New Delhi: Indian cricket team’s young player Prithvi Shaw is celebrating his 23rd birthday today. He has made many big records in his short career. Prithvi Shaw has won the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in the year 2017-18 under his captaincy. Prithvi was given a chance in the two-Test series against West Indies. He already completed his century in the first innings of the match off 99 balls. With this, he became the 15th such batsman of the Indian team, who scored a century in the debut test match. Prithvi scored 134 runs and also won the Man of the Match award.
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Prithvi Shaw, who is celebrating his 23rd birthday today, was born on 1999 in Thane, Maharashtra. Prithvi is originally from Gaya in Bihar. But, his father had come to Maharashtra even before his birth. The journey of Prithvi Shaw joining the Indian team has been very painful. Those times there were great challenges to be faced. But, he never gave up.
The childhood of Prithvi (Happy Birthday Prithvi Shaw) was spent in Virar. At the age of 3, he started playing with plastic balls at home. At the same time his father recognized Prithvi’s talent and put him in the cricket academy. But, the academy was in Bandra. That’s why Prithvi’s father used to go to Bandra training every day from him. For this, father Pankaj used to wake up Prithvi at 4 in the morning. This cycle continued for years and years.
Prithvi’s father had a clothing store. But, he even sold his shop for the career of his son. Prithvi also felt the sacrifice of his father. He was focused on his career since childhood. During this he saw many ups and downs. Money was tight. But with every struggle his dream of becoming a cricketer got stronger.
Prithvi Shaw (Happy Birthday Prithvi Shaw) lost his mother at the age of just four. After this his father Pankaj Shaw raised him alone. He also had to face problems for his son, but he raised his son very well, as well as fulfilled the dream of the earth. However, during this time, Prithvi also worked hard and did not let the father’s struggle go in vain.
Prithvi Shaw made headlines for the first time when he scored 546 runs in 330 balls against St. Francis while playing for Rizvi Springfield in the Harris Shield tournament in 2013. Prithvi had hit 85 fours and 5 sixes during this innings. His innings has been very memorable. Even today people praise his innings a lot.
Prithvi (Happy Birthday Prithvi Shaw) has performed very well in domestic cricket. Seeing this performance, he got Prithvi Shaw a place in the Under-19 team and under his captaincy, he made the Indian team the champion of the Under-19 World Cup. India won the title by 8 wickets by defeating Australia in the final of the 2018 Under-19 World Cup.
After a spectacular performance in the Under-19 World Cup, Prithvi Shaw also entered the IPL. He was bought by Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals) in the 2018 auction for Rs 1.2 crore. In IPL too, Prithvi has done many amazing things. He has had a very good performance in the IPL as well. In his very first IPL, Prithvi equaled Sanju Samson’s record of scoring the youngest half-century.