On this day in 2016- Pranav Dhanavade scales a mountain of thousand runs
There’s an adhered cliché in the Bombay School of Batting which propounds that a minimum price a batsman should possess on his wicket should be a three-figure mark. But this stereotypical phenomenon was all set to become diminutive when a 15-year-old boy named Pranav Dhanavade scored a mind-boggling 1009* runs on this day back in 2016.
The monumental score was contrived when Pranav was representing his school KC Gandhi against Arya Gurukul School in an under-16 inter-school tournament (Bhandari Cup) well recognized by the Mumbai Cricket Association. The match was a two-day affair held in Kalyan’s (suburbs of Mumbai) Wayle Maidan which can be termed as one of the most asymmetrical grounds to bowl on.
#CelebratingIndia 15 year old Mumbai boy, Pranav Dhanavade scores 1009* off 323 balls to set a new world record! pic.twitter.com/VhHJXPKzmb
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While batting first, Arya Gurukal’s first innings score was mere 31 runs where the entire team got tumbled around the 20 overs mark. In response to a fun-sized first innings score of 31, KC Gandhi’s opening batters (Aakash Singh and Pranav Dhanavade) moulded a mammoth partnership of 546 runs. By the end of the first day’s play, KC Gandhi had secured a lead of 925 runs including Dhanavade’s 652*.
The next day, it was during the afternoon time (around 3 pm) when Pranav reached four-figure mark (1000 runs) amassing a run tally of 1009*. KC Gandhi, after declaring for a score of 1465-3, won the match by an innings and 1,382 runs.
Pranav’s score of 1009* came off 327 balls at a staggering strike rate of 308.56. His boundary count computed 129 fours and 59 sixes. All in all, Pranav, in order to reach this gobsmacking record, had to bat for more than six hours and scored 70 % of his team’s total.
The realm of four figures (1009*) also broke a 116-year old record of Clarke House who had scored 628 against North Town House at Clifton College, England back in 1899.
It is estimated that the opposition had dropped 21 catches and missed three stumpings during KC Gandhi’s innings. As per the reports, it is also believed that the match was played in complete adversity as the players from the Aryan Gurukul’s team were from an under-12 age group who had hardly played with the leather ball. Despite all the odds, Pranav is the only cricketer at present who has navigated the nervous 990s.
