Retired Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has congratulated Indian teenager Pranav Dhanawade, who scored 1,000 runs in a single innings in school cricket.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday afternoon, Sachin wrote: "Congratulations #PranavDhanawade on being the first ever to score 1000 runs in an innings."
He went on saying: "Well done and work hard. You need to scale new peaks!"
Fifteen-year-old Dhanawade broke the previous record of 628 set by Arthur Collins in 1899.
But he continued his innings in the HT Bhandari Cup inter-school tournament and reached the 1,000-run mark.
He smashed 59 sixes and 127 fours before his KC Gandhi School declared the innings at 1,465 against Arya Gurukul School on Tuesday.
"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," Dhanawade was quoted by the Hindustan Times.