Travis Head makes historical past hammering 230 in Marsh Cup

Left-hander makes quickest ever Listing A double-century, off 114 balls, surpassing his personal report to turn into the third participant to attain a couple of doubles

South Australia captain Travis Head has made historical past changing into simply the 3rd participant to attain two double-centuries in Listing A cricket after hammering 230 in opposition to Queensland at Karen Rolton Oval in Adelaide.

Head joins India Rohit Sharma, who has scored 3 in ODI cricket, and Englishman Ali Brown, who has the perfect rating in Listing A cricket, as the one males to have controlled a couple of double centuries, with Head including to the 202 he scored in opposition to Western Australia within the Marsh Cup in 2015.

Head made 230 from 127 balls – the sixth-highest Listing A rating – with 28 fours and eight sixes to assist arrange South Australia’s overall of 8 for 389 from 48 overs, with two overs misplaced to rain. Head’s innings was once the second-highest rating in Marsh Cup historical past in the back of D’Arcy Quick’s 257, in addition to the quickest Listing A double-hundred (off 114 balls). The workforce overall was once South Australia’s second-highest in festival historical past.

Head remaining performed ODI cricket for Australia in 2018 when he was once dropped after 3 single-figure rankings in a sequence in opposition to South Africa. Since then in 21 Listing A innings he has made 1136 runs at a median of 63.11 and a gorgeous strike-rate of 121.75, with 3 centuries and 6 part centuries. His love affair with Karen Rolton Oval continues as smartly, averaging 95 in 11 innings there throughout Marsh Cup and Sheffield Defend cricket together with 3 rankings in far more than 163.

He entered with the rating at 1 for 22 within the fourth over following the lack of Alex Carey. Head started his attack at the Queensland bowlers right away and not relented. He raced to his century off simply 65 balls, mentioning with a six over sq. leg. His moment hundred took 49 balls with the one factor to halt his growth being a brief burst of rain that price the Redbacks two overs.

Head scored everywhere in the flooring however was once specifically savage on the rest quick clubbing sixes over sq. leg and level. He was once fearless together with his footwork to the spinners smashing them many times down the bottom. He in the end holed out at lengthy on within the forty seventh over.

He were given nice strengthen from Jake Weatherald who made 97 of their 244-run stand. Weatherald neglected out on his century when he was once stuck off a forefront at mid on from the bowling of Gurinder Sandhu. The precise-armer took 4 for 73 on his Queensland debut having performed up to now for New South Wales and Tasmania.