Watch: D'Arcy Short hits 257 runs off 148 balls, blasts 23 sixes in JLT One-Day Cup

D'Arcy Short scored the third-highest score in one-day cricket and the highest ever by an Australian against Queensland at Hurstville Oval on Friday in the JLT One-Day Cup.

D'Arcy Short, playing for Western Australia, became just the fourth Australian man to score a double century in one-day cricket, hammering a record total of 257 runs off 148 balls.

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Ummm ... can we have our ball back please? D'Arcy Short into the 90s at Hurstville.

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What a way to bring up your second one-day hundred! #JLTCup pic.twitter.com/xgraRLiG6S

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BANG! You don't want to miss this! D'Arcy Short is racing towards 150 and there's still 15 overs to go!

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That's 150 up for D'Arcy Short and he's nowhere near finished yet!

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BANG! D'Arcy Short is powering towards a double hundred at Hurstville Oval! Tune in NOW

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He's STILL going! You don't want to miss this!

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That's 250! Unbelievable batting from D'Arcy Short!

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D'Arcy Short brought up his hundred from just 83 balls and reached his double century from just 128 deliveries. Short blasted 23 sixes during his innings. He is only the second man to hit 23 sixes in one-day cricket joining Colin Munro of New Zealand.

Short joined Ben Dunk, Phillip Hughes and Travis Head in scoring a one-day double ton on Australian soil and beat Dunk's mark of 229 not out as the highest score by an Australian crickter in one-day cricket.

Here are highest List A scores in one-day cricket

268: Alistair Brown, Surrey v Glamorgan, The Oval, 2002

264: Rohit Sharma, India v Sri Lanka, Kolkata, 2014

257: D’Arcy Short, WA v Queensland, Hurstville, 2018

248: Shikhar Dhawan, India A v SA A, Pretoria, 2013

237*: Martin Guptill, New Zealand v West Indies, Wellington, 2015