WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2016 SPORTS

Mumbai boy’s 1,000 runs in innings smash 117-year record

MUMBAI: A Mumbai schoolboy made been bowled out earlier for just 31, ment sent Twitter into a frenzy. His history yesterday when he became the according to the Press Trust of India. name trended in India, with excited but first batsman in any class of to Dhanawade’s innings lasted 395 minutes also nervous cricket fans posting regular score 1,000 runs in a single innings, with and occurred during the Bhandari Cup score updates as he neared the 1,000 Indian legend leading school tournament, which is officially mark. the plaudits. recognised by the Mumbai Cricket Ayaz Memon, a cricket expert, said it Fifteen-year-old Pranav Dhanawade Association. would be a phenomenal feat for a crick- smashed his way to 1,009 off 323 The teenager, who also plays as wick- eter to score four digits at any level of balls as he obliterated a 117-year-old et-keeper, surpassed Collins’ score on the game. record for the highest number of runs Monday, finishing the day on 652, before “It’s just incredible. Scoring 1,000 runs scored in one innings. crossing the 1,000 mark after lunch yes- in less than two days at this speed is a Dhanawade, the son of an auto-rick- terday. great achievement,” Memon told AFP. shaw driver, soared past Arthur Collins’ “I have always been a big-hitter. But translating this accomplishment previous record total of 628 in England When I started I never thought about from club to international level will be a in 1899, during an inter-school tourna- breaking the record,” Dhanawade told big challenge for the teenager, he said. ment in the western Indian city. the Hindustan Times after his opening- The omens are good, however- “Congrats #PranavDhanawade on day knock. Tendulkar, Dhanawade’s hero, being the first ever to score 1,000 runs in “The focus was never that. I just first burst onto the scene in 1988 aged an innings. Well done and work hard. played my natural game, which is to 14 when he scored 326 not out in a You need to scale new peaks!” Indian attack from the word go. Mumbai school match. batting great Tendulkar posted on “After reaching 300, my coach Harish He went on to become the highest Twitter. Sharma told me to play on. I did not scorer in the history of as MUMBAI: Pranav Dhanawade, a 15-year-old opening batsman, who scored 1009 Dhanawade’s epic knock included know of the world record, but we had well as the first player to score 100 inter- not out in a tournament recognized by the Mumbai Cricket Association shows a 129 fours and 59 sixes and came at a the Indian record in mind,” he added, national centuries. thumbs up gesture as he poses near the score board in Mumbai, India, yester- phenomenal strike rate of 312.38. It end- referring to the previous highest nation- “...(The) numbers are just unbeliev- day. The Mumbai teenager has become the first batsman to score 1000 runs in ed when his KC Gandhi High School al individual total of 546. able. Another @sachin_rt in the mak- an officially recognized innings. — AP team declared on 1,465 at the ground at ing?” tweeted Indian international spin Thane in northern Mumbai. ‘ANOTHER TENDULKAR?’ bowler Harbhajan Singh yesterday . India, was aged just 13 when he entered College in Bristol, where a plaque hon- Their opponents, Arya Gurukul, had Dhanawade’s monumental achieve- Collins, who himself was born in the record books for his score at Clifton ours his exploits. —AFP NZ seal series win over S Lanka

MOUNT MAUNGANUI: New Zealand the day Guptill capped a remarkable sealed the one-day series against Sri home season with his 10th ODI century, Lanka yesterday with Martin Guptill’s reaching 102 in 109 deliveries to go with century spearheading a 36-run victory in his 79, 93 not out, 30 and 27 earlier in the fifth and final one-dayer at Mount the series. Maunganui. When Mathews won the toss and put Matt Henry’s five- bag helped New Zealand into bat he had an imme- ensure the hosts took a 3-1 series win to diate result with Tom Latham out in the go with their 2-0 Test domination last first over without scoring. But Guptill month. New Zealand posted 294 for 5 and Kane Williamson then established batting first at the popular beachside New Zealand’s dominance with 122 for resort venue with Guptill making 102, the second wicket. before Sri Lanka were all out for 258 with Any loose ball was despatched 17 balls remaining. towards the boundary with a Guptill four Sri Lanka , bringing up their century partnership in with a brave knock of 95, had set the 115 balls. But a lapse in timing by scene for a cliff-hanger finish when he Williamson on 61 led to his undoing led his side to 223 for 5 before the tail when he gloved an attempt to sweep a folded in six overs for the addition of leg-side from Tillakaratne only 35 runs. The last three fell Dilshan and wicketkeeper Dinesh for six runs in the space of 10 deliveries. Chandimal snared the catch. Ross Taylor Along with Mathews, put on 81 for the third wicket with and Milinda Siriwardana played their Guptill who was by Thisara part in keeping Sri Lanka in with a Perera off . chance for most of the their innings. Taylor brought up his half-century with Mathews and Chandimal produced a 93- a six to mid-wicket before also falling to run stand for the fourth wicket before Kulasekara. Sri Lanka in reply were on the Trent Boult, making his first appearance back foot in the third over when Dilshan, in the series, dismissed Chandimal for marking his 300th ODI, was removed by 50. Boult for five. Henry bowled Lahiru CAPE TOWN: South African batsman Temba Bavuma plays a shot during day 4 of the second Test match between England and South Africa at After (15) made a brief Thirimanne for two and had Danushka the Newlands stadium yesterday in Cape Town, South Africa.—AFP appearance at the crease Siriwardana Gunathilaka caught for 15 as Sri Lanka and Mathews cracked 62 off 40 to have slumped to 33 for 3 after nine overs Sri Lanka at 223 for 5 with nine overs before Mathews put some respectability and five wickets to get the remaining 72 into their innings. Henry, who was only runs. required by New Zealand for three of the Amla, Bavuma bat But when Siriwardana fell to Mitchell five matches, finished with five for 50 to Santner for 39, New Zealand rammed give him 13 wickets in the series, while home their advantage. At the start of Boult took three for 43. —AFP

