14-Year old Mumbai Boy Scores 1,045* in Local Cricket Match

There are very few places in India who had given as many top-class batsmen to the nation as Mumbai.

Vijay Merchant, Ajit Wadekar, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma – the list just goes on. Well, it seems Mumbai is all set to give India another gem of a batsman in the form of Tanishq Gavate, the 14-year old who stormed into the limelight after smashing an unbeaten 1,045 not out in a local cricket tournament in Navi Mumbai.

According to The Times of India, the news got confirmed by the teenager’s coach Manish on Tuesday (January 30). The coach stated that Gavate played this knock over two days – on Monday and Tuesday – in the semi-final of the tournament at the Yashwantrao Chavan English Medium School ground in Koparkhairne.

As per the coach, Gavate played on a ground which has a leg-side boundary of 60-65 yards, while the off-side boundary was 50 yards. The mammoth knock was studded with 149 boundaries and 67 sixes.

The coach went on to say that Gavate played the knock for the Yashwantrao Chavan team, which has been formed by the organisers, against the Yashwantrao Chavan English Medium School. The organisers are Manish himself and the Yashwantrao Chavan English Medium School.

However, the tournament, named Navi Mumbai Shield – 14 has not been recognised by the Mumbai Cricket Association.

Meanwhile, this is not the first time any Mumbai youngster has a shot to fame for playing a mammoth knock. In 2016,  Pranav Dhanawade 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 against Arya Gurukul School.

Three years before Dhanawade’s knock, India’s current U-19 skipper, Prithvi Shaw had hogged the limelight after smashing 546 in a Harris Shield elite division match.