Young Indian prodigy, Prithvi Shaw before making his international debut in October of 2018, batted for over 2 days to end up scoring 546 runs in the match at the Azad Maidan in Mumbai. His record-breaking innings consisted of 85 fours and 5 sixes. It took him 367 minutes to become the then-highest Indian run-scorer in single innings of minor cricket.

Recalling that innings Prithvi Shaw has said that the wicketkeeper from the opposition team was so frustrated that he said, “I am not coming tomorrow. At that time I wasn’t even at 500. I was playing at 300. The poor thing kept squatting behind me, waiting for a ball.”

Further, 20-year-old recalled the moment when the batting legend, Sachin Tendulkar came to see him play and gifted a bat. Shaw was starstruck on watching Tendulkar. Prithvi was not even aware then that Sachin had come to watch him.

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Shaw elaborated, “When I was 8 years old he (Tendulkar) came to MIG. That’s all I remember. He was watching from somewhere but I didn’t know till he said something. When he gave me the bat, I was feeling emotional. He wished me good luck and said ‘I hope you score tons of runs with this bat’.”

Prithvi Shaw’s father also recalled the old days when people would gather around to see the youngster playing with the tennis ball. Prithvi’s father thinks the reason behind the crowd gathering to see the opener was the same as today, as the youngster hasn’t changed the style of his batting. 

Shaw has been a hard-working cricketer and it was the only way he made a name for himself on a vast map of legendary cricketers who have graced the game of cricket. Shaw scored a hundred in his debut Test innings and became the third batsman after Gundappa Viswanath and Australia’s Dirk Wellham to achieve the feat. He also became the second-youngest Indian after Sachin Tendulkar to score a Test hundred.

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Recalling the day when Shaw was adjudged Man of the Match and Man of the Series in his debut Test match and debut series. This also became a reason for him to give three speeches in the Indian dressing room. The youngster explained, “I had to give a speech there (in the dressing room). Actually three speeches. One before my Test debut, one after I got the Man of the Match and then after getting Man of the Series.”