45-year-old Darren Stevens smashes 190 in maximum one-sided partnership in FC historical past
Darren Stevens, Kent’s 45-year-old all-rounder, performed a knock for the ages in England’s County Championship on Friday. Stevens scored an insane 190 from 149 balls, rescuing his staff from 128/eight with a ninth wicket partnership that rejected Glamorgan.
Stevens added a 166-run partnership for the ninth wicket with Miguel Cummins, who scored simply 1 run. This was once the easiest first class partnerships by which one participant scored greater than 90% of the runs. There have been 5 extras. Stevens scored 160 of the 166 runs (96.39%) within the partnership.
The nearest related partnership in First Magnificence historical past was once in 1911 when Ted Alletson scored 142 in a 152-run partnership with William Riley, a feat Jon Arlott wrote a ebook, Alletson’s Innings, about.
With 15 fours & 15 sixes, 150 of his Stevens’s 190 runs got here in limitations.
Experience EVERY boundary from Darren Stevens’ 190 ?
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— LV= Insurance coverage County Championship (@CountyChamp) May 21, 2021
??? A status ovation for Darren Stevens from everybody at @Spitfire_Ground @Stevo208 ? #SuperKent pic.twitter.com/81zm2Vh6tr
— Kent Cricket (@KentCricket) May 21, 2021
Paradoxically, Kent’s quantity 11 Matthew Quinn walked in and hit his first actual ball for 6 as smartly, whilst Miguel Cummins nonetheless remained on 1 on the non-striker’s finish. He was once sooner or later disregarded for 7 through Marnus Labuschagne as Kent have been all out for 307.
Stevens’s dream day persisted within the Glamorgan innings, as he were given Australian Marnus Labuschagne out LBW.
In fact he’s simply disregarded Marnus Labuschagne for the second one time this season
Reminder: Darren Stevens is 45!!! ?
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— LV= Insurance coverage County Championship (@CountyChamp) May 21, 2021
Darren Stevens is such an implausible cricketer. #LVCountyChamp
— Shikha Pandey (@shikhashauny) May 21, 2021
This was once the 36th first class hundred for Stevens, who grew to become 45 remaining month. He’s the oldest energetic participant in County cricket since 1995. In 2019, he turned into the oldest participant to attain a first class double-hundred since Walter Keeton in 1949. This yr, he turned into the oldest Wisden Cricketer of the Yr in 88 years.
As his exploits in Canterbury display, Darren Stevens is continuous to defy age.
