15 yr old, 367 Minutes, 330 Balls, 85 4's - The Batting Wonder From Mumbai - Prithvi Shaw

NEW DELHI: Rizvi-Springfield skipper Prithvi Shaw, who slammed world record 546 runs against St. Francis D'Assisi in the Harris Shield tournament match on Wednesday, has a reputation of being a run-machine and a gritty performer in high-pressure games.

The 15-year-old right-hander is one of the most promising talents on the 22-yards. Prithvi is also captain of the Mumbai under-16 team.

His innings of 546 came in 367 minutes and took 330 balls. He scored 85 fours and five sixes on the way to breaking Armaan Jaffer's previous Harris Shield record of 498.

The previous highest by an Indian in any form of registered competitive cricket is 515 by Dadabhoy Havewala for BB and CI Railway vs St. Xavier's College at Mumbai during 1933-34 season.

Prithvi's 546 is the third highest score if one goes by all the registered scorecards available worldwide since the inception of competitive cricket. As per available information, AEJ Collins scored 628 not out in a competitive match in England in 1899 and CJ Eady struck 566 in another competitive match in 1901.

It was Harris Shield, which first brought Sachin Tendulkar into national prominence after his world record partnership of 664 with Vinod Kambli that was broken a few years back.

One of the first people to recognized Prithvi's potential and predicted his rise is Julian Wood — a former English county cricketer and the founder JW cricket academy.

"Five years ago, we were playing a match at the MIG. They put him to bat and he scored 73 against us and I said this is a very, very special boy. I met his father and I told him I will sponsor him. You don't see talent like that everyday at such a young age. I told him he should come to England one day," said Wood a few months ago.

Source: Times Of India
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Akshay Shows the Path!

With Mumbai growing each second both economically and socially, there are few issues that are yet to be addressed, the one main issue being the clean city. There has been pollution both up in the sky and down on the road, although every organization and celebrities try to speak about this and extend the knowledge to public, Akshay Kumar has recently done an extreme step.

It was yesterday that the actor was returning to his work after dropping his son at school and found a car driver throwing down an empty packet of cigarettes, which made the actor uneasy and he dropped down from his vehicle and threw back the empty pack back to the driver. He recently mentioned this on his twitter:

"I'm going to start with an apology, I'm sorry for this negative message guys, its just that on days like today I can..."

The actor later told TOI "I had to drop my son to school. We had been talking about the numerous cars on road these days. And he was telling me how he wished that the roads were safe enough for him to cycle to school. After I dropped him, I was on my way to work.

I was sitting in my car, in the usual Juhu traffic, when I saw a driver carelessly throw his empty pack of cigarettes on the road. I sat there quietly for about 5 seconds, before I just had to get out of my car, pick up the packet and throw the packet back at the driver's face. I dared him to throw rubbish on the ground again.

The man was very scared. He knew exactly what he had done. I know it for a fact that he will think twice before littering the streets of Mumbai again." 

He added that he had nothing against the city, he just wanted a cleaner place to live and a better place as more people are getting attracted to the city.

"Believe me, I am no angel. And I am not perfect either. I drive my car daily, I fly in planes and I even leave the light on at times. But I promise my son every day when he asks me 'How much have you done for the planet today?' that I would do my best to conserve energy as I possibly can," revealed Akshay.

Akshay concluded by saying "I completely understand that our government doesn't exactly provide us with every little thing to keep the city clean. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't do our little bit. One can look at it in two ways - Mumbai has so many people that it's dirty or Mumbai has so many people, they keep it clean. All it takes is a little care and attention."

courtesy: http://www.whosay.com/akshaykumar/photos/87531 and TOI

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