The young Indian protege, Prithvi Shaw has now let his bat do the talking as on Wednesday as he slammed a destructive double hundred in Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy Elite Group B game against Baroda. Shaw added to his stock after having scored 66 in the first innings as he smashed as many as 202 runs in 179 runs in the second innings.

Shaw’s innings was laced with 19 fours and seven sixes, to underline his credentials. The 20-year-old, who was given a backdated ban of eight months for a doping violation on July 30 by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), had earlier announced his return to competitive cricket by scoring a fifty in just 32 balls for Mumbai against Assam in the Syed Mushtaq Ali domestic T20 tournament last month.

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Shaw had celebrated in a ‘bat does the talk’ manner after reaching his half-century, and on Wednesday the highly-rated U-19 World Cup winning skipper got emotional. Mumbai had put up a total of 431 in the first innings and declared at 409/4 in the second essay replying to Baroda’s 307 on Day 3 of the contest.

The young protege had made a superb start to his Test career against the West Indies last year when he struck a century on debut and scored another half-century in the second Test. However, he got to play just two Tests for India as he was, later on, got suspended for failing the doping test.

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However, in the last couple of Test series against South Afric and Bangladesh, Mayank Agarwal and Rohit Sharma have almost sealed the position for the opening slots their own with brilliant displays in the home series against South Africa and West Indies.

Now, Shaw will need to score a plethora of runs in order to even get into consideration for the Indian squad.