Jagadeesan hits 277, breaks world record

BENGALURU: Tamil Nadu batter Narayan Jagadeesan on Monday shattered the world record for the highest ever individual score in men’s List A cricket by hammering a 141-ball 277 against Arunachal Pradesh in the Vijay Hazare Trophy here.

Tamil Nadu won the Group C match by 435 runs, making it the biggest victory margin in a List A match. The previous record was Somerset’s 346-run win over Devon in 1990.

The 26-year-old Jagadeesan bettered the record of Alistair Brown’s previous high of 268 for Surrey against Glamorgan in 2002. The Indian record for highest List A score of 264 by Rohit Sharma in an ODI against

Sri Lanka was also obliterated in the process.

Tamil Nadu’s 506/2 in the match is also the highest team total in men’s List A cricket, bettering the previous best of 498/4 by England against the Netherlands earlier this year.

The previous highest List A total in India was 457/4 by Mumbai against Puducherry in Jaipur in 2021.

Veteran India cricketer and Jagadeesan’s TN teammate Dinesh Karthik congratulated him and said in a tweet: “WORLD RECORD alert. What an amazing effort by @Jagadeesan_200. Couldn’t be happier for him. Big things await. Sai Sudarshan what an amazing tournament so far. This opening combo is killing it. Well done boys.”