Mumbai teenager Prithivi Shaw sets national record

Mumbai teenager Prithvi Shaw created a national record by hitting 546 playing for Rizvi Springfield against St Francis D’Assisi Borivali in an inter-school Harris Shield match. During his stay of 367 minutes at the wicket, Prithvi faced 330 balls and hit 85 boundaries and five sixes. With this, Prithvi has broken the earlier Mumbai schools cricket record of Armaan Jaffer who had amassed 498 in a Giles Shield semi-final in 2010-11. Armaan also held the Harris Shield record of 476 runs in the finals last year which has also been broken now. [caption id=“attachment_1243419” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Prithvi Shaw is another precocious teenage Mumbai batsman. PTI[/caption] Prithvi’s innings is now the highest by an Indian in any competitive match, well clear of D.R. Havewala’s 515 for the Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway Sports Club against St. Xavier’s College in 1933-34. D.R. Havewala, a left-hander, who subsequently played for India in an unofficial Test, hit 55 boundaries and 32 sixes during his marathon knock. His team, facing a total of 446, replied with 721 and won by an innings. The number of sixes he hit equalled the then world record. However, Havewala’s 55 boundaries were eclipsed in 1953-54 by S.V. Patkar, who in a schools match in Bombay hit 83 boundaries, believed to be a world record. Patkar remained unbeaten on 431. One more Indian player scored 500 in minor Indian cricket. C.L. Malhotra scored 502 not out for Mahendra College against Government College, Rupar, in Patiala in 1956-57. In his next two innings Malhotra made 360 and 144 so that he completed a thousand runs in three innings, a feat unparalleled at any level of cricket in the world. Shaw’s innings is the third highest in any competitive cricket match. Only AEJ Collins (628 not out in a competitive match in England in 1899) and CJ Eady (566 in Australia in 1901-02) have made higher scores than Prithvi.