Prithvi Shaw: Prithvi Shaw has recently been dropped by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) from the team squad selected for the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25. In place of Prithvi Shaw, the board has expressed confidence in Under 19 star player Ayush Mahatre. In such a situation, Prithvi Shaw neither has a chance to play in domestic cricket nor has he found any buyer in the IPL.
In such a situation, today we are going to tell you about an innings played by Prithvi Shaw for Mumbai in domestic cricket in which he was just a few runs away from touching the 400-run mark in a single innings.
Prithvi Shaw played an innings of 379 runs in Ranji Trophy 2022-23
Mumbai's star batsman Prithvi Shaw scored 379 runs with the help of 49 fours and 4 sixes in a match against Assam in the 2022-23 Ranji season, facing 383 balls. Prithvi Shaw fell short of touching the 400-run mark in first class cricket by just 21 runs in this innings. Prithvi Shaw was selected in the team squad as a backup player in the T20 series against New Zealand that year due to this innings.
Prithvi Shaw's innings led to a one-sided victory for Mumbai
In that Ranji match between Assam and Mumbai, due to Prithvi Shaw's innings of 379 runs, the Mumbai team scored 687 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in the first innings. In response to which Assam team scored 370 runs in the first innings, while in the second innings Assam team was all out for just 189 runs and in this way Mumbai team won the match by an innings and 128 runs.
MCA gave a big statement about Prithvi Shaw
After keeping Prithvi Shaw out of the team squad selected for Vijay Hazare Trophy, when the Mumbai Cricket Association official was asked the reason for excluding Prithvi Shaw, he said that after including Prithvi Shaw in the playing 11, the team is seen on the field with only 10 fielders because we have to hide Prithvi Shaw on the field.
