Tuesday 5 January 2016 16:31, UK
A Mumbai schoolboy has become the first cricketer to score 1000 runs in an innings.
Pranav Dhanawade, 15, scored 1009 not out in KC Ghandi School's total of 1465-3 against Arya Gurukul during the HT Bhandari Cup inter-school cricket tournament.
Dhanawade's runs came off just 323 balls - he smashed 59 sixes and 129 fours, making the most of the short 30-yard boundary on one side of the ground.
Arya Gurukul, KC Ghandi's hapless opponents, did not fare quite so well with the bat. Before Dhanawade's heroics, they had been bowled out for 31. They did a little better in their second innings, mustering 52. The match result - KC Ghandi won by an innings and 1,382 runs.
Dhanawade scored 652 of his runs on the first day of the game on Monday, breaking the previous best score of 628 not out by Arthur Collins, during a junior house match in June, 1899 in England.
And - overcoming the nervous 990s - he raced to four figures on Tuesday.
Historical scorecards show that Collins - born in India himself - scored 628 of Clark's House's 836 all out against North Town at Clifton College, where a plaque remains to this day commemorating the innings.
Congrats Pranav Dhanawade... well done and work hard. You need to scale new peaks!
Dhanawade's achievement was immediately saluted by India legend Sachin Tendulkar, who tweeted: "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!"
Dhanwade told the Times of India: "I'm very happy," adding that thoughts of reaching four figures only entered his mind when he passed 400.
"That's when I thought it was possible," he said.
His proud father Prashan, an auto-rickshaw driver, said: "I actually got to watch him only after he had crossed 300.
"A father of one of his friends called me and asked, 'you are not at the ground?'. So I immediately rushed to the venue. It's obviously a very proud day. It's a reward for 11 years of his hard work."
KC Ghandi's total of 1465 is the highest team score on record, according to the Times of India, beating the 1007 Victoria amassed against New South Wales in 1926. There were two other centurions in the KC Ghandi innings, Aakash Singh chipping in with 173, and Siddhesh Patil a modest 137.
The pick of the Arya Gurukul bowlers was Ayush Dubey who took two wickets - though he conceded 352 runs in doing so. Harshal Jadhav the other wicket-taker - he returned the more economical figures of 1-281.
Mumbai has a tradition of big scores in school cricket - Tendulkar first came to prominence with a 326 not out in 1988.
