Kiran Carlson became Glamorgan’s youngest-ever centurion in first-class cricket on the opening day of Glamorgan’s Specsavers County Championship at Chelmsford.
The former pupil of Whitchurch High School reached three figures as he clipped Ravi Bopara to short mid-wicket.
At 18 years and 119 days old, he is the youngest centurion in first-class cricket beating Mike Llewellyn’s century against Cambridge University at Swansea in 1972 when 18 years and 213 days
“It’s a great day," said Carlson, "it has been a fantastic partnership and hopefully we’ll carry on tomorrow.
“When you start playing cricket when you’re seven or eight you always go and watch Glamorgan in T20 games and always think could be there in a few years.”
Carlson took a five-wicket haul on his debut against Northants earlier in the month, and said: “I’m more of a batsman and it is lovely to get my first hundred under my belt. It’s a great start to my career and hopefully I can set up the game for us.”
Coming in at 34/4, Kiran added: “it’s almost when you’re in that position there is less pressure. Obviously the pitch was doing a bit and I think there is a challenge in that situation.
“We’re still not out of the woods yet. We should really try and push on tomorrow and get a decent first-innings total.”
Kiran now has a hundred and a five-for to his name in county cricket, and to put his acheivements into perspective only Surrey’s Jack Crawford in 1905 and Worcestershire’s Frank Chester in 1913 had achieved this feat in Championship cricket before their 19th birthday.