Highest Innings

[miked]

score without a 100 by a player is now 531 by SL vs Bangles at Chittagong [both Mendis'
got 90s], who look likely to win again in bdesh as the bangles have only 3 wkts left to
get 243. When i saw this i felt sure it must be a record, but in fact it only just beat
Indias 524-9 at Kanpur in 1976, although that match was drawn despite 479 overs being
bowled!

mike

[David North]

Post by miked
score without a 100 by a player is now 531 by SL vs Bangles at
Chittagong [both Mendis' got 90s], who look likely to win again in bdesh
as the bangles have only 3 wkts left to
get 243. When i saw this i felt sure it must be a record, but in fact it
only just beat Indias 524-9 at Kanpur in 1976, although that match was
drawn despite 479 overs being bowled!

The most remarkable thing about the Kanpur innings was that it held the
record despite the highest score being only 70. There was a 70 in SL's
new record as well, but also 3 scores over 85.

[John Hall]

Post by miked
score without a 100 by a player is now 531 by SL vs Bangles at
Chittagong [both Mendis' got 90s], who look likely to win again in
bdesh as the bangles have only 3 wkts left to
get 243. When i saw this i felt sure it must be a record, but in fact
it only just beat Indias 524-9 at Kanpur in 1976, although that match
was drawn despite 479 overs being bowled!
mike

Is that highest in a Test, or in all f-c cricket?

[David North]

Post by John Hall

Post by miked
score without a 100 by a player is now 531 by SL vs Bangles at
Chittagong [both Mendis' got 90s], who look likely to win again in
bdesh as the bangles have only 3 wkts left to
get 243. When i saw this i felt sure it must be a record, but in fact
it only just beat Indias 524-9 at Kanpur in 1976, although that match
was drawn despite 479 overs being bowled!
mike

Is that highest in a Test, or in all f-c cricket?

In a Test. The FC record is 671/9d by Surrey v Kent at Beckenham two
years ago, when they demolished the previous record of 609.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/county-championship-division-one-2022-1297650/kent-vs-surrey-1297709/full-scorecard

https://stats.acscricket.com/Records/First_Class/Overall/Team/Large_Totals_Without_Century.html

[John Hall]

Post by David North

Post by John Hall

Post by miked
score without a 100 by a player is now 531 by SL vs Bangles at
Chittagong [both Mendis' got 90s], who look likely to win again in
bdesh as the bangles have only 3 wkts left to
get 243. When i saw this i felt sure it must be a record, but in
fact it only just beat Indias 524-9 at Kanpur in 1976, although that
match was drawn despite 479 overs being bowled!
mike

Is that highest in a Test, or in all f-c cricket?

In a Test. The FC record is 671/9d by Surrey v Kent at Beckenham two
years ago, when they demolished the previous record of 609.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/county-championship-division-one-202
2-1297650/kent-vs-surrey-1297709/full-scorecard
https://stats.acscricket.com/Records/First_Class/Overall/Team/Large_Tota
ls_Without_Century.html

Thanks. Since Surrey are my club, I really should have remembered that.
But my memory nowadays is such that I might have had a better chance of
remembering it had it happened forty years ago rather than two!