Newly appointed English Test skipper Ben Stokes has slammed a record breaking century in the ongoing County championship for Durham vs Worcestershire on Day 2 of the match.
Thanks to Stokes’ brutal hitting, Durham declared their innings on 580/6, with Stokes contributing 161 runs (88 balls) to the total. In reply, Worcestershire were 169/6 at close.
Stokes’ number of maximums was a record for a Championship innings, beating the 16 achieved by Australia’s Andrew Symonds (1995) and England’s Graham Napier (2011) for Gloucestershire and Essex respectively.
“It was good fun. I think the game got set up very nicely by our top-five (batters). I just had to play the situation and then, once we got our last batting point, it was about trying to get as many runs as we could,” said Stokes after his innings.
“There are records you don’t know (17 sixes), and people bring them up. You don’t play the game for stuff like that,” added Stokes
