Mark Ramprakash went past the monumental milestone of scoring over 30,000 first class runs in Surrey’s LV County Championship match against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl.

Surrey’s incredible number three went into today’s match requiring just 45 runs to take himself past the landmark. He did so in his typical style, exactly half an hour after the lunch break with a beautiful back foot cut off Shaun Udal, which went through backward point for four.

Before this match, Ramprakash had scored 29,955 runs in 398 matches at an average of 52.18 runs per innings. However his record for Surrey is even more remarkable. In just 97 matches, he has scored 40 centuries and averages 73.52, with over 10,000 runs to his name.

Last year the Surrey star finished with an incredible 2278 runs - over 400 runs more than his nearest rival, HD Ackerman of Leicestershire. He also had five scores of 150 or more in successive matches, something that has never been matched in first-class cricket.

In addition to all of this, Ramprakash became just the fifth player in an English first-class season to finish with an average of over 100. Only the great Sir Don Bradman (1938), Geoff Boycott (who did it twice in 1971 and 1979), Graham Gooch (1990) and Damien Martyn (2001) have reached this significant milestone before him.

Before today’s match, Ramprkash had scored 1322 runs at an average of 77.76.

Congratulations Mark!!

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