Cricket is a sport well-liked by many in a lot of countries. Similarly, its popularity in the sub-continent is momentous, historic as well as colossal! Children learn to play cricket from a very young age, be it on the streets, in grounds or in stadiums. And this article is about a victorious achievement of such a kid. Armaan Jaffer, a school going kid in Mumbai, India, has recently had the world records adding another number under the Mumbai world-record players.
Mumbai is a city having a reputation of bringing out the most talented batsmen of their kind, who eventually end up in lists of record-shattering batsmen. Another such boy is newly discovered sensation, Armaan Jaffer, who is the nephew of Wasim – Captain of Ranji trophy and a previous Indian opening batsman. Armaan accumulated a score of 498, which is the most high-pitched score ever in the history of cricket played in schools.
The match was held on the grounds of Karnatak Sports (–foul word(s) removed–)ociation at Cross Maidan in the area of South Mumbai. Armaan, who was represented the Bandra School Rizvi Springfield, was playing against Dadar’s Raja Shivaji. The four centuries and 1 half a century consisted of a stupendous number of fours, which was a total of 77 on 490 balls. He was caught and was out before he could complete his wondrous 5 centuries in a row.
The match was played for the Shield league competition for players under 14. This record broke all the previous records including the one which was on top before: a total of 360 made by Parikshat Walsankar who was representing IES Sune Guruji, which is an English medium school owned by Raja Shivaji Vidhyalaya. While we are on the subject, this world breaking score of Armaan also broke the record of the under 16 player, Sarfraz Khan, who made a total score of 439 in the Harris Shield Inter school tournament.
According to Armaan, who had made a total score of 295 in the first innings, mentioned that he idolizes Sachin Tendulkar. Tendulkar is currently playing for the Indian National team and himself is world renowned player. Out of his various world records, the one who matches the current scenario is the score of 664 which he scored with Vinod Kambli in a partnership at school level in Harris Shield.
The match was closed at a total of 800 for 8 players out, the score mainly resulting due to Armaan’s efforts.