A 15-year-old batsman from Mumbai has broken 116-year-old record by scoring an unbelievable number of runs in an Under-16 inter-school cricket tournament organised by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA).
Pranav Dhanawade, playing for Smt. K C Gandhi School, Kalyan, scored an unbeaten 652 runs from just 199 balls, with the help of 78 fours and 30 sixes, as he registered his name in the record books.
Dhanawade made the staggering record against Kalyan’s Arya Gurukul School in the H T Bhandari Cup, one of the several inter-school tournaments organised by the MCA.
The prodigal talent helped his team reach 956 runs for the loss of just one wicket at the end of the first day. While Dhanawade was not out on 652, number three batsman Siddhesh Patil was unbeaten on 100. Aakash Singh, the only batsman to have been dismissed, had scored 173 runs.
Dhanawade’s epic knock, which included 72 fours and 28 sixes, helped him take over the mantle of ‘highest individual score’ (including minor cricket) from AEJ Collins, who had held the record since 1899 when he struck an unbeaten 628 for Clark House against North Town House in UK.
In the course of his multiple record-breaking feat, Pranav also surpassed Prithvi Shaw’s marathon 546 scored in 2014 in a Harris Shield match, an innings that had previously been the highest individual score in any form of cricket in India.
The current bunch of young talent from Mumbai also includes the likes of Arman Jaffer and Sarfaraz Khan. While Sarfaraz had scored 439 in 2009, Jaffer posted 498 in 2010 to break the record, only to be surpassed by Shaw, who, in turn, has now been overtaken by Dhanawade.
Batting legend and cricket great Sachin Tendulkar also comes from the same Mumbai stable and his epic partnership of 664 runs with fellow Mumbaikar Vinod Kambli still manages to be the talk of the town.
