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Cooch Behar Trophy Final: Karnataka’s Prakhar Chaturvedi breaks 24-year-old Yuvraj Singh’s record | Cricket News

In MS Dhoni’s biopic, there’s a famous dialogue from the protagonist, “Bahut mara, dhaaga khol diya ek dum (He smashed us all over the park),” about Yuvraj Singh’s 358 runs in the Cooch Behar Trophy final played between Punjab and Bihar. Twenty-four years later, Karnataka’s Prakhar Chaturvedi walloped Mumbai team in the 2023-24 final with an unbeaten 404. The 358 Yuvraj scored at Keenan Stadium had stayed as a record for the highest individual score in a Cooch Behar Trophy final for more than two decades. Batting first, Mumbai were bowled out for 380 runs and Prakhar’s knock was enough to help Karnataka win on the first-innings lead as they looted 890 for 8. Vijay Zol’s 451 not out for Maharashtra against Assam in the 2011-12 season remains the highest individual score in the tournament. Sanjay Chaturvedi, Prakhar’s father, is a software engineer who now runs his own start-up, while his mother, Rupa Chaturvedi, is a technical officer in Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO). Record-breaking knock! 👏👏 Karnataka’s Prakhar Chaturvedi broke records as he …

Karnataka’s Prakhar Chaturvedi scores unbeaten 404 against Mumbai in Cooch Behar Trophy final | Cricket News

Karnataka’s Prakhar Chaturvedi became the first player to score 400 runs in the final of the Cooch Behar Trophy after hammering an unbeaten 404 knock against Mumbai. In the process, Chaturvedi broke Yuvraj Singh’s 24-year-old record. Playing against Bihar Under-19 side (which also had a certain Mahendra Singh Dhoni in their ranks), Yuvraj had scored 358 runs in December 1999 while representing Punjab Under-19s at the Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur. Chaturvedi’s knock on Monday came off 638 balls at a strike rate of 63.32 and included 46 fours and three towering sixes at the KSCA Navule Stadium. Thanks to his knock, Karnataka, who had Won the toss and elected to field first, managed to pile on 890 runs from 223 overs before they declared after losing eight wickets. They racked up a lead of 510 runs having bundled Mumbai for just 380. Chaturvedi took Manan Bhatt in particular to the cleaners, scoring 97 off his bowling with two of his three sixes coming off Manan’s bowling. Chaturvedi also punished Akash Pawar (scoring 79 runs off …