At 19 years and 263 days old, Aneurin Donald became the youngest-ever Glamorgan batsman to score 1,000 runs in a season as the teenage batsman reached the landmark on the third day of the Welsh county’s Specsavers County Championship against Gloucestershire at The SSE SWALEC.
The youngster came into the match at Cardiff with a first-class tally of 960 runs, and after being dismissed for 36 in the first innings, a cover drive for four against Jack Taylor saw the young batsman reach the target besides beating Matthew Maynard’s Club record, achieved in 1986 of scoring 1,000 runs when he was 20 years old.
Four other Glamorgan reached 1,000 runs in a season when in their early twenties with Hugh Morris (1986), Gilbert Parkhouse (1948), Mike Powell (1999) and Peter Walker (1958) all achieving the feat when 22 years oold.