SCOREBOARD S Africa to safety

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand: Completed scoreboard in the fifth and final ODI between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at Mount Maunganui yesterday: CAPE TOWN: Hashim Amla hit a double century and Temba Bavuma made a maiden hundred as SCOREBOARD New Zealand L. Thirimanne b Henry 2 South Africa batted their way to safety on the M. Guptill c Perera b Kulasekara 102 D. Chandimal c Williamson b Boult 50 fourth day of the second Test against England at CAPE TOWN: Scores at close of play on the fourth day of the second Test between South Africa and England T. Latham c Chandimal b Pradeep 0 A. Mathews c Nicholls b Henry 95 Newlands yesterday. at Newlands yesterday: K. Williamson c Chandimal b Dilshan 61 T. Perera c Taylor b Milne 15 South Africa made 627 for seven before R. Taylor c Siriwardana b Kulasekara 61 M. Siriwardana c Nicholls b Santner 39 declaring two runs short of England’s first- England, first innings, 629-6 dec Kock), 7-616 (Morris) H. Nicholls c Dilshan b Kulasekara 2 C. Kapugedera c Milne b Henry 10 innings total of 629 for six declared. England South Africa, first innings (overnight 353-3) Bowling: Anderson 35-12-77-1, Broad 34-8-94-2 (2w), L. Ronchi not out 37 N. Kulasekara c Santner b Boult 15 D. Elgar c Compton b Stokes 44 Ali 52-14-155-0, Finn 39-5-132-2 (2w), Root 20-4-54-0 M. Santner not out 21 D. Chameera c Nicholls b Henry 0 openers Alastair Cook and Alex Hales negotiated a tricky six overs, reaching 16 for no wicket at S. van Zyl run out (Compton) 4 (3w), Stokes 28-4-100-1 (4w), Hales 3-1-2-0. Extras (lb5, w5) 10 N. Pradeep not out 0 H. Amla b Broad 201 Total (5 wickets; 50 overs) 294 Extras (lb1, w11) 12 the close. They will go into the last day with an Did not bat: D. Piedt, M. Morkel A. de Villiers c Anderson b Finn 88 Did not bat: I. Sodhi, A. Milne, M. Henry, T. Boult Total (10 wickets; 47.1 overs) 258 overall lead of 18 runs. F. du Plessis c Stokes b Anderson 86 Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Latham), 2-125 (Williamson), 3- Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Dilshan), 2-15 (Thirimanne), Amla made 201 and Bavuma 102 not out in a England, second innings T. Bavuma not out 102 206 (Guptill), 4-215 3-33 (Gunathilaka), South African innings which lasted for 211 overs A. Cook not out 8 Q. de Kock c Anderson b Broad 5 (Nicholls), 5-262 (Taylor). 4-126 (Chandimal), 5-161 (Perera), 6-223 and more than two days. The innings featured A. Hales not out 5 Bowling: Pradeep 10-1-69-1 (w2), Chameera 9-0- (Siriwardana), 7-237 (Kapugedera), C. Morris c Root b Finn 69 three partnerships of more than 150. Extras (nb3) 3 41-0 (w1), Perera 6-0-45-0, 8-252 (Mathews), 9-253 (Chameera), 10-258 Amla was involved in the first two big stands, K. Rabada not out 2 Kulasekara 10-0-53-3 (w2), Dilshan 10-0-49-1, (Kulasekara). Extras (b4, lb9, w13) 26 Total (0 wkts, 6 overs) 16 Siriwardana 5-0-32-0. Bowling: Boult 8.1-0-43-3 (w2), Henry 10-1-40-5 183 for the third wicket with AB de Villiers (88) Bowling: Morkel 3-2-4-0 (1nb), Rabada 3-0-12-0 (2nb) and 171 for the fourth with Faf du Plessis (86). Total (7 wkts dec, 211 overs) 627 (w4), Milne 9-0-54-1 (w5), Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Van Zyl), 2-85 (Elgar), 3-268 (De Match situation: England lead by 18 runs with 10 Sri Lanka Santner 9-1-54-1, Sodhi 9-0-55-0, Williamson 2-0- But there was still some alarm for South Africa Villiers), 4-439 (Amla), 5-439 (Du Plessis), 6-449 (De wickets remaining in the second innings. D. Gunathilaka c Sodhi b Henry 15 11-0. when three wickets, including those of Amla and T. Dilshan c Ronchi b Boult 5 Result: New Zealand win by 36 runs. Du Plessis, fell to the third new ball soon after lunch. Bavuma and new cap Chris Morris came together with their side still 