Fourteen-year-old Mumbai teenager Prithvi Shaw created a national record in Cricket today. He hit an astonishing 546, while playing for Rizvi Springfield against St Francis D’Assisi Borivali in an inter-school match for the prestigious Harris Shield in Mumbai.
Prithvi, the state Under-16 captain hit 85 boundaries and five sixes in the match played at the Azad Maidan. In the process, Prithvi became the first schoolboy cricketer to hit a 500 plus score in an official inter-school match.
Prithvi eclipsed his senior schoolmate and former India opener Wasim Jaffer’s nephew Arman’s score of 498, which he scored a few years back.