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MiD DAY Xl: The best Under-16 cricketers in Mumbai
Updated On: 03 February, 2014 08:39 AM IST | | Sundari Iyer and Ashwin Ferro
<p>In its quest to promote school sports, this is the newspaper's first initiative is to project 11 top performers in the recent Harris Shield U-16 tourney. Watch out for more!</p>

Prithvi Shaw (Captain)
School: Rizvi Springfield (Bandra)
Playing position: Opener
Batting style: Right-handed batsman
Bowling style: Off spinner
Age: 14
Performance this season
Total runs: 1060
Total wickets: 9
Harris highlight: The diminutive batting prodigy set a new record when he piled on a mammoth 546 runs against St Francis D'Assisi (Borivli) in the Harris Shield season-opener (Nov 20) at Azad Maidan. He erased the previous mark of 473 set by his school mate Armaan Jaffer. The Rizvi captain ended the season on a high, leading his school to its sixth consecutive Harris Shield title.
Vaibhav Kalamkar
School: Rizvi Springfield (Bandra)
Playing position: Opener-wicketkeeper
Batting style: Right-handed batsman Age: 13
Performance this season
Total runs: 300
Wicketkeeping: Four catches & one stumping
Harris Shield highlight: The cautious opening batsman played the sheet-anchor role to perfection in his team's Harris Shield season-opening encounter against St Francis D'Assisi (Borivli) with a first wicket partnership of 153 runs with skipper Prithvi Shaw, who went on to register a record 546 runs. In the final, against IES VN Sule Guruji, Vaibhav took two crucial catches besides scoring a valuable 48 and 26 in the two innings as Rizvi won via first innings lead.
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