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Glamorgan Teenager Equals Fastest Double Century Record

Glamorgan Teenager Equals Fastest Double Century Record

Incredible.

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Getting a double century is no mean feat at the best of times but to do it at 19 makes it all the more special and to equal a record for the quickest double hundred in first-class cricket in only your 15th match in the form is incredible.

Glamorgan batsman Aneurin Donald came in with his county at 96-3 in their County Championship Division Two game with Derbyshire yesterday. By the time he'd left the crease just 136 balls later the Welsh county were 437-7 with Donald making 234 runs for his first century.

His 123 ball double ton equalled former Glamorgan player Ravi Shastri's record quickest double century made in 1985 and Donald reached his first century, 150 and 200 run marks all with sixes in an innings that included 26 fours and 15 maximums.

Donald was dropped twice early on his way to the record equalling score and at the end of the day's play, which saw Glamorgan finish on 518, and he was unsurprisingly happy with his score saying, "I was pleased because it has put the team in a strong position, and after a lean patch recently, delighted to get a big one. I had no idea of the records that went, but it was especially pleasing to equal Ravi Shastri's previous record, as he is a former Glamorgan player."

With one of his 15 sixes the 19 year old hit and dented a car parked outside the ground as he went from 100 to 200 in just 43 balls as he disposed of Derbyshire's bowling especially that of leg spinner Matt Critchley who went at over eight an over.

What an incredible innings.

(h/t CricInfo)

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