Chris Douglas, the Somerset batsman, has described his record-breaking Cup Match exploits with Terryn Fray as “incredible”.

The Somerset pair produced a 153-run opening stand which eclipsed the previous mark of 143 Wendell Smith and Arnold Manders made for St George’s in the West End in 1991.

“To get the record with my partner for the past 11 or 12 years means a lot because I know how much he wants it,” Douglas said. “I didn’t even realise we had the record but my partner is a real statistician and he knows all the records.”

Fray, the Somerset vice-captain, said: “I already knew what the numbers were going into the match and we celebrated it [the record] as soon as we got it so it means a lot.

“It was something we guys talked about the night before the match started. We talked about records and me, in particular, because I love stats and not just Bermuda stats but worldwide stats.”

Fray’s passion for stats also caught Jeff Richardson, the Somerset coach, by surprise.

“The night before the match it was his introduction to the team as the new vice-captain and one of the requirements is a speech and he mentioned how we are going to go about [winning the match],” Richardson said. “He is very steep on stats and I didn’t realise that about him.”

The record partnership laid the foundation for Somerset’s first innings score of 378 for nine declared and an emphatic innings and 34-run victory — the club’s biggest over St George’s in 70 years.

“The partnership put us in a position for the ‘two to one’, which was something incredible,” Douglas said.

“The groundstaff prepared a very good wicket to bat on and our job as openers is to pave the road for the rest of the batsmen and they drove on it.

“The ball wasn’t really doing much and most of the bowlers, the four seamers, bowled straight up and down.

“The only bowler who moved the ball was spinner Allan [Douglas].”

The only blemish to Douglas and Fray’s record-breaking exploits was their failure to capitalise on a century, which seemed there for the taking.

“Personal milestone are not something that I look for and to be honest that’s probably a flaw in my game,” Douglas said. “But I should have got a hundred because it was an easy day to follow on from the platform that I set. I got 74 untroubled and then gave away my wicket.”

Fray, who was dismissed for 91 by a rising delivery from Bailey’s Bay team-mate Zeko Burgess that barely grazed the bail, said: “It is a bit disappointing and it would have been nice to get my second hundred in Cup Match.

“But for me it’s all about how I feel and for myself that was probably the best I have batted in a very long time.”