Beaumont’s mammoth innings lasted 331 balls, featuring 27 fours, as she become just the eighth player to score a double hundred in women’s cricket.
But her efforts were very nearly derailed by the cramp in her hand.
“If I have batted for a long time it goes like an actual claw,” said Beaumont.
“I have to literally straighten out my fingers, drink some disgusting pickle juice and try and go again. Because once it starts it happens every couple of overs for the rest of the day.”
However, Beaumont has endured an even worse experience with pickle juice after drinking the “wrong” type in a match last year.
“There’s two different types. One you swallow, the other is swill around and spit out,” she added.
“It started at a match last year so Katherine Sciver-Brunt brings it out to the middle, I didn’t know it was the one you are meant to spit out.
“So I have swilled it around and swallowed it and she was like ‘what are you doing?’
“It tasted like acid. It was horrible.”