India is yet to recover from the setback of her favourite child Sachin Tendulkar announcing his retirement from the international cricket after 24 years of service to the game. Tendulkar - who is arguably the greatest batsman ever - seems extremely difficult to be replaced. However, India seems to have found a reason to believe in the future of India's cricket.

Prithvi Shaw, a school-boy from Mumbai, scored 546 off 330 at an inter-school match. This is the highest individual score in any form of the game in the last 100 years. Shaw played for Rizvi Springfield School against St Francis School. Interestingly, Tendulkar scored 326 in the same inter-school tournament, the Harris Shield, in 1988 to come into the limelight.

According to a tweet by Mohandas Menon, a celebrated Indian statistician, the only two other batsmen who scored more than Shaw were an Englishman - Arthur Collins (628 not out) and an Aussie - Charles Eady (566). Collins scored it in 1899, while Eady smashed the historic score in 1901.

Shaw, who opened the batting, surpassed the previous highest individual score in Mumbai school cricket, 498, which had been scored by Armaan Jaffar in 2011. Shaw, 14, batted for more than two days, hitting 5 sixes and 85 fours. He had his training in England this summer.

Shaw's coach, Raju Pathak, did not find his huge score surprising at all; ABC reports. He has said that Shaw is not only talented but had a splendid temperament as well as he plays without being pressured by the situation. Shaw had an extraordinary partnership with Satyalakshya Jain who scored a century. They scored 619 runs for the team which ended up amassing 991.

Shaw's team ended up winning the match by an innings and 759 runs on Thursday, according to the Times of India. His team bowled the opposition out for 92 only in their first innings. Rizvi bowled them out for 140 in their second innings. Sidak Singh, the left-arm spinner, had a 5-wicket haul.

The media have already started assuming if Indian cricket has got the next prodigy shortly after the exit of another.

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