Travis Head made the second double hundred of his one-day career © Getty Images
South Australia captain Travis Head has made history becoming just the third player to score two double-centuries in List A cricket after hammering 230 against Queensland at Karen Rolton Oval in Adelaide.
Head joins India Rohit Sharma, who has scored three in ODI cricket, and Englishman Ali Brown, who has the highest score in List A cricket, as the only men to have managed multiple double centuries, with Head adding to the 202 he scored against Western Australia in the Marsh Cup in 2015.
Head made 230 from 127 balls – the sixth-highest List A score – with 28 fours and 8 sixes to help set up South Australia’s total of 8 for 389 from 48 overs, with two overs lost to rain. Head’s innings was the second-highest score in Marsh Cup history behind D’Arcy Short’s 257, as well as the fastest List A double-hundred (off 114 balls). The team total was South Australia’s second-highest in competition history.
Head last played ODI cricket for Australia in 2018 when he was dropped after three single-figure scores in a series against South Africa. Since then in 21 List A innings he has made 1136 runs at an average of 63.11 and a phenomenal strike-rate of 121.75, with three centuries and six half centuries. His love affair with Karen Rolton Oval continues as well, averaging 95 in 11 innings there across Marsh Cup and Sheffield Shield cricket including three scores in excess of 163.
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Alex Malcolm is an Associate Editor at ESPNcricinfo
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