Indian cricketers smash batting record that stood for 129 years

• Indian cricketers break the 129-year-old first-class record with nine half-centuries.
• Bengal declared at 773 for 7 in their quarter-final against Jharkhand.
• The highest was Sudip Gharami’s 186, while the other seven batters all reached fifty.

In the domestic Ranji Trophy, an Indian cricket team broke a 129-year-old first-class record by having nine batsmen strike half-centuries.

Bengal declared at 773 for 7 in the first innings of their quarter-final against Jharkhand in Bangalore on Wednesday.

Two batsmen scored hundreds, the highest of which was Sudip Gharami’s 186, while the other seven batters all reached fifty.

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Their innings broke a first-class record set in 1893 in Portsmouth, England, when an Australian touring team scored eight half-centuries in an 843-run innings against a combined team from Oxford and Cambridge universities.

“The frame will go down as a piece of diamond in the folklore of Bengal as well as #RanjiTrophy cricket history! What a team, what an effort! Proud to be a part of it,” batsman Manoj Tiwary, who scored 73, wrote on Twitter.

The frame will go down as a piece of diamond in the folklore of Bengal as well as #RanjiTrophy cricket history! What a team, what an effort! Proud to be a part of it… Joy Bangla! 🏏#TeamBengal pic.twitter.com/DVE6XV1PFj

— MANOJ TIWARY (@tiwarymanoj) June 8, 2022

Bengal’s achievement was lauded by India’s cricket body as a “milestone in first-class cricket”

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At midday on Thursday, the fourth day of the five-day tournament, Jharkhand were 212-7 in reply, trailing by 561 runs in their first innings.

Maharaja Ranjitsinhji, an Indian prince who played for England in the 1890s, is the name of the Ranji Trophy.