Indian Schoolboy hit 546 from 330 ball

[koushik]

An Indian teenager
smashed an astonishing
546 off 330 balls in an
inter-school match in
Mumbai on Wednesday,
recording the third
highest score in any form
of cricket.
Pritvi Shaw of Spring fileld High school hit 85 boundaries
and five sixes, surpassing
the previous best score in
Mumbai schools cricket of
498 by Armaan Jaffar,
nephew of former Indian
opener Wasim Jaffar, two
years ago.
The 14-year-old's innings
was spread over two
days after he was
unbeaten on 257 on
Tuesday evening.
Indian statistician
Mohandas Menon
tweeted that Shaw's
effort was the third-
highest recorded score
behind the unbeaten 628
by Englishman Arthur
Collins in 1899 and 566
by Charles Eady of
Australia in 1901.
It was in the same Harris
Shield competition that
Tendulkar and Vinod
Kambli struck a 664-run
partnership for their
school in 1988,.

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[Zunaid]

Where is Armaan Jaffar today?

[Zeeshan]

Where does he need to be?

A record is a record. More people knows about Bradman than AEJ Collins; and the mere fact of it doesn't tarnish his record the least bit for stats geeks like us.

YMMV Doc.

[Zunaid]

Records are pointless if they don't mean anything. Don't tell me you own a Guinness Book of World Records propped up by your Wisden? These only serve to devalue the value of records. And don't through stats geekiness at someone who is probably a bigger stats geek than anyone out here - big data stats geek, beyond numbers stat geek.

[Roni_uk]

Don't really want to take anything away from the kid, so well done but what type of ball was it, how far was the boundary?

[Zeeshan]

Originally Posted by Zunaid
Records are pointless if they don't mean anything. Don't tell me you own a Guinness Book of World Records propped up by your Wisden? These only serve to devalue the value of records. And don't through stats geekiness at someone who is probably a bigger stats geek than anyone out here - big data stats geek, beyond numbers stat geek.

Mean anything for WHOM? If everyone became Tendulkar and Gayle who would be these fellas? These mean SOMETHING to him.

Celebrate the diversity in life because life is not all about fortune, fame and glory. As I said your mileage may vary; not every needs to subscribe to certain idealistic philosophy.

[Zunaid]

Kudos to the kid - great achievement for him but IN the big picture the numbers themselves mean nothing - the patterns do - the future does. Man, you tend to get your knickers all bunched up in these internet storms in a teacup (yeah, I am badly mangling a few metaphors) but I fail to see where "idealism' comes into play here. But - we may take this meta discussion elsewhere as this is way off topic.

[Zeeshan]

Originally Posted by Zunaid
Kudos to the kid - great achievement for him but IN the big picture the numbers themselves mean nothing - the patterns do - the future does. Man, you tend to get your knickers all bunched up in these internet storms in a teacup (yeah, I am badly mangling a few metaphors) but I fail to see where "idealism' comes into play here. But - we may take this meta discussion elsewhere as this is way off topic.

That's because you are always such a buzzkill. It's okay to be reticent but to be constantly cynical and skeptical. Damn my dad's like that too! :P

Frustrations....disillusionment perhaps? Okay now I am pulling your legs. Btw I just read the full story. Quoting relevant parts:

Shaw's story, like several others', is one of hard work. Before the age of 10, Shaw was already making long trips from Virar, a suburb 65 kms north of Mumbai, to the fairly central Bandra - a journey that takes 1 hour 45 minutes - to practice with the right people after his talent was spotted. The only family Shaw has is his father, who runs a struggling garment business. Support came through timely intervention from a local MLA, who arranged for an apartment so that the two could stay in Santacruz east, ten minutes away from Bandra's MIG club. Now, Shaw's education is been taken care of by the school - Rizvi Springfields - while he also earns a scholarship, which helps run the house.

[Gowza]

heard about this kid already, been talks about him, an incredible score.