Young opener hits his second List A double ton and the sixth highest score in the format
Indian star Shaw smashes 244 in one-day county game
Prithvi Shaw has smashed an astonishing 244, the sixth-highest one-day innings in history, for his county side Northamptonshire.
The brilliant Indian's innings came from just 153 balls, including 28 fours and 11 sixes, as he helped his side climb to a mammoth total of 8-415 in their 87-run victory over Somerset in 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 against Glamorgan at The Oval in 2002.
Highest individual scores in List A matches
- 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)
Somerset faced an uphill task in reply and, despite half-centuries from Andrew Umeed (77) and captain Sean Dickson (52) they failed to lay a glove on Northamptonshire's total as they were bowled out for 328 in the group B match.
The 23-year-old Shaw, a prodigy who once scored 546 in a single innings as a 14-year-old and who made a Test century on debut at 18, hasn't ever quite lived up to the expectations.
But he's still enjoyed extraordinary days like this one, as he went past Northants' limited-overs record score 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, not long after he was dropped from the Test side in Australia. In all he has played 12 matches for India across the three formats, though he hasn't appeared in the national side since July 2021.