Indian Cricket Start, Prithvi Shaw Hits 244 For Northamptonshire In One-Day Cup

Indian Northamptonshire opener, Prithvi Shaw smashed 244 off 153 balls as they piled up 415-8 against Somerset in the One-Day Cup at Wantage Road.

This is the second highest individual total in a County List A game with Northamptonshire trailing by 10 points to equal their best total of 50 out.

Ali-Brown still holds the British single-day cricket record with 268 against Glamorgan in 2002. Shaw hit 11 sixes and 28 fours and went 194 with Sam Whiteman (54).league

Indian cricketer Shaw, who scored 546 runs on an innings at the age of 14 and made his Test century debut at 18, contracted with Northants to supply him with – as coach John Sadler put it – a “young” star.

After going for 34 and 26 in his first two innings for the club, the 23-year-old picked up a 50-of-44 against Somerset with a quadruple cut against Danny Lamb.

The right-hander, who shared the spot for batting 108 with Ricardo Vasconcelos (47), has progressed to his 81st century.

Aged 162, he surpassed former captain David Seales’ record of 50 runs for Northamptonshire in 2006 and surpassed the county record of 172 runs set by Wayne Larkins, achieved in a 40-run game in 1983.

Whiteman bowled Lamb with 369, and Shaw eventually left three balls from the end of the inning, catching the ball in deep center from the same bowler, when five more balls fell in eight tries. to run.

It was Shaw’s second double century in 50-plus cricket after taking 227 steps for Mumbai in February 2021.

Derbyshire host reigning champions Kent face Sussex and Lancashire at Blackpool for other matches on Wednesday.