17-Year-Old Takes Mumbai To Final

    • rohit.david@timesgroup.com
    • Publish Date: Jan 9 2017 4:17PM
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    • Updated Date: Jan 9 2017 4:17PM
17-Year-Old Takes Mumbai To Final

A century on first-class debut by teenage batsman Prithvi Shaw has taken defending champions Mumbai into the final of the 2016-17 Ranji Trophy, with a target of 251 achieved for the loss of four wickets on day five of the semi-final against Tamil Nadu in Rajkot. This is Mumbai's 46th Ranji final, and they will now target their 42nd title when they meet Gujarat at Indore's Holkar Stadium on January 10.

 
Q What keeps you calm and composed on the wicket for so long?
I generally do meditation and this helped me to have immense concentration at the wicket. Not experimenting much helped me get the huge score.
 
Q You have played in England, how has that experience changed you?
I played for the Gloucestershire’s second team and the pitches were quite different. The wicket was hard, ball was coming on the bat and it was a seamers paradise, but still I managed to get runs.
 
Q When did you start playing cricket?
When I was five years old like every kid in India, I also took up the cricket bat and played in streets. One day, I saw Sachin batting on television and fans cheering for him at the point I told myself, that I want to bat like him.
 
Q The world is saying that you are the next Sachin, what do you have to say?
He’s not comparable with anyone. There can be only one Sachin. I really don’t know why people are correlating me with him.
 
Q Have you met Sachin? What did he tell you?
I met him once and he told me to always play your natural game and never change your game for any bowler. 
 
Q How do you prepare yourself before a match?
We have normally have team meetings where the coach tells us about the weakness and strengths of our opponents and what’ll be our game plan. Besides, the team practices in the nets and our strategy is not to give our wickets cheaply.
 
 
Did you know?
Aged 17 years and 57 days, Shaw scored 120 off 175 deliveries in the second innings to join Sachin Tendulkar, Amol Muzumdar, Ajinkya Rahane, Jatin Paranjpe and Sameer Dighe, among others, as Mumbai batsmen to score centuries on first-class debut. He reached the landmark off his 152nd delivery faced, with a single into the offside and in doing so, became the 14th player to score a hundred on Ranji Trophy debut.

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