The NSW batsmen became only the second Australian player ever to record centuries in his first two matches in the English County Championship.

Hughes scored 139 for Middlesex in the first innings of their match against Leicestershire to follow up his 118 against Glamorgan in the previous match.

Hughes’ hundred against Glamorgan was also his first innings at Lords.

The only batsman to achieve this feat before Hughes was Andrew Symonds in 1995. Symonds scored 161 not out for Gloucestershire against Surrey followed by 102 not out for Gloucestershire against Somerset.

Hughes also joined the elite company of being one of seven Australian batsmen to score a hundred in each of his first two innings in England.

For the full story see the Southern Highland News, Monday, May 4

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