Mumbai boy scores 1,009 in a cricket tournament, sets a world record

Pranav Dhanawade is lifted up after he created a world record by scoring 1,009 runs in an Under-16 MCA cricket match. Rajesh Jadhav

Mumbai schoolboy cricketer made history, setting a world record by becoming the first batsman ever to notch up a four-figure score, smashing an unbeaten knock of 1,009 in an inter-school tournament at Kalyan, on the outskirts of the metropolis, Tuesday.

The 15-year-old, playing for K.C. Gandhi Higher Secondary School, reached the gigantic score in just 323 deliveries with a jaw-dropping strike rate of 312.38 in the game against Arya Gurukul in the Bhandari Cup inter-school tournament organised by the Mumbai Cricket Association. In his awe-inspiring innings, that lasted 395 minutes, he smashed a whopping 129 fours and 59 sixes.

The epic knock ended when his school declared at 1465 for three at stumps on the second day, which is also a world record. His school went past Victoria’s 1107 against New South Wales made way back in 1926. Pranav, who studies in Class 10 and is the only son of an autorickshaw driver, holds the record for the highest individual sco-re in any form of cricket.