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Mumbai
schoolboy scores 498, sets new record
Wednesday December 22, 2010 10:21:12 PM,
PTI
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Mumbai:
Mumbai, which has produced several record-breaking batsmen, found
yet another child prodigy when Armaan Jaffer, nephew of Ranji
Trophy captain and former India opener Wasim, scored 498 runs -
the most by an individual in an innings in school cricket history.
Armaan, playing for Bandra school Rizvi Springfield against Raja Shivaji of Dadar, struck as many as 77 fours in 490 balls at the
Karnatak Sports Association ground at Cross Maidan in South Mumbai
before he was caught behind two short of a well-deserved 500.
It was a chanceless knock by Armaan in his school’s Giles (under
14) Shield league match. The knock obliterated the earlier record
of 366 that stood in the name of Parikshat Walsankar of IES Sune
Guruji, the English medium school of Raja Shivaji Vidhyalaya.
Armaan, who was 295 not out last evening, later said Sachin
Tendulkar, who had created the world record school-level
partnership of 664 with Vinod Kambli in the Harris Shield, was his
idol.
“Sachin Tendulkar is my idol. I was not looking to set records but
wanted to bat as long as possible,” he said after his marathon
knock lasting more than eight hours.
Armaan’s innings helped Rizvi declare their innings closed at 800
for 8.
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