Right-handed batter Sam Northeast said that he was more nervous while being in the 190s than in the 390s. On Saturday, July 23, the 32-year-old became the first batter after West Indies legend Brian Lara to score 400 in first-class cricket. Northeast stayed unbeaten on 410 as Glamorgan declared their first innings against Leicestershire in the County Championship match.
The veteran said that he desperately wanted to score a double century, something which had eluded him in his career. On the back of Northeast’s brilliant display of batting, Glamorgan won the match at Grace Road by an innings and 28 runs.
“191 was my highest in everything. I had a lot more nerves in the 190s than in the 390s, which sounds completely ridiculous to even talk about it now. I really wanted that double. That was something I wanted ticked off the list in my career and in some ways, I thought that was never going to happen,” Northeast was quoted as saying in an interview with ESPNcricinfo.
The Kent-born Northeast also reached within touching distance of 12,000 runs in first-class cricket as he is only 34 runs short of the milestone.
“It’s not something you think about all the time, is it? ‘I want to get a double hundred this week’. You just think, ‘let’s rebuild again and keep going’. You’ve never got enough, as all my coaches over the years have told me. I guess it was kind of true,” he added.
