AINA TV NETWORK's video: Pankaj Shaw New Cricket Star

Pankaj Shaw, who endured a poor run in Bengal's recently-concluded Ranji Trophy campaign, slammed an unbeaten 413 on Sunday (December 25) to register the highest score in Bengal's club cricket history and it is a new record. Playing for Barisha Sporting Club against Dakshin Kalikata Sansad at the Oxford Mission Ground, the Bengal batsman took only 289 balls in his mammoth innings, a knock that included 44 boundaries and 23 sixes, to notch up the fifth-highest score in India's senior cricket. He shared stands of 203 with Ajmer Singh (47) for the sixth wicket and 191 with Shreyan Chakraborty (22) for the eighth wicket. The record for the highest score in senior competitive cricket in India is held by Dadabhoy Havewala, who scored 515 runs for Bombay Baroda and Central India Railways against St Xavier's College, Mumbai in 1933-34. Bhausaheb Nimbalkar's unbeaten 443, Ravi Deshmukh's 442 not out and Gurpal Singh's 437 are the other scores ahead of Shaw's efforts this Christmas. Shaw's quickfire 413 not out helped his side declare on 708 for 8 but the match eventually ended in a draw. Shaw didn't have a good time in Ranji Trophy this year, having registered only a solitary half century. He scored 155 runs in eight innings, at an average of 19.37.