{"id":690083,"date":"2026-07-13T22:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690083\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:41:12","slug":"willingdon-cricketer-hits-411-runs-in-40-over-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690083\/","title":{"rendered":"Willingdon cricketer hits 411 runs in 40-over match"},"content":{"rendered":"

An East Sussex cricketer who scored a quadruple century in a single 40-over innings says the achievement was the “best sporting day of my life”.<\/p>\n

Ryan Welch, playing for Willingdon Cricket Club, scored 411 runs against Crowborough Cricket Club on Saturday, a feat thought to be a UK limited-overs record.<\/p>\n

Welch, 26, said hitting the figure had been “absolutely mental”, and that he had barely been able to process the feat since returning to work on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

He said: “I could not score another run for the rest of my life now and I would not care.”<\/p>\n

Welch added: “I normally bat later in the innings and tend to play big shots, but never really get the chance to score that big, and from the first shot I felt I was on to a winner.<\/p>\n

“It was a perfect, perfect day for batting, and the best sporting day of my life.”<\/p>\n

Willingdon scored a total of 571-1, and won the match by 438 runs.<\/p>\n

Welch’s innings, including 51 fours and 22 sixes, marks an English record for a limited overs game, according to the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians,, external<\/a> beating the previous record of 408 scored in Hinckley in Leicestershire in 1994.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack also said it was not aware of a higher score in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An East Sussex cricketer who scored a quadruple century in a single 40-over innings says the achievement was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}