The carnage did not stop there. Gabriel Jaya remained unbeaten on 110 from only 49 balls, striking at 224.49, while Vincent Moyo chipped in with a rapid 78 off 39 deliveries.
Scorpions Cricket Club eventually finished on 822/4 in 50 overs at a mind-boggling run rate of 16.44 per over.
The pitch, which had looked extremely batting-friendly throughout the first innings, suddenly turned into a bowler’s paradise when Methane Lions began their chase. They were reduced to just 28/7, suffering a crushing 794-run defeat.
The highest recognised List A team total currently belongs to Bihar, who posted 574/6 against Arunachal Pradesh in Ranchi during the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi had smashed 190 off 84 balls in that match.
Before this unprecedented assault, only a handful of teams had crossed the 500-run mark in official 50-over cricket. Tamil Nadu piled up 506/2 against Arunachal Pradesh in 2022, while the England famously hammered 498/4 against the Netherlands in an ODI the same year.
Other mammoth totals such as Surrey’s 496/4, England’s 481/6 against Australia, and Mumbai’s 457/4 were once considered outrageous batting efforts.
Now, Scorpions Cricket Club have taken scoring into an entirely different dimension. Their run rate of 16.44 per over is nearly double the pace at which most record-breaking one-day totals are scored.