Mumbai schoolboy becomes first player to score 1,000 runs in any form of cricket
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Pranav Dhanawade, a 15-year-old schoolboy from Mumbai is living his dream today. The teenager made history by becoming the first player to score 1000 runs in any form of cricket.
As his team declared its innings, Dhananwade remained unbeaten on 1009, hitting 129 boundaries and 59 sixes during his magnificent knock. He had already broken the world record fo the highest individual cricket score on Monday, when he scored 652, surpassing English cricketer AEJ Collins' score of 628 not out in 1899.
Dhananwade's epic knock came during a match at the Bhandari Cup, an under-16 inter-school event organised by the Mumbai Cricket Association.
Mumbai teenager Pranav Dhanawade has scored 1000 runs off 323 balls with 59 sixes and 127 fours pic.twitter.com/Ht0uzhEKCX
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) January 5, 2016
Pranav Dhanawade....
Runs - 1009*
Balls - 323
Mins - 395
S/R - 312.38
Sixes - 59
Fours - 129
His school KC Gandhi HS declared @ 1465
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) January 5, 2016
A class 10 student of the KC Gandhi High School in the suburb of Kalyan, Dhananwade has been playing cricket since he was five. The son of an auto rickshaw driver, he has faced financial difficulties in training for cricket.
"Cricket equipment costs a lot of money. I have tried to find sponsors for my son but on one occasion I was told that he first needs to make a name for himself," his father Prashant toldreporters. These troubles may be over for now as the Maharashtra state government has announced that it will sponsor Dhananwade's cricket coaching.
For many cricket fans in India, the knock recalled memories of the 664-run partnership between cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli during an inter-school tournament in February 1988.
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