Pranav at the end of Monday’s play.
Records are meant to be broken but Pranav Dhanawade, a 15-year-old Mumbai lad from the suburb of Kalyan has not only broken some but almost crushed them.
After setting the record for highest individual score in all cricket on Monday, he reached up another milestone and became the first person to score 1000 runs in any form of cricket. Pranav’s 1000 runs came off 317 balls. He eventually finished on 1009 not out after his team declared at 1465/2. His innings lasted 323 balls along with 129 fours and 59 sixes. His innings included 129 boundaries and 59 sixes.
Sachin is my batting idol, I am a wicketkeeper so my wicketkeeping idol is Australia’s Brad Haddin-Pranav Dhanawade pic.twitter.com/18MpmsJGeL
— ANI (@ANI_news) January 5, 2016
Pranav was unbeaten 652 runs off 199 balls at stumps on Monday. Pranav, brought up the knock in just 199 balls in the Bhandari Trophy, the equivalent of Harris Shield for Mumbai suburbs, on Monday. Sachin Tendulkar also congratulated Pranav for his historic innings.
Congrats #PranavDhanawade on being the first ever to score 1000 runs in an innings. Well done and work hard. You need to scale new peaks!
— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) January 5, 2016
A 10th grade student in KC Gandhi English High School, Kalyan, Pranav broke all batting world records in minor cricket during an under-16 inter-school event organised by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA).
On Monday, he broke the highest individual score in an innings record held by an English cricketer AEJ Collins of 628* for Clark’s House against North Town set in 1899. He also overhauled Prithvi Shaw’s record score of 546 by any Indian set in 2013-14.
The opener’s sextuple hundred saw his team reach a mammoth total of 956 for the loss of just one wicket at stumps on Monday in reply to Arya Gurukul’s first innings score of 31 all out in 20 overs. Interestingly, it all happened on day one of the two-day game. The other three digit scorers for KC Gandhi school were Akash Singh (173) and Siddhesh Patil (100).
Adding cherry to the cake, Pranav’s feat was witnessed by his father who is an auto-rickshaw driver and headed to the ground to see him play when he was informed of his son’s batting mayhem.
Pranav has been playing cricket since he was five under the tutelage of coach Mobin Sheikh. Pranav also participated in the Mumbai selection trials tournaments and travelled, with his teammates, all the way from Kalyan to Churchgate for the matches.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra government has said that it will bear coaching and education expenses of Dhanawade.