Robson is the one million man!
Sun 14 Jun 2015
Leicestershire County Cricket Club opener Angus Robson made history today by scoring the millionth first-class run in the club’s history.
At the start of the 2014 season, Leicestershire had moved to within 4,300 runs of moving into seven figures.
To mark the special moment, the club ran a competition where members and supporters had the chance to guess who would score the run and which game it would be scored in.
A lot of the entries that came in predicted that the run would be scored during the Surrey game last week and that was nearly proved right, as the team scored 367 of the required 370 runs.
Leicestershire’s leading LV=CC scorer Robson found himself in pole position as he took strike after skipper Mark Cosgrove won the toss and elected to bat at Emirates Old Trafford this afternoon.
However, there was also the chance that Niall O’Brien might record it after being promoted to be Robson’s fourth opening partner of the competition this term.
The wicket-keeper did not get the opportunity though as Robson collected three off the third ball of the opening over from Tom Bailey.
So for a brief moment in Leicestershire’s first-class history, the total runs stood at exactly one million runs scored.
Robson said: “It is a real honour to score the run and it is something that will always remain in the record books, so it is great to be part of the club’s history.
“A lot of very fine batsmen have contributed to that total over the years, and there will be many runs to come, so it is nice to have played my part in it.
“Thanks to everybody who supported the competition, it was good fun and created plenty of interest and debate from our members and fans, which was nice.”
Several people had a guess that Robson would score the 1,000,000th run but nobody got all of the criteria absolutely correct.
The earliest correct entry was submitted by Rosie Moulding, so congratulations to Rosie, who has won a hospitality suite with lunch and afternoon tea in the Charles Palmer Suite for four people for a day's play at an LV=CC game of her choice.
