DTVHINDIDrona Desai: This 18-year-old boy from Gujarat registered his name in the record books by scoring 498 runs in a single innings
Dron Desai played a marathon inning of 498 runs while playing for St. Xavier’s School in the Under-19 school level cricket tournament. Drona Desai (Source X) Who is Drona Desai: 18-year-old Dron Desai of Ahmedabad is in the headlines these days. This young cricketer has done such feats that no cricket fan can stop himself from praising him. Dron Desai played a marathon innings of 498 runs while playing for St. Xavier’s School in the Under-19 school level cricket tournament. With this brilliant innings, he has attracted the attention of many great players. On the basis of this brilliant innings, he led his team to victory by 712 runs. Dron Desai, a student of St. Xavier’s Loyola Hall, has entered the list of players with the highest individual score in inter-school cricket in Gujarat with this innings. He played this brilliant innings of 498 runs in the Diwan Ballubhai Cup (under-19 age group) against JL English School. 498 runs scored in 320 balls Desai played a memorable innings of 498 runs with the help of 86 fours and 7 sixes in 320 balls. Desai’s score of 498 runs is the third highest score in India. The highest score was made by Pranav Dhanawade in 2016, who scored an unbeaten 1009* in the Bhandari Cup inter-school cricket tournament. After this, Prithvi Shaw scored 546 runs in the Harris Shield in 2013. It is disappointing not to reach the 500 run mark Desai was unaware of his 498 runs and was disappointed at missing the 500-run mark by two runs. He dedicated this innings to his coach Jai Prakash Patel, under whose guidance he has been training since the age of seven. He said, “I am disappointed that I missed 500 runs by 2 runs, but overall I am very happy. I dedicate this innings to Jai Prakash Patel sir, who made me understand the value of my wicket from the very beginning. I hit 86 fours and only 7 sixes in my innings, and most of the fours were ground shots. Till the age of 14, he told me to play only ground shots.” Now it remains to be seen how much Dron Desai can make use of his performance and whether he can make it to the state teams and senior teams, like former Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel and Gujarat opening batsman Priyank Panchal did.
