After his second consecutive century in the current Ranji Trophy season, Rinku Singh is now the Uttar Pradesh batter with the most first-class hundreds. His career batting average increased to 61.33 over 55 games and 78 innings after his undefeated 118 off 186 balls, which included 11 fours and two sixes, brought his total to 11 first-class hundreds.
Rinku Singh entered the game with UP struggling at 33 for 3 and led his team to 202. In UP’s opening innings, Madhav Kaushik scored 45, the second-highest total and the only other score higher than 20. With figures of 5 for 86 for the opposition, Yash Kasvankar claimed five wickets.
In a victory over Bihar earlier in the Ranji Trophy season, Rinku Singh scored 112. His first-class career now stands at 3,987 runs at an average of 61.33, with a best score of 176, 11 hundreds, and 23 fifties. Prior to this game, his average was 59.52.
What UP record did Rinku Singh surpass?
Rinku Singh broke the record for most hundreds by an Uttar Pradesh batter in first-class cricket, surpassing Tanmay Shrivastava, who played for India’s 2008 Under-19 World Cup winning team. Rinku surpassed Shrivastava’s previous record for the state with his eleventh hundred.
Despite being primarily utilized as a T20 specialist at the international level, Rinku’s record highlights how consistently he has performed in the longer format. In 55 first-class games, he has amassed 11 hundreds and 23 fifties, demonstrating consistent performance over a substantial number of UP appearances.
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Based on at least 50 innings, Rinku’s first-class batting average of 61.33 ranks ninth in history. With an average of 95.14 from 338 innings, Donald Bradman is the record holder, followed by Vijay Merchant of India with 71.64 from 234 innings.
Ajay Sharma (averaging 67.46 from 166 innings), Shantanu Sugwekar (averaging 63.10 from 122 innings), and Sarfaraz Khan (averaging 62.92 from 95 innings) are among the other Indians in the top 10. With an average of 61.33, Rinku is ranked ninth on that list.
In the format, he has been especially good lately. Rinku has amassed 850 runs in 11 innings at an average of 94.44 over his last ten first-class games, including three fifties, four hundreds, and a best score of 176. In those innings, the scores were 118*, 112, 60, 20, 176, 165*, 68, 89, 6, 26, and 10.
