s earlier double hundred got here within the 2020-21 Vijay Hazare Trophy, the place he struck an unbeaten 227 for Mumbai in opposition to Puducherry – the-then highest rating within the match.
Shaw bettered that knock and ultimately fell within the fiftieth over of the Northants innings after amassing a whirlwind 153-ball 244 with 28 fours and 11 sixes. Northants recorded its second highest rating within the One-Day Cup, ending on 415 for eight.
The 23-year-old broke quite a few Checklist A data together with his ninth ton and his first within the format since a 165 within the Vijay Hazare Trophy for Mumbai in March 2021.
Shaw, who has featured in 56 Checklist A video games, has racked up over 2900 runs with 20 fifty-plus scores and a 50-plus common.
Shaw had been dismissed hitwicket on 34 on his Northants debut final week in opposition to Gloucestershire.
Here’s a have a look at the data damaged by Shaw together with his knock for Northants:
- Prithvi Shaw surpassed Ollie Robinson’s 206 (for Kent in 2022) to document the very best particular person rating ever within the One-Day Cup.
- Shaw recorded his highest Checklist A rating – 244.
- Shaw recorded the third-best boundary haul by a batter in an innings in recorded males’s Checklist A cricket – 39 (28 fours, 11 sixes).
- Shaw’s 244 is the second-highest rating in English Checklist A cricket, behind Ali Brown’s 268 within the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy in 2002.
- Shaw is the primary batter to smash Checklist A double a whole bunch in two international locations.
- Shaw can also be the primary batter to document Checklist A double hundred for 2 groups (Mumbai, Northamptonshire).
- Shaw surpassed Saif Zaib’s 136 to document the very best rating by a Northants batter within the One-Day Cup.
- Shaw turned simply the second Indian after Rohit Sharma and fourth general to document a number of Checklist A double-hundreds. Whereas Rohit has three such scores, Ali Brown and Travis Head have two apiece.
- Shaw broke Cheteshwar Pujara’s document for the very best rating by an Indian within the One-Day Cup.
- Shaw turned simply the third batter to document a double hundred within the One-Day Cup.
- Shaw surpassed Sourav Ganguly’s 183 for India (v Sri Lanka, 1999) for the very best Checklist A rating by an Indian in England.
- Shaw’s present Checklist A common (55.30) is the seventh-best general and the fourth-best amongst Indians, solely behind Ruturaj Gaikwad, Pujara and Virat Kohli.