A 15-year-old Mumbai boy has slammed an unbeaten 1,009 runs in a school cricket tournament to become the first batsman to score 1,000 runs in an innings in any form of cricket, officials and news reports said on Tuesday.
Pranav Dhanawade notched the massive score off 323 deliveries in more than six hours at the crease in a tournament organised by the Mumbai Cricket Association, the online edition of the Times of India reported.
Dhanawade's team declared at 3-1465, also a world record, after dismissing their opposition for 31, the Times added.
During his batting on Monday, Dhanawade, scored 652 runs, breaking a 117-year old record in minor cricket. He surpassed the previous highest score by AEJ Collins, a Briton, who scored 628 in a school match in 1899 when he was only 13 years.
Mumbai Cricket Association officials confirmed Dhanawade's score which included 59 sixes and 129 fours. But they said they had to see if the pitch in suburban Mumbai was in line with the regulations.
"His team declared at 1,465 runs. It's quite a special feat. Local politicians and officials are making a beeline here to meet him," Piyush Dhakras, one of the organisers said.
Dhanawade, son of an auto-rickshaw driver, could be selected for the under-16 Mumbai team and will be given financial assistance, senior MCA official PV Shetty said.
"He has got cramps after his mammoth innings," his father told the DNA daily on Monday.
"I don't know what to say but I feel proud that my son has achieved this feat."
"I have always been a big-hitter," Dhanawade said earlier on Monday.
"When I started I never thought about breaking the record. The focus was never that. I just played my natural game, which is to attack from the word go."
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