“The Oval” ground at Surrey is often a track for those batting, but with big boundaries in some directions its not always the easiest place to score big. Yesterday though, Surrey smashed the world first class one day record for a limited overs game. They scored a massive 496-4, with Ali Brown the main run scorer with 176 runs from just 97 balls!

Its quite difficult to put into words quite how difficult this is, especially against a first class county. I’m part of a club where we managed to score 514 in a limited overs game last year, but the ground was pretty small and the opposition didn’t consist of a full complement of players either! So how did they get to this total?! I would like to have seen this feat, why did Sky have to choose to go to Somerset instead?!  Rikki Clarke chipped in after Brown and Benning had hit centuries, by smacking 82 runs from just 28 balls! Must have been some batting track!

Congrats to Surrey, and I’ll be looking out for any more big scores coming from London!