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Mint
27-06-2025
- Sport
- Mint
Prithvi Shaw reveals how Sachin Tendulkar's words pulled him back on track: ‘I still believe in you'
Prithvi Shaw has been in the limelight since 2013, when, aged just 14, he scored 546 runs in the Harris Shield school cricket match. Since then, the child prodigy has gone on to break multiple records, even leading India to victory in the 2018 U-19 World Cup alongside prominent players such as Shubman Gill, Arshdeep Singh and Abhishek Sharma. The batter soon earned a place in the Indian team and was compared to Sachin Tendulkar himself. However, the story did not have a happy ending: the cricketer was dropped from the Mumbai Ranji team last year and snubbed at the IPL 2025 mega auctions in Jeddah. The batter struggled with discipline issues, and he later admitted that he had been in bad company during a difficult period. During this difficult period, Shaw revealed that very few people reached out to him, but one of them was his mentor, the Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, who refused to lose faith in him. In an interview News24, Shaw revealed that Sachin still believes in him and recently told him to come back to the right track. "Sachin sir knows about my journey. Arjun and I have been friends since we were 8-9 years old. We've played together, grown up together. Sir was also there sometimes. I had a word with him a little while ago too. Hardly 2 month ago. He was practicing at the MIG. And I was there too. I spoke to him then too. When things go awry and you drift away, you need that mentor, who can light a spark into you. He still believes in me. He said 'Prithvi, I still believe in you, and I'll continue to do so'. Because he has seen me grow up. Even today, he tells me 'Sahi track pe aa ja, jaise pehle tha' (Come back on the same track as earlier). Everything is possible in the next 13-14 years. So he believes in me and that means a lot," Shaw told the TV channel.
Hindustan Times
26-06-2025
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Sachin Tendulkar tells Prithvi Shaw 'wapas track pe aaja'; Master Blaster refuses to give up: 'I still believe in you'
The year was 2014. A 15-year-old Prithvi Shaw was bursting onto the scene. Two years into his teenage years, Shaw was scoring runs left, right and centre. Whichever tournament he played, Shaw set it on fire, to the extent that at such a young age, he was branded as the 'next Sachin Tendulkar' of India. Audacious, right? We'd think that too. But honestly, the child prodigy that he was, coming from humble beginnings, Shaw's potential put him on the road to greatness. In 2013, Shaw made headlines when he smashed 546 in a Harris Shield game, and four years later, he hit a century on his Ranji Trophy debut. Sachin Tendulkar hasn't given up on Prithvi Shaw(Twitter) And for the longest time, he was coming true to those expectations. At 18, Shaw, who led India to Under-19 World Cup win, a team which had Shubman Gill, Arshdeep Singh and Abhishek Sharma, all three of whom play for India. The same year, Shaw earned a call-up to the national team, and he took his promise even higher, scoring a century on Test debut against England. He even made the tour of Australia but following a freak injury in the practice match, Shaw was ruled out. Shaw's fortunes fluctuated, but he kept on returning to the Indian fold. Despite his infamous ban due to the use of a cough syrup, Shaw remained on the selectors' radar. Until something went terribly wrong last year. Shaw was dropped from Mumbai's Ranji Trophy team and went unsold in the IPL mega-auction. Once again, rumours of his indiscipline began to emerge. As Shaw admitted that his focus drifted away from cricket due to some bad company, very few people reached out to him, including the legendary Tendulkar. Tendulkar has been available for Shaw almost all the time. Having already share his valuable advice with him earlier, Shaw revealed that Sachin continues to stand by him, even in his dark phase. "Sachin sir knows about my journey. Arjun and I have been friends since we were 8-9 years old. We've played together, grown up together. Sir was also there sometimes. I had a word with him a little while ago too. Hardly 2 month ago. He was practicing at the MIG. And I was there too. I spoke to him then too. When things go awry and you drift away, you need that mentor, who can light a spark into you. He still believes in me. He said 'Prithvi, I still believe in you, and I'll continue to do so'. Because he has seen me grow up. Even today, he tells me 'Sahi track pe aa ja, jaise pehle tha' (Come back on the same track as earlier). Everything is possible in the next 13-14 years. So he believes in me and that means a lot," Shaw told News24 in an interview. Prithvi Shaw back to training hard Shaw last played for India in July of 2021, but remained in the reckoning until January 2022, when he was named in the squad for New Zealand T20Is but didn't get to play a game. Shaw has since turned to domestic cricket. He scored 379 against Assam in a Ranji Trophy match and even started off well for Northamptonshire in August of 2023, blasting 244 and following it up with another century. But after that is when the wheels started to fall off. He recently played in the Mumbai T20 league but just had one good innings to show for his effort. Shaw isn't willing to give up, though, and is back to training hard. He has lost weight and promises to be back to the shape he was in in 2018.
Time of India
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
Sarfaraz-khan: Latest News, Videos and Sarfaraz-khan Photos
An Indian cricketer, Sarfaraz Khan plays Uttar Pradesh in the domestic cricket and with the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League. Khan is a right-handed batsman and has represented the country in the Under-19 cricket team in the 2014 as well as 2016 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He is also credited with the maximum (7) 50+ score in the tournament history. Sarfaraz performed remarkably well in the IPL when he helped his team, Bangalore, to reach an imposing total of 200 after being in a neck to neck competition against the Rajasthan Royals. Son of a cricket coach, Sarfaraz made it big in the game when he broke the record for the highest score in the Harris Shield inter-school tournament at the age of 12.
