Mumbai teenager Pranav Dhanawade on Tuesday scripted history by becoming the first batsman ever to notch up a four-figure score smashing an unbeaten knock of 1009 in an inter-school tournament.

The 15-year-old playing for KC Gandhi Higher Secondary School reached the gigantic score in just 323 deliveries with a jaw-dropping strike rate of 312.38 in the game against Arya Gurukul in the Bhandari Cup inter-school tournament organised by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA).

In the course of his awe-inspiring innings which lasted 395 minutes Dhanawade smashed a whopping 129 fours and 59 sixes.

The epic knock ended when his school declared at 1465 for three at stumps on day two which is also a world record. His school went past Victoria's 1107 against New South Wales made way back in 1926.

Pranav now holds the record for the highest individual score in any form of cricket bettering AEJ Collins' 628 not out for Clark's House against North Town in 1899 in the UK. The 10th-standard boy is a ward of experienced MCA coach Mobin Sheikh and the only child of an autorickshaw driver.

The mammoth score was in reply to their rivals' paltry score of 31 all out in 17 overs at the Vaylengar ground at Kalyan in neighbouring Thane district.

Dhanawade who was unbeaten on 652 last evening thus became the world's highest-ever individual scorer in all forms of cricket.

During the course of his innings on Monday he went past the highest individual score of 546 in Indian schools cricket standing in the name of another Mumbai cricketer Prithvi Shaw of Rizvi Springfield made against St Francis D'Assissi in the Harris Shiled game in 2013.

"Dhanawade is with me from the age of six. His feat would give a strong boost to cricket in this area. We have lot of talent in and around Kalyan but lack of proper facilities has hampered it.

"Today (former India captain and MCA Vice President) Dilip Vengsarkar came and promised an academy here if he is provided with the ground and our local MLA promised to provide him wherever he wanted it" Sheikh told PTI.

Dhanawade's coach Mobin Sheikh told The Indian Express the score would force people to take notice.

"It's very tough for any player from the suburbs to make it to the Mumbai Under-16 side. Fifties 60s or even a hundred or two will not make a big impact. He needed a very big score and now that he has achieved it hopefully he will carry on from here."

"It's a proper ground for an under 16 game and the tournament is an MCA-recognised tournament. I was very happy with the opposing team and the way they approached the game" added the 50-year-old Central Bank of India employee who has been an MCA coach for several years.

Dhanawade's father Prashant rushed to the ground when he heard what was unfolding telling DNA India afterwards: "He has got cramps. I don't know what to say but I feel proud that my son has achieved this. Pranav is getting non-stop calls from the media and relatives. He has not even had time to talk to his mother. She is keenly waiting for him to return home."

He later told the Hindustan Times: "I was nervous throughout but was just happy to see my son batting. There's a lot of talent in our area but we lack proper facilities for children to play and get trained. For this reason when Pranav turned nine I enrolled him for coaching at MIG in Bandra. I would drive my rickshaw in the morning and then we'd leave for MIG in the afternoon and return at night."

He said the target for his son now was a place in the Mumbai Under-16 team adding: "Cricket equipment costs a lot of money. I have tried to find sponsors for my son but on one occasion I was told that he first needs to make a name for himself."