Kiran Carlson yesterday came close to a unique place in the record books of Glamorgan County Cricket Club as he narrowly missed out on becoming not only the youngest centurion for the Club in first-class cricket, but also the youngest batsman to score a double-hundred as he made 191 against Gloucestershire at The SSE SWALEC.
On September 12th last summer, the former pupil of Whitchurch High School became, at 18 years and 119 days old, the youngest centurion in first-class cricket for Glamorgan, and a year and eight days later, he yesterday came within nine runs of becoming the Club’s youngest-ever double centurion, thereby beating the record set last summer by his colleague Aneurin Donald who posted a double-hundred against Derbyshire at Colwyn Bay when 19 years and 210 days old.
Kiran’s 191 was also the highest score by a homegrown batsman for the Welsh county since the Stadium was created, beating the 172 by Ben Wright against the same opponents at the ground in 2010. Kiran also came within nine runs of joining a small and select group of batsmen to have scored a double-hundred for Glamorgan at the Cardiff ground in Championship cricket. It includes overseas batsmen Viv Richards and Jimmy Maher, plus Hugh Morris, Adrian Dale and Matthew Maynard - three members of the Championship-winning team of 1997 who twenty years ago on September 20th were celebrating the county’s title success at Taunton.
For the record, the full details of double-hundreds for Glamorgan at the Cardiff ground are:
- 233* Hugh Morris v Warwickshire 1997
- 224* Viv Richards v Middlesex 1993
- 217 Jimmy Maher v Essex 2001
- 214* Adrian Dale v Middlesex 1993
- 214 Matthew Maynard v Lancashire 1996
- 204 Matthew Maynard v Nottinghamshire 1991
- 202* Hugh Morris v Yorkshire 1996