Pranav Dhanawade, a Class 10 student from the KC Gandhi School, Kalyan amassed a record-breaking, unbeaten 652 runs in an inter-school game on Tuesday.
Batting at the top of the innings, the right-handed wicketkeeper-batsman plundered a hapless Arya Gurukul, Kalyan attack by smashing 70 fours and 30 sixes during his 199-ball innings at the Wayle Nagar ground in Kalyan in the Mumbai Cricket Association’s Thane district inter-school tournament for the HT Bhandari Shield.
A son of a rickshaw-driver, Dhanawade was far from being over the moon. “I hadn’t decided to go bang bang from the start. I just wanted to remain not out at the end of the day. I started playing strokes and am delighted that I could get so many runs,” Dhanawade told The Hindu after his school stockpiled 956 for one on the first day.
Dhanawade could well become the first batsman in competitive cricket to score 1,000 runs in an innings on Tuesday. But he doesn’t have the number in sight. “I just want to continue batting till lunch tomorrow,” he said.
The report was earlier published in The Hindu