Virag Mare (Longest net session)
The 24-year old managed to register his name in the Guinness Book of World Records on 24th December 2015. The cricketer holds the record for the longest individual net-session in the history of cricket.
He batted for three days and two nights to break the previous record. Playing at the Mahalaxmi Lawns in Karve Nagar, Mare started his net session on December 22 and faced 2,447 overs, 14,682 balls in exactly 50 hours, five minutes and 51 seconds.
Further, he broke the previous record of Dave Newman and Richard Wells who batted for 48 hours.
Previously, Virag Mare used to run a Vada Pav stall for his survival, however, shifted from Mumbai to Pune in an attempt to sustain his cricket career.
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