180 runs behind with five wickets remaining and England still hoping to secure a good first innings lead. Gayle fined for ‘out But the pair played fearless cricket and added 167 runs, a South African seventh wicket part- nership record against England. of line’ TV chat-up Bavuma, the first black African batsman to play Test cricket for South Africa, struck the ball SYDNEY: Chris Gayle was fined but avoided sus- night.” “It’s not a nightclub - it’s actually a work- cleanly as he raced to 50 off 52 balls with 11 pension for making inappropriate comments to place, it’s Chris Gayle’s workplace and it’s Mel fours. a female reporter in a live TV interview during a McLaughlin’s workplace and those comments He was made to work harder for his second Big Bash League match in Australia. border on harassment and are inappropriate for fifty, which he reached off 140 deliveries with a After scoring 41 from 15 deliveries for the cricket and inappropriate for the workplace,” he thick edge off Steven Finn which went to the Melbourne Renegades in a win over the Hobart said. “We are working incredibly hard to ensure boundary for his 16th four. Hurricanes on Monday night, the former West cricket is a sport for all Australians - men and England’s bowlers toiled with minimal reward Indies captain suggested to television reporter women, boys and girls - and we just won’t toler- on a pitch which offered no assistance. Their Mel McLaughlin that the pair go out for a drink ate behavior that undermines that.” cause was not helped by a rash of missed and made remarks about her appearance. He chances, with nine catches going down in the added, “Don’t blush, baby” during an awkward ‘SIMPLE JOKE’ innings. Amla benefited from four dropped or pause in the interview. Sutherland said that because the Renegades missed catches, while De Villiers, Du Plessis, Cricket Australia chief executive James had sanctioned Gayle, the veteran batsman Bavuma and Morris (two) all gave chances. Sutherland on Tuesday joined the criticism of would not face further action from Cricket Stuart Broad and James Anderson struck Gayle’s suggestive comments, saying it bordered Australia for this incident. three times with the third new ball in a rare peri- on harassment and was inappropriate in the Coventry and Gayle both apologized to od of ascendancy for the bowlers. Amla was workplace. Renegades chief executive Stuart McLaughlin, with the player defending his com- bowled off bat and pad and Du Plessis followed Coventry reacted by fining Gayle $10,000 ments as a “simple joke.” “There wasn’t anything four balls later, caught in the gully off Anderson. Australian dollars ($7,300). meant to be disrespectful or offensive to Mel. If Quinton de Kock made only five before pulling a “It was done in jest but it’s inappropriate,” she felt that way, I’m really sorry for that,” Gayle short ball from Broad to backward square leg. Coventry said. “We had a look at some history was quoted as saying by Australian Associated Amla, who made his fourth Test double cen- and ... we think that this is a one-off scenario.” Press. “There wasn’t any harm meant in that par- tury, batted for 707 minutes, faced 477 balls and Coventry said Gayle was “quite surprised” when ticular way. hit 27 fours. With a draw almost assured, informed of the fine, which will be donated to “It was a simple joke - the game was going BAY OVAL: New Zealand celebrate winning the series 3-1 after the fifth one day inter- England look set to take a 1-0 lead into the third charity. on. Things get out of proportion but these things national cricket match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at the Bay Oval in Mount Test of the four-match series in Johannesburg Sutherland said Gayle “got it badly wrong last happen.” —AP Maunganui yesterday. — AFP next week. — AFP