Opening the batting in his third match for Northamptonshire, Shaw reached his hundred in 81 deliveries before switching gears to slam a mammoth 244 off 153 balls, also the second highest score in a county List A match as his team posted a humongous 415-8.
Shaw hit 11 sixes and 28 fours and put on a big partnership of 194 with Sam Whiteman (54) for Northamptonshire. The right-handed batter reached his second ton in very quick time, off just 129 deliveries.
The double century has also seen Shaw join a select club of batters scoring multiple List A double hundreds, with India skipper Rohit Sharma, Australia’s left-handed batter Travis Head and Ali Brown its previous members.
Shaw’s previous double century in List A cricket came in February 2021 when he struck an unbeaten 227 for Mumbai against Puducherry, which was also the-then highest score in the tournament.
His knock of 244 now ranks as the sixth-highest individual score in List A cricket, and the second-highest List A score in England after Brown’s 268 for Surrey against Glamorgan in 2002.
After becoming third batter to score a List A double century in England, Shaw now has the record for the highest ever List A score by an overseas player in List A cricket and has also become the first batter to smash List A double hundreds in two countries and for two teams.
Shaw has broken his India team-mate Cheteshwar Pujara’s record for the highest score by an Indian in the One-Day Cup. He also surpassed Sourav Ganguly’s 183 for India, coming against Sri Lanka in the 1999 Men’s ODI World Cup, for the highest List A score made by an Indian batter in England.
–IANS
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