Abhinav Mukund remained unbeaten on 114 off 145 balls © Getty Images
Abhinav Mukund remained unbeaten on 104 off 142 balls © Getty Images (File Photo)

On December 26, 2015, Abhinav Mukund was left high and dry on a 142-ball 104 in the semi-final of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2015-16 against Gujarat at Alur. Chasing 248, Tamil Nadu were skittled out for 217 in 47.3 overs. Akshar Patel (10-1-43-6) was the wrecker-in-chief, while Parthiv Patel stumped four men, all of them off Akshar. Mukund and Dinesh Karthik (41) added 84 for the opening stand, but nobody else rose to the occasion, leaving poor Mukund stranded. In the process, Mukund became the second batsman to carry his bat in an all-out innings in a Vijay Hazare Trophy match. Mukund may also be technically the first, for when VB Chandrasekhar (also of Tamil Nadu) did the same in 1993-94, the Ranji Trophy One-Day Tournament was not named after Hazare. UPDATES: Gujarat vs Tamil Nadu, Vijay Hazare Trophy 2015-16, 2nd semi-final at Alur

Chandra and Mukund are the only Indians to achieve this feat. The first to carry his bat in a completed List A innings was Brian Bolus, back in 1963. Mukund is also the 46th cricketer to have achieved the feat.

Carrying bat through a complete innings in a List A match (ODIs are mentioned in a separate column)

Player ODI Score Team score Team Against Venue Season
Brian Bolus 100* 159 Nottinghamshire Yorkshire Middlesbrough 1963
David Smith 36* 109 Derbyshire Kent Chesterfield 1969
Mudassar Nazar 88* 155 Pakistan Sri Lanka Colombo CC 1975-76
John Hampshire 77* 142 Yorkshire Essex Leyton 1976
Mudassar Nazar 109* 225 United Bank Limited PIA Lahore 1980-81
Richard Austin 124* 220 Jamaica Leeward Islands Sabina Park 1981-82
Brian Whitfield 72* 174 Natal Transvaal Kingsmead 1984-85
Abid Raza 51* 132 Sukkur Quetta Karachi 1984-85
Mark Benson 57* 124 Kent Middlesex Canterbury 1986
Hugh Morris 16* 83 Glamorgan Yorkshire Headingley 1987
Kim Barnett 90* 174 Derbyshire Glamorgan Newport 1988
Geoff Cook 53* 161 Northamptonshire Cheshire Chester 1988
Kyle Wealleans 77* 212 Northern Districts Otago Alexandra 1991-92
Peter Bowler 76* 201 Derbyshire Surrey Ilkeston 1993
VB Chandrasekhar 39* 69 Tamil Nadu Hyderabad Chepauk 1993-94
Grant Flower Yes 84* 205 Zimbabwe England SCG 1994-95
Saeed Anwar Yes 103* 219 Pakistan Zimbabwe Harare 1994-95
Nick Night Yes 125* 246 England Pakistan Trent Bridge 1996
Grant Flower 88* 164 Mashonaland Matabeleland Bulawayo 1998-99
Ridley Jacobs Yes 49* 110 West Indies Australia Old Trafford 1999
Darren Robinson 74* 166 Essex Leicestershire Chelmsford 1999
Greg Blewett 101* 193 South Australia Queensland Adelaide Oval 1999-00
Damien Martyn Yes 116* 191 Australia New Zealand Eden Park 1999-00
Herschelle Gibbs Yes 59* 101 South Africa Pakistan Sharjah 1999-00
Alec Stewart Yes 100* 192 England West Indies Trent Bridge 2000
Keith Hibbert 93* 226 Jamaica Canada Nain 2000-01
Mark Richardson 88* 172 Otago Wellington Basin Reserve 2000-01
Javed Omar Yes 33* 103 Bangladesh Zimbabwe Harare 2000-01
Arosha Perera 92* 203 Chilaw Marians CC Galle CC Gampaha 2001-02
Javed Miandad 97* 170 Lahore Blues Habib Bank Limited Lahore 2001-02
Stuart Carlisle 100* 240 Zimbabweans Australia A WACA 2003-04
Andrew Puttick 101* 192 Western Province Boland Dolphins Newlands 2004-05
James Benning 189* 337 Surrey Gloucestershire Bristol 2006
Alastair Cook 81* 204 Essex Northamptonshire Northampton 2007
Frederik Klokker 99* 223 Denmark UAE Windhoek 2007-08
Rivash Gobind 30* 84 KwaZulu-Natal Eastern Province St George’s Park 2007-08
Divan van Wyk 59* 113 Free State KwaZulu-Natal Inland Pietermaritzburg 2008-09
Mario Olivier 74* 178 KwaZulu-Natal Inland Eastern Province Despatch 2009-10
Terryn Fray 34* 91 Bermuda UAE Hamilton 2010
Kasun Bodhisha 58* 154 Moors Sports Club Sri Lanka Navy Sports Club Welisara 2010-11
Christopher Nash 124* 249 Sussex Kent Canterbury 2011
Alviro Petersen 93* 184 Glamorgan Unicorns Wormsley 2011
Azhar Ali Yes 81* 199 Pakistan Sri Lanka Premadasa 2012
Pabasara Waduge 43* 116 Tamil Union Sri Lanka Army Sports Club Panagoda 2014-15
Marcus Harris 44* 101 Cricket Australia XI Western Australia North Sydney Oval 2015-16
Abhinav Mukund 104* 217 Tamil Nadu Delhi Alur 2015-16

– Mudassar Nazar and Grant Flower are the only ones to carry their bat in an all-out List A innings twice.

– Frederik Klokker scored 99*.

– James Benning’s 189* is the highest score on the list, while Hugh Morris’ 16* is the lowest. Morris’ case is a curious one, for Greg Thomas, batting at No. 7, scored 33 in a 34-run stand.

– Chandra’s 39* is the lowest.

– Benning scored 189* out of Surrey’s 337, the highest all-out List A total where someone carried his bat. Tamil Nadu’s 69, containing Chandra’s 39*, is the lowest.