Thursday 9 June 2016 08:54, UK
English cricket's record books were rewritten twice at Trent Bridge on Monday as new highest one-day partnership and aggregate run totals scored in a List A match were set.
By the close in the Royal London One-Day Cup game between Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire, statisticians were checking to see if there had ever been a day like it anywhere in the world.
The big hitting began from the off as Riki Wessels and Michael Lumb shared an English record partnership of 342 in 39.2 overs for Nottinghamshire.
Wessels eventually departed for a career-best 146, from 97 balls, while Lumb went on to make 184, also his best, as Nottinghamshire posted 445 for 8, the second highest score for a List A match.
The runs continued to flow when Northamptonshire chased down what would have been another record for a team batting second but they fell short despite 128 from Rory Kleinveldt.
Their total of 425 gave Nottinghamshire victory by 20 runs in a game which saw an unprecedented 870 scored in the day.
That mark set a new record for the highest aggregate number of runs scored in a one-day game in England.
The Nottinghamshire stand beat the previous record in England of 318 by Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid for India against Sri Lanka at Taunton in the 1999 World Cup.
Lumb and Wessels' English record is the third-highest partnership in List A games, behind the 372 which Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels took off Zimbabwe in the 2015 World Cup.
The record for the highest team total is held by Surrey, who made 496-4 against Gloucestershire in 2007.
Jesse Ryder scored his ninth List A hundred as Essex pulled off a successful run chase for the second successive day to make it two wins out of two against Sussex.
Having overhauled a target of 310 to beat Hampshire on Sunday when Ryder made 71, Essex beat South Group rivals Sussex by five wickets with six balls to after being set 272 to win.
Ryder accelerated after scoring his first 50 off a relatively sedate 71 balls, reaching his hundred from a further 38 deliveries with six fours and three sixes.
With nine overs left and 80 needed, the odds favoured Sussex - but Ryder and Ryan Ten Doeschate plundered 83 in 9.3 overs and, when Ryder was yorked by Chris Jordan for 100.
Ten Doeschate, who finished unbeaten on 48, competed the task, hitting Ajmal Shahzad for four and six at the start of the penultimate over before former Sussex player Ashar Zaidi struck successive boundaries to seal an impressive victory.
Reigning champions Gloucestershire suffered their second defeat in successive days when they were soundly beaten by 52 runs by Glamorgan.
Jacques Rudolph and Will Bragg made half-centuries in Glamorgan's total of 289, which proved comfortable enough.
Despite half-centuries from Michael Klinger and top-scorer Benny Howell (77), Gloucestershire were always behind the run-rate and lost wickets at regular intervals on their way to 237 all out.
Glamorgan, having been put in by Klinger, had been in a position during their 50 overs to have scored in excess of 300 as Rudolph and Bragg laid the foundation with a second-wicket stand of 122 in 20.2 overs.
They suffered a mini collapse, however, losing four wickets for 23 before settling on a solid total which required Gloucestershire to score at almost six runs an over.
At first they made inroads but with 10 overs remaining they required 105 to win, with Tom Smith and Howell having shared a useful stand of 66.
From there, Craig Meschede uprooted Smith's off-stump with his third ball and Howell battled until the end before he was the last man out - caught on the extra-cover boundary - having hit seven fours and a six in 67 deliveries.
