England Lions batsmen Ben Duckett and Daniel Bell-Drummond smashed their ways into the record books as the duo were involved in the second highest partnership in List A cricket. The put on an unbeaten 367 off 232 balls for the second wicket against Sri Lanka A at Canterbury and fell just five runs short of the record held by Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels, who had stitched together a 372-run stand in the ICC World Cup 2015 group stage match at Canberra. Duckett made an unbeaten 220 off just 131 deliveries, which is eighth highest score in List A and only the second highest individual score by an English player, behind record holder Ali Brown, who scored 268 for Surrey against Glamorgan in 2002. READ: Daniel Bell-Drummond keen to impress for England Lions against Pakistan A
Bell-Drummond finished with 171 off 139 balls. England Lions posted 425 for 1 in this match, batting first and in reply Sri Lanka A managed to score just 285, thereby losing the match by 140 runs. This tri-series also involves Pakistan A. But England A have won the tri-series as they have won most matches in the tournament.
Duckett recorded a 150-plus score for the second time in a week, following his unbeaten 163 against Pakistan A last Wednesday, as he and Bell-Drummond flayed the tourists’ bowlers to all parts.
On his achievement Duckett said, “It’s been the best day of my career so far. There were a couple of times early on when I hit it, it dropped short of fielders and I got a bit of luck. When I got to 100 I said I’m going to push on. It was my day I guess – every time I hit the ball it went into the gap. There was a lot of spin bowling, which I do prefer facing. I’ll try and continue this run of form and score some runs when I go back to Northampton,” as quoted by ecb.co.uk.
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