County batsman hits highest score in Lord’s 210-year history

There have been six first-class triple centuries at Lord’s in its 210-year history. Northeast has now hit the biggest of the lot

Sam Northeast’s unbeaten 335 for Glamorgan broke the record for the highest first-class score at Lord’s in its 210-year history.
Middlesex invited Glamorgan to bat first and Northeast cashed in, overtaking the 333 Graham Gooch made for England against India in 1990.
Cricket’s inaugural first class match was played at Lord’s and there have been six triple centuries in more than 2,800 matches at the ground. Northeast’s was the biggest score of the lot.
Northeast has long been considered one of the finest batsmen never to be given a chance by England, but he has made a habit of carving out historically-large innings since moving to Glamorgan, his fifth county.
In 2022, his first season with the club, he smashed an unbeaten 410 not out, the highest-ever score for Glamorgan, in a remarkable win at Leicester. Now he has the county’s second-highest score ever, but more notably the highest individual score at the home of cricket.
Northeast raised his bat for the seventh time in his innings in acknowledgement of the milestone, and promptly declared at the end of that over. Glamorgan had made 620 for three, and he had been involved in various vast partnerships: 129 with Billy Root (67), 176 with Kiran Carlson (77) and finally an unbeaten 299 with Colin Ingram (132 not out). None of Middlesex’s bowlers went at less than 3.5 runs per over across the 139 overs they were in the field.
Bizarrely, while he now has a triple century to go with his quadruple century, none of Northeast’s 30 first-class hundreds are doubles. He has 28 between 100 and 199. 
In this innings, Northeast faced 412 balls, hitting 36 fours and six sixes. As he neared the milestone, he passed 13,000 first-class runs.
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