STAT ATTACK – Sam Northeast makes 410* at Leicester

Sam Northeast re-wrote a series of records at Grace Road during Glamorgan’s LV=County Championship match against Leicestershire. When the declaration came at lunch today he was unbeaten on 410* having beaten Steve James’ Club record of 309* and registering the third highest score in Championdhip history (writes Andrew Hignell)

The list below shows the top six highest first-class scores for the Welsh county, with Sam’s score being the highest by a Glamorgan batter on English soil and the highest score by an uncapped batter for the Club:

410* by Sam Northeast v Leicestershire at GRace Road, Leicester, 2022
309* by Steve James v Sussex at Colwyn Bay, 2000
299 by Mike Powell v Gloucestershire at Cheltenham College, 2006
287* by Emrys Davies v Gloucestershire at Rodney Parade, Newport, 1939
280* by Dick Duckfield v Surrey at The Oval, 1936
259* by Steve James v Nottinghamshire at Colwyn Bay, 1999

On 283, Sam also completed his 1.00th run of the first-class season. He became the first Glamorgan batter to this Landmark since Marnus Labuschagne on 2nd July 2019, and the first England-qualified since both Aneurin Donald and Will Bragg in September 2016. It was Sam’s 19th first-class innings of the summer and, as the list below shows, only seven batters have reached this Landmark in fewer innings for the Welsh county:

15 – Majid Khan in 1972.
16 – Steve James in 1997 and Marnus Labuschagne in 2019.
18 – Alan Butcher in 1990; Hugh Morris in 1996; Matthew Maynard in 1996; Matthew Goodwin in 2013.
19 – Maurice Turnbull in 1933; Hugh Morris in 1991; Sam Northeast in 2022.

Overall, Sam amassed a record 258* runs in the day, and as the list below shows, this broke Matthew Maynard’s Club record of 238* against Hampshire at Southampton

258* SA Northeast v Leicestershire at Grace Road, 2022
238* MP Maynard v Hampshire at Southampton, 1991
235* SP James v Essex at Chelmsford, 2002
234 AHT Donald v Derbyshire at Colwyn Bay, 2016
229 WT Root v Northamptonshire at Northampton, 2019
218* DE Davies v Gloucestershire at Rodney Parade, Newport, 1939

In all, Glamorgan scored 452 runs – as shown below, their fourth highest daily total

499 2nd day v Essex at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, 2002
493 4th day v Worcestershire at Abergavenny, 1990
481 1st day v Derbyshire at Colwyn Bay, 2016
452 3rd day v Leicestershire at Grace Road, 2022

In all, Sam Struck 45 fours and 3 sixes – another record as the list below shows:

41 (41 fours) by Steve James (309*) v Sussex at Colwyn Bay, 2000
41 (26 fours, 15 sixes) by Aneurin Donald v Derbyshire at Colwyn Bay, 2016
40 (38 fours, 2 sixes) by Mike Powell (299) v Gloucestershire at Cheltenham College, 2006
39 (39 fours) by Dick Duckfield (280*) v Surrey at The Oval, 1936
37 (31 fours, 6 sixes) by Matt Maynard (243) v Hampshire at Southampton, 1990
36 (36 fours) by SP James (227) v Northamptonshire at Northampton, 1998 and Mike Powell (198)v Durham at Chester-le-Street, 2003

His tally was also the highest for Glamorgan in a first-class match, beating the previous best of 330 by Dick Duckfield against Surrey at The Oval, 1936 whilst only two other batters have scored more in a Championship match:

501* by Brian Lara – Warwickshire v Durham at Edgbaston 1994
424 by Archie MacLaren – Lancashire v Somerset at Taunton, 1895
410* by Sam Northeast – Glamorgan v Leicestershire at Grace Road, 2022
405* by Graeme Hick – Worcestershire v Somerset at Taunton, 1988
366 by Neil Fairbrother – Lancashire v Surrey at The Oval, 1990
357* by Bobby Abel – Surrey v Somerset at The Oval, 1899
355 by Kevin Pietersen – Surrey v Leicestershire at The Oval, 2015