In the final of the Times of India Shield in Bombay in December 1933, he scored 515 (with 32 sixes and 56 fours)[1] as well as taking 11 wickets.
[3] When Havewala was around 120, a ball bowled by the opposing captain G. N. Lalljee hit the stumps and deflected without dislodging the bails.
A large crowd attended the match on the next day, when Havewala was caught at deep mid off from a mishit.
[4] Havewala made his first first-class century in 1935–36, playing for Bombay against Western India in the Ranji Trophy.
[5] Earlier in the season he had scored 71 against the touring Australian side, prompting Charlie Macartney to write, "I have seldom seen finer hitting than that by Havewalla.