Tuesday, August 27th, 2019

WESSELS TOPS 300 RUN MARK FOR RAPIDS IN VITALITY BLAST

riki wessels has topped the 300 run mark for worcestershire rapids in his first summer of vitality blast cricket for the club.

the opener has become the 11th player to score 300 plus runs in a season of t20 cricket for the rapids.

he will be looking to add to that tally in tomorrow’s (wednesday’s) crunch meeting with his former county, notts outlaws, at New Road (4pm start).

daryl mitchell holds the record for the most runs in a campaign with 412 four years ago.

he is closely followed by the late phil hughes (402) – the only other worcestershire player to score more than 400 runs in a season.

mitchell, joe clarke, blast captain moeen ali, tom kohler-cadmore and ross whiteley reached 300 on two occasions.

whiteley brought up his 100th six in t20 cricket for the rapids in yesterday’s home encounter with lancashire lightning.

most t20 runs in a season

412 – daryl mitchell 2015

402 – phil hughes 2012

396 – joe clarke 2018

390 – callum ferguson 2018

385 – moeen ali 2010

381 – joe clarke 2017

372 – daryl mitchell 2014

365 – tom kohler-cadmore 2015

353 – brett d’oliveira 2016

334 – moeen ali 2018

332 – colin munro 2014

323 – tom kohler-cadmore 2016

315 – ross whiteley 2015

313 – ross whiteley 2018

307 — vikram solanki 2006

304 – riki wessels 2019