Maharashtra schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade rewrote the record books yesterday, hammering an epic 1,009 not out in an inter-school cricket tournament to register the highest individual score in an innings in any form of the game.

The 15-year-old smashed 129 fours and clobbered 59 sixes in his staggering 323-ball knock played over two days before his team, KC Gandhi School, declared their innings on a staggering 1,465 for two.

An admirer of India’s limited overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Dhanawade’s monumental knock drew praise from batting great Sachin Tendulkar.

“Congrats #PranavDhanawade on being the first ever to score 1,000 runs in an innings. Well done and work hard. You need to scale new peaks!” tweeted the former India captain.

Dhanawade, who opened the innings against Arya Gurukul School, had gone past Arthur Collins’s 628 not out, the previous highest in minor cricket scored in 1899 in England, on Monday.

“I have always been a big-hitter,” Dhanawade told the Hindustan Times after Monday’s play.

“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.”