A fifteen-year-old Indian schoolboy has scored an incredible 1000 runs in a single innings, becoming the first cricketer at any level of the game to reach the milestone.
Batting against Arya Gurukul School in a Bhandari Cup match, Pranav Dhanawade reached 1000 runs in just 323 balls in an under-16 inter-school event organised by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) mainly for the benefit of suburban schools. The epic knock, which lasted 395 minutes, included a staggering 870 runs in boundaries – 59 sixes and 129 fours.
His KC Gandhi High School declared their innings at 1465/3 – also a world record – with Pranav remaining at unbeaten 1009, after the opposition side were bundled out for 31 on Monday. The previous record innings team total was Victoria’s 1107 against New South Wales made in Melbourne way back in 1926.
Brushing aside West Indian Brian Lara’s 501 for Warwickshire against Durham in 1994, which remains the highest individual score in first class cricket, in the course of his multiple record-breaking feat, Pranav then surpassed Prithvi Shaw’s marathon 546, scored two years ago in a Harris Shield tie, an innings that had previously been the highest individual score in any form of cricket in India.
The teenager then broke a 116-year-old cricketing record, amassing unbeaten 652 by close of play on Monday thus taking over the mantle of ‘highest individual score’ (including minor cricket) from A E J Collins. Collins had held the record since 1899 when he struck an unbeaten 628 for Clark House against North Town House at Clifton College here in England.
Arya Gurukul School could only hope to hold on to draw the match after the hullabaloo died down but failed dismally by adding only 52 runs to their first innings score before being bowled out for a second time, meaning their 22 individual innings amassed 83 runs.
