Bengal go past 129-yr record

FE Team | Published: June 08, 2022 23:41:11

Bengal created an incredible record during the 2022 Ranji Trophy quarterfinal match against Jharkhand on Wednesday.
The Abhimanyu Easwaran-led side put a mammoth score of 773/7 in the first innings of the quarterfinal, and as soon as their number 9 batter Akash Deep reached the fifty-run mark, Bengal registered themselves in history books, according to the Indian daily Hindustan Times.
With Akash Deep's unbeaten 53 off just 18 balls, Bengal became the first first-class team to have nine batters slamming fifty-plus scores in an innings.
While two of them, Sudip Gharami and Anustup Majumdar slammed centuries, the remaining seven scored solid half-centuries to take Bengal to a strong score in the game.
Bengal went past a 129-year record, held by Australians against Cambridge University Past & Present. This is also the first time when all the batters in the top-9 have scored 50+ runs in an innings.
The opening duo of Abhishek Raman (61) and Abhimanyu Easwaran (65) forged a 132-run partnership before Gharami (186) and Majumdar (117) slammed hundreds at no.3 and 4 respectively.
Veteran batter Manoj Tiwary, then, scored 73 off 173 balls before wicketkeeeper-batter Abhishek Porel (68), Shahbaz Ahmed (78), Sayan Mondal (53*), and Akash Deep (53*) all slammed fifties.