Prakhar… first to attain 400 in a Cooch Behar Trophy closing.
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Karnataka’s maiden Cooch Behar Trophy (Underneath-19) title got here with an icing on the cake.
In Shivamogga on Sunday, Karnataka defeated Mumbai within the closing by advantage of a mammoth 510-run first-innings lead.
This was largely made attainable by the soon-to-be 19 Prakhar Chaturvedi, who smashed an unbeaten 404, studded with 46 fours and three sixes. Mumbai had made 380 in its first innings, just for Karnataka, led by opener Prakhar, to build up a mind-boggling 890 for eight decl.
The simply reward for Prakhar and his teammates — other than the trophy — was an viewers with India head coach Rahul Dravid on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Tuesday on their return to Bengaluru.
Together with his knock, Prakhar went previous Yuvraj Singh’s 24-year-old report for the very best particular person rating in a Cooch Behar closing (358) earlier than etching his title slightly below Maharashtra’s Vijay Zol, whose 451 not out in opposition to Assam in 2011-12 is the very best within the event.
Within the 2023-24 version, Prakhar completed second within the scorers’ listing with 795 runs.
Ok. Jeshwanth, former Karnataka captain and Prakhar’s coach on the Six Cricket Academy housed contained in the Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports activities Excellence in Bengaluru’s outskirts, informed The Hindu that although he anticipated good issues from Prakhar, the quadruple century got here as a shock.
“It [success] was a matter of time, however nobody anticipated this massive a rating,” he stated.
“He has had not too many comfortable conditions with choices. However he has all the time trusted his capability. He can go greater. He’s not a high-risk participant, so he’s technically outfitted to play good cricketing photographs throughout codecs.”