Just wanted to add a shout out for Athletico Mince in case readers find themselves with a long car journey or many countless, virus-bound hours to while away. It is a most enjoyable journey deep into Bob’s quite wonderful imagination.

Even more so when you consider he only hit two boundaries in that rapid 48.

Well enough cheers.

Nice spot Micko. Suspect something could/should be done to give that competition more of a level playing field, not an expert on Indian domestic cricket but that being an “Elite Group” seems a bit misleading.

I’m almost through some big autumn deadlines and thus look forward to hearing the ridiculous fifth test if 2013 in the next day or three.

is there to be a Ridiculous Three ODIs Of 2022 podcast? There really should be. A glance at the scorecard this morning tells me that Moeen Ali, having stood in as captain for one of those “horrible” matches has today taken up the role of concussion substitute.

Daisy and I sometimes use the services of an excellent odd job man, Mark, whose van-side slogan is “No Job Too Odd”. Moeen’s should be “No England Cricket Role Too Horrible”.

Also worth noting that Jagadeesan’s partner Sudharsan has had a slightly less impressive but similar streak, in those same 5 games he has made 3 centuries and fifties in the other two, meaning that Tamil Nandu’s opening partnerships in their last 5 games have been 177, 233, 276, 151, and then finally the 416. In a shocking turn of events they have managed to win all of those games.

Cricinfo have a fuller piece on it now, with all the records. I hadn’t realised that Jagadeesan had also hit centuries in his previous four List A innings (itself a record tied with Kumar Sangakkara, Alviro Petersen, and Devdutt Padikkal) so has become the first batter to reach five centuries in a row – bad luck Devdutt Padikkal, I guess. I think Sanga will have enough other records to be happy with.

Jagadeesan’s 277 also edges out Ali Brown’s 268 against Glamorgan (can’t believe that’s all the way back in 2002 – I wish people would break records less often, it makes me feel old) and TN’s team total of 506/2 is the first List A over the 500 mark, edging out the more recently set record of 498/4 by England away to the Netherlands a few months back. The Dutch made a decent fist of their reply though, so the winning margin of 435 runs breaks a much older record: an English one-day county-vs-minor-county cup match in 1990 when the cup was 60 overs and under National Westminster Bank Trophy branding. Somerset (413/4, Chris Tavare 162* off a sadly unrecorded number of balls) thrashed Devon (67 all out), Dutch legend Roland Lefebvre taking 9.6-6-15-7 at an economy of 1.57 rpo. The partnership of 416 between Jagadeesan and Sudharsan is also the most for any wicket in List A cricket, displacing the Gayle/Samuels second-wicket stand of 372 for Windies for Zimbabwe in 2015

Someone who might be glad to see his record go is Australia’s Mick Lewis who had the misfortune to play in the infamous “438 match”, one of the very few ODIs to have (a) have acquired a name and (b) have its own Wikipedia article. It was the crazy 5th and final ODI in Australia’s 2005/6 tour of South Africa, which the teams went into with the series tied at 2-2. Ponting hit 164 to get Australia to 434/4 then SA chased it down to win by one wicket with one ball to spare. Lewis went for a wicketless 113 off his 10 overs, with Herschelle Gibbs (175) taking a particular liking to him. Lewis retains the crown of “most runs conceded in an ODI” but the List A title has now been handed to Chetan Anand’s 114. At least Anand took a wicket though, so Lewis still has the worst wicketless runs conceded in List A.

By the magic of numerology, 114 was also a separate record – the number of balls Jagadeesan took to complete his double-century – albeit not the outright winner, since it ties with Travis Head (who was eventually dismissed on 230 off 127 balls) versus Queensland last year. Over his complete innings, Head’s strike rate of 181 was previously the only List A double-century above a strike rate of 175. Jagadeesan has now scored the 37th List A double, and his final strike rate of 196 takes him to the very top of the tree. A remarkable win – shades of when Uganda beat Mali by 304 runs in a women’s T20I a few years ago, or when Bahrain beat Saudi Arabia by 269 runs in another this March. In the latter match the former Sri Lanka international Deepika Rasangika top-scored with 161* off 66 balls (SR 243.93) then was the Bahraini bowler with most wickets as she took 4-1-9-3 (economy 2.25 rpo) in the chase, which made the player of the match decision rather straightforward. That stands out from most of the other thrashings these stats led me to look over, where the leading bowler and batter generally seem to be mixed up a bit – would love to see someone really go take the player of the match decision out of the panel’s hands by scoring a double-century and taking five wickets.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/india-domestic-vijay-hazare-trophy-n-jagadeesan-277-shatters-world-records-in-list-a-cricket-1345726

Reminds me of the pros vs minor counties matches in the C&G cup, gone but not forgotten. Think some of those results would be more brutal these days given the way power-hitting has progressed.

Kamsha Yangfo’s 17 off 48 balls in the chase the match’s finest contribution for our money.

How unlucky do you have to be to have bowling figures like that and still only be an afterthought in any discussion of the match? Everyone’s going to talk about how Tamil Nadu’s wicketkeeper-opener Narayan Jagadeesan scored 277 not out (off 141 balls with 25 fours and 15, yes 15!!!, sixes, at a strike rate of 196) ably assisted by Sai Sudharsan’s 154 off 102 balls (19 fours, only 2 sixes, and a rather more disappointing strike rate of 151) in an opening partnership of 416 off 38.3 overs. In the end TN reached 506/2 off their 50 overs (the second wicket was Jagadeesan who fell at 448/2 after 41.4 overs) and a target of 507 was clearly a bit steep for Arunachal Pradesh. Obviously that helped TN’s bowlers during the chase, so perhaps M. Siddarth shouldn’t complain too much, but still… unlucky.

Just not as unlucky as AP’s bowlers – all eight of them. Chetan Anand was the only one to manage a century (10-0-114-1) but that’s a bit harsh as he was also the only one to bowl his full allocation, and his economy rate was actually not too bad compared to some of the others. He also had the consolation of dismissing a double-centurion, which is rare in one-day cricket, and did so 23 runs (or four sixes, judging by Jagadeesan’s mood) before that turned into an even more humiliating triple-century. Well done that man.

The full onslaught is documented at https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/vijay-hazare-trophy-2022-23-1332914/arunachal-pradesh-vs-tamil-nadu-elite-group-c-1333156/full-scorecard