Photo: God’s gift to Pranav Dhanawade

You have to be god-gifted to achieve what Pranav Dhanawade did. Earlier this week, the 15-year-old boy from Kalyan, smashed 1,009 not out in an inter-school competition. In doing so, he became the first batsman in any recorded form of cricket to surpass the 700-mark. He went on to score more and brought up the unbelievable thousand-mark.

Pranav, who won the game for his school KC Gandhi, is a huge fan of Sachin Tendulkar. Congratulatory messages came in from all around the globe and even the great Tendulkar tweeted: 

Congrats #PranavDhanawade on being the first ever to score 1000 runs in an innings. Well done and work hard. You need to scale new peaks!

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— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) January 5, 2016

If that wasn’t enough, the Master Blaster went on to gift Pranav an autographed bat. The BCCI tweeted a picture of the youngster with his parents. Pranav’s father is an auto-rickshaw driver and earlier Maharashtra Government announced that from hereon they will bear his education and cricket coaching expenses. 

Master Blaster @sachin_rt gifts his own autographed bat to #PranavDhanawade for his record breaking innings pic.twitter.com/N8eoqQ4AQK

— BCCI (@BCCI) January 7, 2016

Pranav aspires to play for India but for now his focus in on the 10th board exams, which he will appear in the first week of March.