A club side from Gloucestershire are waiting to see if they have made the highest-ever total in T20 cricket after piling up an incredible 417-2.
Dumbleton CC, who play in the Premier One top tier division of the West of England league, recorded the mammoth total against Hatherley and Reddings CC on Tuesday.
Opener Ewan Gegg smashed 206 not out off 55 balls, with 13 fours and 23 sixes, while Dan Holland made 122 off 37 deliveries.
Dumbleton’s batters cleared the ropes 47 times in total.
Unsurprisingly, Hatherley and Reddings CC came up short by 188 runs as they were bowled out for 229.
Harry Bloomfield, who conceded 35 from his one over in Dumbleton’s innings, became the third centurion of the match, striking 109 off 48 balls.
“We all said it’s one of the weirdest and [most] fantastic games of cricket we’ve seen,” Gegg told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
“We don’t see it being broken for a long time. It was such an odd game.”
Dumbleton are seeking clarity on whether the score counts as an official record for a T20 game, pointing to another high-scoring T20 game in India in 2017 where Maavi finished on 416-2.
Last September England amassed 304-2 – a record total in a T20 International between two Test nations – in their win against South Africa, while the highest total recorded in a professional game was 349-5 set by Indian side Baroda in 2024.
“We got a really good start with me and Tom Kelly [64 off 25 balls] and we kept going with the momentum,” 23-year-old Gegg added.
“We had quite a good batting order so we thought we’d keep flying, keep going and it got to a point where I didn’t think it was going to be on for the 200.
“It got to the 15th, 16th over and I thought there’s a slight chance if things go extremely well and luckily they did.”
As for why the game ended up being such a high scoring affair, Gegg believed a few factors were at play.
“We wanted to win to try and get a home quarter-final for the next round and I don’t know whether that had a part to play, but it was just so random,” he said.
“Our ground is known for being quite a good wicket and it is sometimes small one side.
“The pink ball just seemed to go a bit further and not do as much and I think everyone just got in a bit of a mode and kept going and going.”
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