Derbyshire's 22 years old opener Chesney Hughes scored 270 not out but lost. This the highest score to result in defeat as he carried his bat for 270 not out in that County Championship match against Yorkshire but his side st...ill ended up losing by an innings. Only eight higher scores have been made in a defeat - and the one at the top of the list was also in a Derbyshire match, although they actually won that one: Percy Perrin made 343 not out for Essex in Chesterfield in 1904, but Derbyshire won by nine wickets after Essex were all out for 97 in their second innings. And I discovered from Andrew Samson's online statistical blog that only one higher individual score than Hughes' has been made in an innings defeat: Vijay Hazare's 309 for the Rest against Hindus in Bombay in 1943-44 (Hazare shared a stand of 300 in a follow on with his brother Vivek, whose contribution was 21).
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