On Monday, Tamil Nadu’s Narayan Jagadeesan performed a supernatural act while holding a bat, earning him a special place in Indian cricket history. The 26-year-old scored a record 277 runs in just 141 deliveries in a Vijay Hazare Trophy match against Arunachal Pradesh at Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy Stadium. He hit 15 sixes and 25 boundaries. Numerous records were broken by this enormous individual score. He is now the first batsman in history to achieve this feat, as it was his fifth consecutive century in the current domestic tournament.

Within the cricketing community of Tamil Nadu, Jagdeesan is a well-known name. He played for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL), but prior to his heroics against Arunachal on Monday, he had never been the center of attention.

277 was Narayan Jagadeesan’s highest individual score in men’s List A cricket against Arunachal Pradesh at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. 

The previous record was 268 set in 2002 by Alistair Brown against Glamorgan. In addition, Jagadeesan’s 277 runs against Pushpadana Ladies in the 2007 Sri Lanka Women’s One-Day tournament surpasses Sripali Weerakkody’s 271 runs. 

1 Jagadeesan became the first male List A cricket player to score a hundred in five consecutive innings. Kumar Sangakkara had four centuries in a row between 2014 and 2015, Alviro Petersen between 2015 and 2016, and Devdutt Padikkal between 2020 and 21. In this match against Arunachal, the first team in men’s List A cricket to score 500 or more runs, Tamil Nadu scored 506 for 2. England’s previous record was 498 for 4 against the Netherlands earlier this year. 

114 balls that Jagadeesan used to score a double century against Arunachal, making him the second-fastest player in men’s List A cricket. Travis Head additionally took 114 balls for his twofold ton against Queensland in the Bog One-Day Cup a year ago.During his 141-ball 277, Jagadeesan’s strike rate of 196.45 was the highest for a double hundred in men’s List A cricket.

The next most noteworthy was 181.1 by Travis Head, when he scored 230 off 127 balls against Queensland in 2021. In this format, none of the remaining 36 double-centuries had a strike rate greater than 175. The first pair in men’s List A cricket to share a 400-run stand for any wicket was 416 runs scored by Jagadeesan and B Sai Sudharsan for the first wicket against Arunachal. Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels’ previous record-setting partnership for the second wicket against Zimbabwe in 2015 was 372 runs. In the current Vijay Hazare Trophy, Jagadeesan scored five hundreds, the most by any batter in any competition. Devdutt Padikkal (2020-21), Prithvi Shaw (2020-21), Ruturaj Gaikwad (2021-22), and Virat Kohli each had four hundreds. In his 277-run innings, Jagadeesan hit 15 sixes, the most by any batter in a Vijay Hazare Trophy innings.

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The previous record was Yashasvi Jaiswal’s 203 against Jharkhand in the 2019-20 season, when he hit 12 sixes. Jagadeesan scored 799 runs in this tournament, the second most by a batter in a Vijay Hazare Trophy tournament. Prithvi Shaw set the record for most runs in an edition with 827 in the 2020-21 season.