Pranav Dhanawade is an Indian cricketer from Kalyan, Maharashtra. Batting in one innings, stretching over 4 and 5 January 2016, he became the first person to score more than 1,000 runs in one innings in an officially recognised match. He scored 1,009 not out, from 323 balls, for K. C. Gandhi High School of the Kalyanadministrative district. Dhanawade broke the 116-year-old record of 628 not out, set by the English schoolboy A. E. J. Collins in 1899. On day two of their first innings, with only 5 of 11 players having batted, the K. C. Gandhi team declared on 1,465/3, also a world record. The match was one sided, with the opposition, Arya Gurukul School, only scoring 31 runs in their first innings and 52 in their second.
Personal life
He is the son of Prashant Dhanawade who works as an auto rickshaw driver.
Record innings
The two-day cricket match between K. C. Gandhi High School and Arya Gurukul School was part of the Bhandari Cup, an under-16 inter-school tournament recognised by the Mumbai Cricket Association. Dhanawade scored 1,009 runs in an innings that lasted 6 hours and 36 minutes, and included 59 sixes and 129 fours at a strike-rate of 308.56. The 15-year-old school student broke a 116-year-old cricketing record, beating the previous 'highest individual score' by A. E. J. Collins. Collins had held the record since 1899, when he scored 628 runs for Clarke House against North Town House at Clifton College, England. Arya Gurukul scored 31 runs in their first innings, bowled out after facing just 20 overs. In reply K. C. Gandhi made 546 runs before losing their first wicket and by the end of the day were 956 for one, a lead of 925. Dhanawade, who opened the batting, had already broken the previous world record by scoring 652 of those runs. The next day Dhanawade continued batting, reaching 1,000 runs at about 3 o'clock that afternoon. KC Gandhi declared their innings at 1,465 for three, then dismissed Arya Gurukul a second time for 52 runs to win the match by an innings and 1,382 runs. Yogesh Jagtap, the coach of Arya Gurukul, revealed after the match that they had struggled to field a team due to exams, and had entered the tournament only so they would not be denied future entry. He estimated there were 21 dropped catches and three missed stumpings during the single K. C. Gandhi innings. He also said some of the children in Arya Gurukul had only ever played with a tennis ball before and were scared of the leather ball. Many were under 12 and much of the boundary was only from the wicket. Despite the scoreline, Jagtap thought the match was a positive experience for his team and praised Dhanawade's shot selection during his innings. K.C. Gandhi's coach was criticised by reporter Shraishth Jain for not retiring any batsmen or declaring the innings earlier. The accomplishment has led to further suggestions of compulsory retirements for batsmen upon reaching a certain score.
