Desk Report:
Harjas Singh was a real disaster with the bat in Sydney First Grade cricket. The Indian-origin cricketer crushed Sydney’s bowlers in a 50-over tournament at Pratt Park in Ashfield today. He hit a triple century off just 132 balls.
Harjas was born in Sydney in 2005. His parents are Indian. They migrated to Australia from Chandigarh, India in 2000. Harjas, who started cricket at the age of 8, was one of the members of the Australian team in the Youth World Cup last year. In the final, he played an innings of 55 runs off 64 balls against his father’s country, India. This time, Harjas came into the discussion by hitting a triple century in Australian club cricket.
Harjas came to the crease in the 11th over of the innings as the number 3 batsman. He had to wait until the fifth ball to get his first run. He completed his fifty off 33 balls. He played 74 balls to reach the magic three-digit figure. That is, Harjas batted a little slowly to make a century from fifty. However, after the century, he unleashed the biggest storm with the bat on the Sydney bowlers.
Harjas played only 29 balls to make a century from a double century. This youth World Cup winning cricketer played the same number of balls for Australia to make the next 100 runs. He hit sixes in the last 3 balls on the way to his triple century. In the end, Harjas scored 314 runs from 141 balls. He hit 35 sixes and 14 fours in this innings. He scored 266 runs from boundaries. His team Western scored 483 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs. In reply, Sydney could not score more than 287 runs.
Despite scoring a triple century, Harjas could not become the owner of the highest individual innings in List ‘A’ cricket. Because Sydney First Grade Cricket is not recognized as List ‘A’ cricket, the record of Indian cricketer Narayan Jagadiman remains intact. This cricketer played an innings of 277 runs off 141 balls for Tamil Nadu in the Vijay Hazare Trophy in 2022.
