Mumbai teenager scores 652*, breaks schools record

Pranav Dhanawade, a 15-year-old cricketer from Mumbai, broke a 117-year-old record on Monday by smashing 652 not out off 199 balls, to notch up the highest individual score in minor cricket.

Representing Smt KC Gandhi School, Kalyan, in the HT Bhandari Cup inter-school tournament, Dhanawade surpassed the score of 628* scored by Arthur Collins in 1899. He also broke the record for the highest individual score by an Indian cricketer in minor cricket, previously held by Prithvi Shaw who scored 546 in the Harris Shield in 2013-14.

Dhanawade, who played as an opening batsman, struck 78 fours and 30 sixes in his knock against Arya Gurukul School bowlers to lead his side to 956 for 1 on the opening day of the two-day match in Kalyan.

"I have always been a big-hitter," Dhanawade told the Hindustan Times. "When I started I never thought about breaking the record. The focus was never that. I just played my natural game, which is to attack from the word go.

"After reaching 300, my coach Harish Sharma told me to play on. I did not know of the world record, but we had the Indian record [Shaw's 546] in mind."

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India explores day-night options for Duleep Trophy

The BCCI tours and fixtures committee has recommended to its technical committee to consider playing day-night games with the pink ball in the Duleep Trophy. The Duleep Trophy is a inter-zonal first-class tournament, which was not held during this first-class season because of a crowded calendar. The next Duleep Trophy is likely to be played at the start of India's next season, during which the national team is expected to play 13 Tests at home.

A BCCI release said the committee discussed "various options" to bring more fans to Test matches in the coming season. The idea of day-night Tests has the support of India's Test captain Virat Kohli. Just before the first day-night Test, in Adelaide, Kohli had said: "I'm glad the two teams have actually agreed to play an official Test like that as an experiment. Credit to Australia and New Zealand, both, that they have decided to do this. Hopefully it will be better for the game. It will be a step which we all might remember few years down the line. Let's hope so.

"It is a step towards something. If it is officially put into place it will be something different, it will be something exciting. As cricketers we all should be willing and accepting of the fact that we need to step forward and contribute to the game however possible. If this is a step towards improving the excitement and the popularity of Test cricket, then I think every team should be in for it."

The problem anticipated with playing day-night matches during the first-class season in India is that a majority of it is played in the winter, which makes dew a big factor.

If the proposal is implemented, this won't be the first day-night first-class match in India. The Ranji Trophy final of the 1996-97 final was a day-night affair. It was played with a white ball in the month of April.

"I played in a five-day Ranji Trophy final in Gwalior that was a day-night fixture, and it was one of the best first-class matches I ever played in - the main reason being that we played in front of a big crowd for a change," Sanjay Manjrekar wrote of the match. "But clearly the white ball was an issue in that game and so the experiment was not repeated."

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Muttiah Muralitharan Throws Brian Lara a Fresh Challenge in Masters Champions League

The world's leading wicket-taker versus the man who has the highest score in an innings in international cricket. The stage is set for the ultimate contest between ball and bat as Muttiah Muralitharan dreams of Brian Lara's wicket once again.

The inaugural edition of the Masters Champions League in January-February will provide the perfect platform for two legends of the game to go head-on once more. Both in their 40s, Murali, who had taken a record 800 Test wickets, has had limited success against Lara, who continues to hold the record for the highest Test score of 400 not out. 

In 20 ODIs, Muralitharan dismissed Lara only once. In eight Tests, the Lankan off-spinner, has got Lara five times at an average of 56.80. 

The MCL, a T20 tournament for retired cricketers, will see an array of legends who will renew their rivalries in UAE from January 28-February 13, 2016. While Muralitharan will lead Gemini Arabians, the Prince of Cricket from Trinidad will captain Leo Lions.

"Brian and Sachin (Tendulkar) were great players. Brian is 45-46 and I am three years younger…may be, I will get over him this time," Muralitharan said in an interview.

The concept of former stars competing against each other is slowly gaining ground. The All-Stars Series, a brain child of Tendulkar and Shane Warne, was quite a success in the United States recently. The MCL is targeting the huge Indian, Pakistani and Sri Lankan population in the Gulf nations.

Interestingly, Muralitharan's team also has another off-spinning legend, Saqlain Mushtaq from Pakistan. It will be interesting to see who gets Lara's wicket.

