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.
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).
“We are from Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, but I have been living in Bengaluru for more than two decades now. I am an IIT BHU pass-out myself, and obviously, I wanted him to focus on his studies, but for the past couple of years, cricket has taken over. He has good grades in Class XII and is now in BA first year and is pursuing economics,” Chaturvedi tells The Indian Express.
