Kimber also made the highest score before lunch and hit the most sixes in a County Championship innings
England seamer Ollie Robinson claimed an unwanted record on day four of the County Championship match between Sussex and Leicestershire at Hove as Louis Kimber smashed 43 runs in a single over.
Cricket Archive notes is the most expensive over in the competition's history, surpassing the 38 runs conceded by Shoaib Bashir to Dan Lawrence earlier this week. Bashir briefly shared the record with former England quick Alex Tudor, who was taken down by Andrew Flintoff in 1998.
LOUIS KIMBER HAS TAKEN 43 OFF AN OVER pic.twitter.com/kQ4cLUhKN9
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Bowling to Kimber, who came in at No.8, Robinson started with a short ball which was smashed over square leg for six, and the over was finished with the batter taking a single to notch the 43rd run.
Between those two deliveries, Robinson bowled two no balls, was hit for six fours, and was belted for a huge six backward of square leg.
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Robinson had taken one wicket in the innings prior to the brutal over (Getty Images)
On what should have been the fifth delivery of the over, Kimber reached his century from just 62 balls, blasting the Sussex man through the covers for four.
Previously, Sir Garfield Sobers and Ravi Shastri had completed 36-run overs in first-class cricket.
The previous highest-scoring over in a Leicestershire shirt belonged to Clive Inman, when he took Nottinghamshire bowler Norman Hill for 32 in 1965.
Kimber's feat does not come relatively close to the highest-scoring first-class over of all time, though, which stands at 77 runs, posted by Bert Vance in 1990, for New Zealand state side Wellington.
Kimber also made the second-highest score in the morning session of a first-class game, just six runs behind Russell Endean, who struck an unbeaten 197 on the first morning of a Currie Cup match in South Africa for Transvaal in 1954. It is, unsurprisingly, the most runs scored in the morning session of a County Championship game and the most sixes hit in a County Championship innings.
He was last man out, for 243 in 127 balls, as Leicestershire fell 18 runs short of chasing down 464.
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