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Pranav Dhanawade: The Indian boy who scored a record 1,009 runs
Dhanawade had taken a two-year-break from cricket due to "some issues". There was a time when his mother Mohini would reprimand him for not focusing on studies.
His father had worked overtime to ensure his son got a cricket kit. On Monday, they stood beside him, beaming with pride, with tears of joy, accepting the accolades. They also learnt that the Maharashtra government had decided to fund their son's studies and sports.
Dhanawade's innings propelled him to the top of the trends on Twitter in India, where reactions to his innings ranged from beröm to chock and disbelief. Sachin Tendulkar congratulated him - "You need to scale new peaks!," he tweeted.
But the biggest - and measured - accolade possibly came from Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni.
"To score like that anywhere in the world, in those conditions, is very difficult. Not to forget the age of the individual," Dhoni
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Wonderkid Pranav Dhanawade, who once scored 1,009* in an innings, reveals fascinating story involving Sachin Tendulkar
Jun 05, 2021 12:46 PM IST
In 2016, Pranav Dhanawade became the first person in the history of this game to score more than 1,000 runs in a single innings.
Do you remember reading about a Mumbai schoolboy who officially became the first person in the history of this game to score more than 1,000 runs in a single innings in 2016? If you are thinking of Pranav Dhanawade, you are absolutely right. He's in the news once again, this time because of a story involving him and India's most prolific run-scorer, Sachin Tendulkar.
Dhanawade became a sensation after playing an unbeaten knock of 1,009 from 323 balls, for K. C. Gandhi High School of the Kalyan administrative district. The youngster broke the 116-year-old record of 628 not out, set by the English schoolboy A. E. J. Collins in 1899.
ALSO READ| Team India captain Virat Kohli shares scenic picture o • Pranav Dhanawade, hails from Kalyan, Maharashtra. His father is an auto rickshaw driver. In 2016, Pranav Dhanawade created the record for the highest individual score in any form of cricket, bettering AEJ Collins' 628 not out for Clark's House against North Town in 1899 in the UK Pranav Dhanawade, the son of a Mumbai rickshaw driver, scored 1,009 not out, with his side, KC Gandhi School, declaring on 1,465 for three in 2016 Dhanawade (then age 15), playing for KC Gandhi Higher Secondary School, reached the gigantic score in just 323 deliveries with a jaw-dropping strike rate of 312.38 in the
Pranav Dhanawade: The auto rickshaw driver's son who shot to fame!
Four years ago in 2016, Mumbai teen Pranav Dhanawade became an instant celebrity after scripting cricketing history by smashing a world record 1009 runs not out in an inter-school tournament. We look at his journey in cricket since then. (All pics/ mid-day)
Updated on : 05 January,2019 01:30 PM IST