Australia show no mercy to wanton West Indies

Towards the end of Australia's latest gargantuan first innings in a summer of batting gluttony, the West Indies opener Rajendra Chandrika was struck a painful blow on the wrist by an Adam Voges stroke. Quickly to his aid was the hosts' team doctor Peter Brukner. Chandrika recovered and later batted; it was the only moment's mercy offered by the Australians to their hapless quarry all day.

More representative was the bowling of Peter Siddle, James Pattinson and Nathan Lyon, all of whom harried their opponents relentlessly and were rewarded with regular victims. Lyon's loop, Pattinson's reverse swing and Siddle's accuracy made for a highly complementary attack, augmented by the stingy Josh Hazlewood.

By the close they had reduced the West Indies to a forlorn 6 for 89 in response to 551, leaving open the possibility of another follow on, another Australian innings victory and another three-day Test match. Even if the shorter turnaround to the New Year's Test in Sydney stops Steven Smith from making such a call, not even the most staunchly patriotic Australian supporter can take too much joy from ritual executions of such lopsided brutality.

A second day gathering of 40,416 was the sort of figure both Cricket Australia and the MCC would have been happy about. Nevertheless it was very apparent how on each day the crowds thinned after tea, as though they could not put themselves through the recurring spectacle of one of cricket's domineers beating up on an opponent in dreadful disrepair. For all the rhetoric of Curtly Ambrose and the good intentions of Jason Holder, there is very little within the power of this touring team to avoid problems that have built up over decades of neglect, infighting and divided loyalties.

The first half of day two had Voges and Smith batting without risk or any apparent danger. Their undefeated stand of 223 followed up the strong work of Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja on Boxing Day, and contributed to the statistical mountain being built by an Australian side growing daily under the leadership of their new captain.

Smith showed evidence that a rest had helped his sore knee in compiling his sixth hundred for 2015, while Voges continued on the merry way he began at Bellerive Oval in the first Test. He has now made 375 runs in the series without being dismissed, while his career average against the West Indies has reached a scarcely credible 542.

Though Smith's century was marked by a subdued celebration, but Voges was far more animated in marking his fourth hundred of a debut Test year in which he has passed 1000 runs in a mere 12 matches. Only Sir Donald Bradman, Neil Harvey and Sid Barnes managed to get there faster.

Together they ensured Australia's bowlers had plenty of runs to defend once again, and after Chandrika and Kraigg Brathwaite resisted briefly they made steady then increasingly swift progress through the thin remnants of what was once a galaxy of Caribbean batting riches.

Brathwaite's hands were too low and firm to prevent a catch squeezed to short leg when Lyon found bounce and spin. Chandrika was too generous in allowing Pattinson's in-ducker to strike him in front without offering a shot and then optimistically reviewing the decision. Marlon Samuels' wretched tour then gained another stanza when he was pinned seemingly in front by Pattinson for a duck and declined to review a ball that EagleEye had passing over the stumps.

Very nearly yorked first ball, Jermain Blackwood played a few smart strokes before he was reprieved when the inevitably grey of television replays meant Burns' apparent clean catch at square leg was overruled by the third umpire Ian Gould. The injustice of that decision was not to linger; Blackwood bunting a return catch to Lyon and Denesh Ramdin flicking a clearer catch to Burns before Siddle snaked a straightening ball around Holder's dead bat to make it six wickets in the final session.

If Voges and Smith did not pile up runs at quite the same rate seen in Hobart, their security at the crease was seemingly unaffected by more patient spells from several West Indian bowlers. Both batsmen gave up edges, Smith an inside edge to fine leg when attempting to force Kemar Roach through the off side, and Voges skewing Carlos Brathwaite past slips 15 minutes before lunch.

The MCG surface was flat and easy paced for batting when Smith and Voges resumed, intent upon stretching the hosts' tally into an intimidating region for the West Indies. There were attractive strokes to be viewed by a crowd that grew steadily, but precious little tension between bat and ball.

A reminder of the vast gap between the teams arrived when Australia knocked off their 1000th run for the series, all at a cost of just seven wickets. The scoreboard flashed a reminder that both sides have still got two DRS referrals in their pockets. It is perhaps the only area in which Australia and the West Indies have ever had parity in the series.

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