During Sunday's Norwich Union League match at Trent Bridge against the Surrey Lions Paul Johnson became the county's highest ever run scorer in the history of the NCL/Sunday League.

Beginning the day on 7,060 runs Johnson entered the record books when he reached 3, passing Derek Randall's previous highest aggregate of 7062.

Johnson made his county debut in the competition in June 1982 against Leicestershire at Trent Bridge and 19 seasons later, in his 257th game, he passed his former team-mate reaching the milestone in five games fewer then the former England player.

Randall's career had spanned the period 1971 to 1993 during which he played in 262 matches, finishing with an average of 33.46, a fraction higher than Johnson's current average of 33.14.

Johnson's record-breaking innings ended on 14 in a farcical run-out when both he and Kevin Pietersen found themselves at the same end.

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