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By Will 2 years ago, mid-November Leave a comment on this post

Were the bowlers all blind or drugged into bowling half-volleys?

Two junior cricketers from Hyderabad created history when they added a world-record 721 runs in 40 overs to eclipse the 664-run stand between Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli set in 1987-88. The St Peter’s School openers B Manoj Kumar and Mohammed Shaibaaz Tumbi, both 13, hit an unbeaten 320 and 324 respectively in the Hyderabad Cricket Association Inter-School Under-13 tournament on Wednesday.

Show offs.

Tags: hyderabad, india, manoj-kumar, mohammed-shaibaaz-tumbi, records, sachin-tendulkar, st-peters-school, vinod-kambli |

Comments to “Wither, bowlers” harrowdrive wrote:
November 17th, 2006 at 12.52 pm

Would’t you just want to give up and bowl underarm?

Maybe that’s what happened!

slips wrote:
November 17th, 2006 at 2.00 pm

Good on the two kids - but will they ever get to pad up for India? A lot of time will pass between now and then, but I wish them the very best of luck.

Cricketmaniac wrote:
November 17th, 2006 at 3.19 pm

IF two school children beat Tendulkar and Kambli’s record, THEN does that mean these children are better than Tendulkar and Kambli? Point to ponder.

Patrick Kidd wrote:
November 17th, 2006 at 5.50 pm

The astonishing thing is that they did it without scoring a single six. Maybe they were playing “six and out”?

Could we encourage Kevin Pietersen that those are the rules for Test cricket, too?

Mani wrote:
November 17th, 2006 at 6.21 pm

the other team was bowled out for 21 runs..
so that says something about their cricket skills..
but still 700+ in 40 overs… yikes..
atleast 4 fours an over..

Alan R wrote:
November 18th, 2006 at 8.49 am

I imagine that when the opposition team would be inclined to bat first if they win the toss. At least things would be over quickly.

I’m not sure this means that these kids are great batsmen, though 3 runs per ball is impressive (I don’t think I could do that against 40 overs of underarm full tosses). I’m curious about how many extras there were.

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