Prithvi Shaw
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Family
Shaw’s Bihar connection
SHAW’S BIHAR CONNECTION, October 5, 2018: The Times of India
Prithvi Shaw has a Bihar connection. His parents lived in Manpur – a colony on the outskirts of Gaya town which is famous for powerloom units and producing IIT-ians in droves – before migrating to Mumbai.
Thursday was hectic for Ashok Gupta, grandfather of Prithvi. Acquaintances and well-wishers thronged his three-storey home on hearing his grandson’s feat. Gupta runs a small cloth shop named Shri Balaji Cut Piece Centre. Interestingly, he sells pieces of cloth by weight and not by measurement, which is the more common practice.
Gupta occasionally visits his son’s family in Mumbai. In a newspaper report published earlier this year, he had recalled how Prithvi had complained to him on not being congratulated after being made the captain of India’s U-19 team.
“I told him, you win the World Cup and the world will congratulate you,” he was quoted as saying. After India won the U-19 ODI World Cup, crackers were burst in Shivcharan lane where Gupta’s shop is located.
Career
2000-Oct 2018: the early years
From: K Shriniwas Rao and Sandhya Nair, October 5, 2018: The Times of India
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Prithvi Shaw, 2000-Oct 2018: the early years
Centuries on debut
Prithvi Shaw became the first Indian batsman to score a hundred on his Ranji, Duleep and Test debut, when he cracked 134 (154b; 19x4) on the first day of his first Test (against W Indies, 2018).
2017
Century on debuts in Ranji and Duleep Trophy
Centurion Shaw emulates Tendulkar, Sep 26 2017: The Times of India
A tango under the lights by Prithvi Shaw and Dinesh Karthik put India Red in the driver's seat against India Blue on the opening day of their Duleep Trophy final.
Both scored chan celess hundreds and were involved in a 211 run partnership for the third wicket as the Reds closed the day at 317 for five on Monday . But it was Shaw who once again showed why he is being hailed as an emerging force, by compiling a fine 154 to grab the spotlight.
Shaw's debut century put him in a select group with Sachin Tendulkar and Deepak Hooda, both of whom have scored centuries on their debuts in both the Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy. Shaw became the second youngest after Tendulkar to score a Duleep debut century . Tendulkar had also scored a century in his first Irani Trophy match.
2018
February 20, 2018: The Times of India
From: October 5, 2018: The Times of India
Scored 120 on first-class debut in the 2016-17 Ranji Trophy semi-finals, the first Mumbai batsman to do so in more than two decades. Scored 71 and 44 in the Ranji final, which Mumbai lost to Gujarat. Went on to score a century on Duleep Trophy debut (154) to put India Red on course for title triumph. In his first full season of Ranji Trophy cricket, scored 537 runs at 48.81, with three centuries, for Mumbai. Was India Under-19’s third highest run-getter in the 5-0 one-day series sweep of England U-19s. Was named captain of the India U-19 squad to play the Junior World Cup in New Zealand.
Records and statistics
[2023 Jan 10] Shaw became the only Indian apart from Rohit Sharma and Virender Sehwag to have scored a century in T20s, a double hundred in List A cricket, and a 300 in first-class cricket.
[2023 Jan 10] Prithvi has played five Tests, six ODIs and one T20I, and last played for India in July 2021, during a white-ball tour of Sri Lanka. He played the last of his five Tests against Australia on December 17–19, 2020, in Adelaide.
