Indian connect to cricket records being broken in England. What? Really?

Records are meant to be broken And taking that maxim to heart English county teams Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire set several records during their Royal London OneDay Cup gameThe record books had two new entries and some old ones wiped out in an astonishing run spree at NottinghamshiresTrent Bridge ground on Monday which saw a record English oneday partnership and the most aggregate runs scored in aList A matchThats it Notts post 4458 the 2nd highest list A score in history Here are some of the records NottsvNhants pictwittercomM8mcljfJCLmdash Nottinghamshire CCC TrentBridge June 6 2016Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire set a new record for most runs scored in a 50over fixture in England in a oneday matchOne half of a partnership worth 342 heres the best of Wesselmania here at Trent Bridge NottsvNhants pictwittercomjsqZKIsGtGmdash Nottinghamshire CCC TrentBridge June 6 2016Nottinghamshire had racked up 4458 the secondhighest List A score ever recorded The highest even now isSurreys 496 for 4 against Gloucestershire at The Oval in 2007Notts openers Riki Wessels and Michael Lumb put on 342 from 392 overs the highestever stand in oneday cricketin England Wessels was eventually dismissed for a careerbest 146 off 97 balls while Lumb made 184Well just leave these here highlights of Michael Lumbs stunning 184 this afternoon NottsvNhants pictwittercomIn2Abo6XNtmdash Nottinghamshire CCC TrentBridge June 6 2016If Northamptonshire had chased down the target it what would have been another record for a team batting second Butthey fell short despite South African Rory Kleinveldts 128 off 63 balls which included nine sixes and 10 foursRorys teammate Adam Rossington also hit a quickfire 97 off 69 ballsNorthamptonshire managed 425 falling short by merely 20 runs But in the process the two teams managed to score anunprecedented 870 runs in a single day a new total runs record three more than what Surrey and Glamorgan hadaccomplished in 2002 during their Friends Provident Trophy matchIntrestingly the SurreyGlamorgan game was the one in which Surreys Ali Brown hit the world record oneday score of268THE INDIAN CONNECTThe pair broke a 17yearold record held by Team Indias Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid The LumbWessels 342runstand saw them break Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravids record 318run stand against Sri Lanka at Taunton during the1999 World Cup which was till now the best oneday partnership record in EnglandALSO READThey run the show Top 5 partnerships by batsmen in ODI historyGanguly and Dravid during their record stand vs Sri Lanka at Taunton on May 26 1999The second India connection is the 19yearold substitute fielder Anuj Dal The Indianorigin cricketer took thecrucial catch that ended Kleinveldts incredible inningsand effectvely ensured his teams victory19yearold Dal who was playing for Nottinghamshires Second XI also caught Graeme White for 40 At the time Northamptonshire needed 21 from the final two oversThe other link is Indianorigin cricketer Samit Patel The Nottinghamshireallrounder took three vital catches claimed the wicket of White at the important juncture and as a batsman had also scored 29 runs off 18 ballsSOME OTHER RECORDS REWRITTENWessels and Lumbs 342run partnership means they now hold the record for highest partnership for Nottinghamshire Theprevious partnership record for Notts was 217 also held by Lumb with Alex Hales against Middlesex at Lords in2014Lumbs 184 is also a county record the highest oneday cricket score bettering the unbeaten 167 made by NottsPaul Johnson in 1993 against KentLumbs 184 also surpassed Ian Bothams 175 not out for Somerset as the highest score in a List A game againstNorthantsTheir stand was the biggest in a oneday game between two firstclass counties since Tim Curtis and Tom Moody put onan unbroken 309 for Worcestershires third wicket against Surrey at The Oval in the 1994 Natwest Trophy semifinalSO NEAR YET SO FARWhen Wessels went for 148 the duo fell just 31 runs short of breaking the alltime best oneday partnership incricket of 372 between West Indies Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels for the second wicket against Zimbabwe at Canberrain the 2015 World Cup in February last yearThe duo also fell just short of the highestever oneday firstwicket stand an unbroken 367 set in a South Africanoneday game by Morne van Wyk and Cameron Delport for Dolphins against Knights in Bloemfontein in October 2014The 870 runs scored in the English county match meant they were just two runs short of the world record which wasset in the South Africa vs Australia ODI match at Johannesburg on March 12 2006 The tie saw 872 runs being scoredwith the Proteas chasing 435 to win managing 438 with a ball to spare thanks mainly to Herschelle Gibbs who made an astounding 175 off 111 balls