Daryl Mitchell’s fine season in first class cricket means he has jumped up two places in the list of Worcestershire’s all-time record run-scorers.
The 33-year-old began the campaign needing 118 more runs to complete 10,000 first class runs for the County.
That milestone duly arrived during a century against Derbyshire at the 3aaa County Ground – the 25th player to complete that run tally for Worcestershire.
But Mitchell has now leapfrogged past former team-mate and County CEO David Leatherdale and Dick Howorth into 23rd spot.
His total of 758 runs so far this summer – including four centuries – means he has now amassed 10,640.
There is now a sizeable gap until number 22 on the list in Bob Broadbent with 12,800 but Mitchell still has another three years to run on his current contract – plus the final four matches of 2017.
Mitchell has, in fact, gone past 11,000 first class runs but 402 of that tally came for other teams.
He scored 339 for Mountaineers in Zimbabwe and 63 for the MCC against Yorkshire in the Champion County match in Abu Dhabi in 2015.
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The players to score 10,000 first class runs for the County are:
34490 D Kenyon
31149 GA Hick
22298 GM Turner
21753 JA Ormrod
20918 HHIH Gibbons
20750 FL Bowley
20712 RGA Headley
20155 TS Curtis
18495 FA Pearson
17953 MJ Horton
17431 PA Neale
16671 G Dews
15843 DW Richardson
15257 LF Outschoorn
15100 VS Solanki
15053 HK Foster
14825 EG Arnold
14120 BL D’Oliveira
13300 SJ Rhodes
13213 E Cooper
13160 TW Graveney
12800 RG Broadbent
10640 DKH MITCHELL
10538 R Howorth
10017 DA Leatherdale
