Tom Banton Triple Century: County cricket is being played in England where 26-year-old explosive batsman Tom Banton, playing for Somerset, has created history by hitting a triple century against Worcestershire. Tom Banton has played a historic innings of 371 runs in 403 balls, with which he has broken the record of Australia's great batsman Justin Langer.

Justin Langer's 19-year-old record broken

Yes, this is what has happened. Tom Banton faced 403 balls for Somerset and scored 371 runs with the help of 56 fours and 2 sixes, after which he has now become the player to play the biggest innings in first class cricket for Somerset. He has broken the record of Justin Langer, who scored 343 runs against Surrey while playing for Somerset 19 years ago, in 2006.

This happened for the first time in 150 years of history

Tom Banton has become the first player in the 150-year history of Somerset to score more than 350 runs in an innings for the team. Apart from him, no other batsman has done this feat. In this list, Justin Langer (342 runs) is second and Vivian Richards (322 runs) is third.

Record-breaking partnership between Tom Banton and James Rev

In this match, Tom Banton along with James Rev (152 runs) also made a partnership of 371 runs for the 5th wicket, which is the biggest partnership between two batsmen in the history of Somerset club. In doing so, he broke the record of the 320-run partnership between John Francis and Ian Blackwell in 2005.

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Somerset scored 670 runs

If we talk about this match, then Somerset won the toss and chose to bowl first, after which Worcestershire batted for 45.3 overs in their first innings and scored 154 runs before being all out. In response, on the basis of the innings of Tom Banton (371 runs) and James Rave (152 runs), the Somerset team put 670 runs on the scoreboard for the loss of 7 wickets in 149.4 overs. After this, now Worcestershire has come out to bat in their second innings and till the time of writing the news, they have been able to score only 58 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in 24 overs.

Tom Banton remained unsold in IPL

Let us tell you that this explosive batsman of England remained unsold at his base price of 2 crores in the mega auction of IPL 2025. If we talk about Banton's performance in IPL, he was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders in the year 2020 at a base price of 1 crore, after which he scored only 18 runs in 2 matches in the season.

Even though Banton could not do anything amazing in IPL, he has the ability to become one of the best T20 batsmen in the world. Let us tell you that Banton has played 164 T20 matches in which he has scored 4232 runs, hitting 4 centuries and 24 half-centuries.