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Prithvi Shaw - 13 year old prodigy from Mumbai

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Zol is not from Mumbai. Sarfaraz Khan and Armaan Zafar is also there. Sarfaraz Khan was the highest run getter n just concluded Vinoo Mankad trophy.
If these guys develop the right way, we could have a BEAST batting lineup in the next 10 years.
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Prithvi Shaw: The prodigious run-machine NEW DELHI: Rizvi-Springfield skipper Prithvi Shaw, who slammed world record 546 runs against St. Francis D'Assisi in the Harris Shield tournament match on Wednesday, has a reputation of being a run-machine and a gritty performer in high-pressure games. The 15-year-old right-hander is one of the most promising talents on the 22-yards. Prithvi is also captain of the Mumbai under-16 team. His innings of 546 came in 367 minutes and took 330 balls. He scored 85 fours and five sixes on the way to breaking Armaan Jaffer's previous Harris Shield record of 498. One of the first people to recognized Prithvi's potential and predicted his rise is Julian Wood — a former English county cricketer and the founder JW cricket academy. "Five years ago, we were playing a match at the MIG. They put him to bat and he scored 73 against us and I said this is a very, very special boy. I met his father and I told him I will sponsor him. You don't see talent like that everyday at such a young age. I told him he should come to England one day," said Wood a few months ago. Despite trying to get Prithvi a stint in England for a couple of years, it was not until eight months back that Wood succeeded. Prithvi has played for English county club Gloucestershire's second team, which is just below first-class cricket. It was not the first time the teenager has played in England as he spent three months in Manchester last year. "I am a professional and when I see talent I know it. If he keeps up the work, in five years he will arguably be the best batsman in the world," Wood had said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/top-stories/Prithvi-Shaw-The-prodigious-run-machine/articleshow/26101197.cms
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Prithvi Shaw: Another Sachin Tendulkar in making? Mumbai: 15-year-old Mumbai teenager Prithvi Shaw created a national record today, hitting an astonishing 546 playing for Rizvi Springfield against St Francis D'Assisi Borivali in an inter-school match for the prestigious Harris Shield here today. Touted as one of the bright young prospects emerging out of Mumbai school of batsmanship, the state U-16 captain Prithvi hit 85 boundaries and five sixes in the match played at the Azad Maidan. In the process, Shaw became the first schoolboy cricketer to hit a 500 plus score in an official inter-school match. Prithvi eclipsed his senior schoolmate and former India opener Wasim Jaffer's nephew Arman's score of 498, which he scored a few years back. Having bowled out St Francis for 92, Shaw was unbeaten on 257 off 166 balls yesterday and smashed another 289 runs on the day. It was Harris Shield, which first brought Sachin Tendulkar into national prominence after his world record partnership of 664 with Vinod Kambli that was broken a few years back. The previous highest by an Indian in any form of registered competitive cricket is 515 by Dadabhoy Havewala for BB and CI Railway vs St. Xavier's College at Mumbai during 1933-34 season. This is the third highest score if one goes by all the registered scorecards available worldwide since the inception of competitive cricket. As per available information, AEJ Collins scored 628 not out in a competitive match in England in 1899 and CJ Eady struck 566 in another competitive match in 1901. There has been a buzz about Prithvi's immense talent in the Mumbai cricket circuit for quite some time. He also went on a cricket scholarship to the United Kingdom where he had trained at the Gloucestershire academy and also played some practice matches for their second team. His personal coach is Raju Pathak and father Pankaj Shaw has been everything for the boy, who lost his mother when he was only four years old. Father Pankaj, who is a Bengali by birth, has a modest income but he has tried his best to give his son best of facilities. That he was talented also helped as he got scholarships from various associations. From the age of eight, he used to travel around 70 kms from suburban Virar to be in time for his coaching camp and matches in Mumbai Maidans. With performances like these, there is a possibility that the junior selection committee under the chairmanship of Connor Williams will be seriously thinking about Shaw with the Under-19 World Cup in mind next year.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/131120/sports-cricket/article/prithvi-shaw-another-sachin-tendulkar-making
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ill two years ago, Prithvi Shaw had to shun the pillow by 4.30 every morning to catch the 6.09 local from Virar to get to the MIG ground in Bandra for his practice sessions. His exploits have brought him closer to the city, but the 13-year-old still bears the responsibility of being the sole earning member of the Shaw family. Prithvi's mother died when he was four. By then, the boy was already a show-stealer with the bat. "Crowds used to gather at the municipality ground in Virar to watch the little kid play fluent shots against these big boys," recalls Prithvi's father Pankaj. Pankaj, who ran a small business of readymade garments, didn't know enough cricket to coach his son, but he knew he couldn't afford to just sit back. He enrolled the boy at the MIG club in Bandra but as Prithvi's star continued to rise, the senior Shaw was forced to make a tough call. "We had to travel to Mumbai every day to ensure that Prithvi got the best training and opportunities. It was getting difficult for me to handle both his cricket and my business. So I had to dig deep and shut the business down in 2006," says Pankaj. Pankaj continued to accompany his son to Bandra and back every day. His mornings were spent sitting outside his school, while in the evenings, he would watch from the sidelines for hours as Prithvi trained, before escorting him back home. In 2010, the young right-hander caught the eye of retired Mumbai left-arm spinner Nilesh Kulkarni, whose sports management company signed up the teenager for a sum of Rs 3 lakh a year. The same year, a corporator offered the Shaws an apartment in Santacruz, where they now live. Prithvi, who is now in Manchester as part of an exchange programme, has already mastered the cricketing conditions there and has scored a debut ton for Cheadle Hulme School in a Division 'A' contest. "People come up to me and say they see Sachin Tendulkar in me. They compare me with God! It is in my best interest to ignore these comparisons and focus on my batting," he says, with a maturity far beyond his age. But behind the chutzpah and self-confidence, however, is the real Prithvi, all of 13, who loves to watch cartoons and insists that his father treat him to Chinese food every time he scores a century. ~
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He should play outside the subcontinent whenever he gets the chance. Best way to become an all conditions batsman. All the best to him.
He has played for Gloucestershire second team

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