Glamorgan's Sam Northeast scored an unbeaten 410 in county cricket

Leicester , dated 23

32-year-old Sam Northeast, playing for Glamorgan in England's county cricket, created history by scoring an unbeaten 410 runs. Northeast faced 450 balls and hit 45 fours and 3 sixes. He scored this huge score by staying at the crease for 603 minutes i.e. 10 hours and 3 minutes. Which was the ninth highest individual score in the history of first class cricket.

Northeast's innings became the third-highest innings recorded on English soil. Against Leicestershire's 584, Glamorgan declared their first innings at 795 for five at lunch on the fourth and final day. Northeast was not out due to this. Colin Ingram scored 139 runs. While Chris Cook was not out for 191 runs. A marathon and unbeaten partnership of 461 runs was recorded in the sixth wicket between Northeast and Cooke. In the last over of the morning session, North East crossed the 400-run score by hitting two consecutive sixes against Roman Walker.

Record partnership of 461* runs

An unbeaten partnership of 461 runs was recorded in 71.3 overs in the sixth wicket between North East and Cooke. Which became the highest sixth-wicket partnership in England's first-class cricket. While he has the second highest sixth wicket partnership in overall first class cricket.