By ANI

NEW DELHI: Nineteen years in the past, former New Zealand drummer Nathan Astle recorded the quickest double ton of all time within the match’s longest format. He achieved the feat towards England on the AMI Stadium in Christchurch.

Astle scored twice the ton within the second inning of the sport as New Zealand set a objective of 550 factors. He got here out at bat within the forty third with New Zealand at 119/3 and made his means by means of 200 with simply 153 balls.

The New Zealand batsman performed his pure recreation from the beginning and confronted the English bowlers.

Astle scored 28 limits and 11 sixes up his innings. He scored 222 from simply 168 balls and regardless of the sensational blow within the second spherical of the primary Check in 2002, the English workforce gained the match by 98 factors.

Astle performed 81 assessments, 223 ODIs and 4 T20Is for New Zealand. He retired from worldwide cricket in 2007, simply earlier than the fiftieth World Cup within the West Indies.

Nonetheless, he’s nonetheless the quickest participant to succeed in a double hundred check. Whereas Ben Stokes in 2016 nearly broke the document, the versatile Englishman ended up hitting the double century in 163 balls.

Former opener Virender Sehwag recorded the quickest double by an Indian drummer.