223* Off 63: Pranav Dwivedi Goes Absolute Maniac
Tactical Analysis & Match Flow
Rewa, MP — Forget milestones. Pranav Dwivedi does massacres. Turning out for RCB B in the RCB A vs RCB B KSCA Hinterland bloodbath, the Destroyers skipper did not just score his first T20 hundred — he skipped it entirely and parachuted straight into history with an unthinkable 223 not out off just 63 balls at 353.97, now officially the 3rd-highest individual score by any batter worldwide in a single T20 match, and the engine behind RCB B's savage 452 for 1 — the highest team total ever recorded in T20 history.
Let that sink in. Before this slaughter, Dwivedi's T20 ceiling was 83. A career of 26 innings, 1,359 runs, 16 fifties, zero hundreds — solid, respected, human. He then improved his career-best by a grotesque 140 runs in ONE innings, turning his first-ever T20 hundred into his biggest score in any format, towering over his Test 122* and ODI 102*. He did not break his record. He vaporised it.
The team meeting said it all: 500 or bust. No anchors, no respect for conditions, attack from ball one with the top seven given a kill order. Opening with Purvansh Shah, Dwivedi went feral instantly — eight sixes in the first two overs alone — before Shah himself turned into a monster with a demonic 100 off 27 balls at 370.37, including a freak sequence of 72 runs with no four, single or two — just sixes. At 25–26 an over, the scoreboard operator was begging for mercy and 500 looked alive.
Then spin arrived and briefly reminded everyone this was still cricket. The rate choked, the 500-dream bled — 16 runs behind, then 30, then 50. Ordinary mortals would have collapsed. Dwivedi instead mutated — the destroyer became the so-called anchor, if you can call 16 runs an over against spin at 353.97 overall anchoring. While others suffocated, he strangled the spinners back into submission and refused to let the innings die, carrying the entire apocalypse on his back for 63 balls.
And just when RCB A thought the torture was ending, BS Shiva walked in fresh and finished the burial. Deceptively quiet at 50 off 24, Shiva then unleashed pure hell — 79 runs off his next 20 balls at 395.00 — to close unbeaten on 129* off 44 at 293.18. Three assassins, three different murders: Shah's powerplay decapitation, Dwivedi's 63-ball world-top-3 epic, Shiva's late-overs execution. Result: 452/1.
RCB A never stood a chance in reply. Chasing an impossible mountain, they were ripped apart for 198, handing RCB B a colossal 254-run victory — one of the most one-sided annihilations the game has ever seen. "We had decided 500 was the target, so there was no point surviving," Dwivedi shrugged afterwards, as if 223* at nearly 3.6 runs a ball was normal. The RDCA database still reads 1,359 runs | HS 83 | 0 hundreds — it has not caught up yet. But the world already knows: from 83 straight to 223*, from zero hundreds to the 3rd-highest T20 score on the planet. He did not learn how to score a T20 hundred. He skipped the hundred and went straight to immortality.