Sam Northeast, Glamorgan and Leicestershire: All the numbers behind the Grace Road records

On a day for cricket historians, The Cricketer looks at the key statistics to emerge from Leicestershire and Glamorgan's LV= Insurance County Championship clash

Sam Northeast and Glamorgan produced a remarkable performance to smash a series of records across their four-day LV= Insurance County Championship clash against Leicestershire at Grace Road.

Here are the key numbers from the most incredible of performances.

410* - Sam Northeast hit the ninth highest individual first-class score in history. It is the third best in the County Championship, the best in 127 years in the competition, the highest by a Glamorgan player in their 134-year history and the first quadruple ton for 19 years.

On the fourth morning, he surpassed Steve James' 309 not out against Sussex in 2000. Only Archie Maclaren (424) and Brian Lara (501) not out are above him.

48 - The most boundaries by a Glamorgan batter in a single innings.

^{Brian Lara's 501 remains first-class cricket's highest score (Ben Radford/Getty Images)}

96 - Northeast's score when he edged off Leicestershire captain Callum Parkinson, which flew through the desperate Colin Ackermann at slip.

40.15 - Northeast's new career FC average. Indeed, he had never passed 200 before this innings, which began on Thursday afternoon (July 21).

795 for 5d - Glamorgan's highest innings score, beating the 718 for 3 declared they made against Sussex in the same game as James' triple century at Colwyn Bay 22 years ago. The highest in the Championship remains Yorshire's 887 against Warwickshire in 1896. It was the third time the south Wales club had surpassed the 700 mark.

It was also the highest score made against Leicestershire, surpassing the 761 for 6d by Essex in 1990 when Graham Gooch and Paul Prichard both struck double centuries.

Chris Cooke was a handy partner for Northeast (Stu Forster/Getty Images)

461 - Northeast and Chris Cook put on the second-highest sixth-wicket partnership in first-class history and the highest in the County Championship. George Headley and Clarence Passailaigue for Jamaica in 1932 hold the all-time sixth-wicket record.

Glamorgan have never previously had a higher partnership for any wicket in their history. Adrian Dale and Viv Richards's 425* against Middlesex in 1993 was the previous watermark.

191* - Cooke's ninth first-class century was 14 short of the highest of his 112-game career made against Surrey in September 2021.

0 - The amount of fun Glamorgan were willing to have are declaring at lunch on day four.

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