A man has finished a Guinness World Record attempt for the longest run-up prior to bowling a cricket ball.

Sam Bodoano, from Worplesdon, near Guildford in Surrey, ran 62 miles (100km), starting at Lord's Cricket Ground in north London on Saturday and finishing by bowling a game's opening ball to his father at Valley End Cricket Club in Woking on Sunday.

The run took 14 hours and raised almost £6,000 for cancer charity The Ruth Strauss Foundation.

"I'm very tired, I lost a lot of sleep, but it was all for an amazing cause," Bodoano said.

To make the record attempt official, the cricketer had to run while holding a cricket ball and dressed in full cricket whites and play a subsequent game after the initial bowl.

The official Guinness World Record was for the longest cricket bowling run-up as a male.

While Bodoano fulfilled the requirements, a Guinness World Records spokesperson said that his application would need to undergo the formal evidence review and verification process.

"That review can take about two weeks, depending on the evidence submitted, so at this stage we wouldn't be able to officially recognise the achievement," they said.

The current holder of the record for the longest bowling run-up (male) is Tom Dunn, who ran 15 miles (24km) from Bethnal Green, in east London, to Wandsworth Common, in south London, in August 2024.

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