Prithvi Shaw had a disastrous form in the first Test of the Australia Tour where he managed to score just 4 runs in both the innings combined. He was further dropped for all the matches.
Recently, he has been playing in Vijay Hazare Trophy. He is currently experiencing an incredible form after scoring a hundred and a double hundred in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Young opener Prithvi Shaw received another good piece of news on Monday when he was named by the Salil Ankola-led selection committee as the captain of the Mumbai team for the Vijay Hazare Trophy knockouts. Mumbai will be without three of their main players – regular skipper Shreyas Iyer, prolific Suryakumar Yadav and pacer Shardul Thakur, who will all be away on India duty for the T20I series against England in Ahmedabad.
Prithvi Shaw Helps Mumbai Reach Semi-Finals In Vijay Hazare Trophy
Mumbai were facing Saurashtra into Knockouts. Skipper Prithvi Shaw blazed his way to an unbeaten 185 off just 123 balls as Mumbai stormed into the semi-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy with a crushing nine-wicket win in the fourth quarter-final on Tuesday.
Opting to bat, Saurashtra mount on Samarth Vyas unbeaten 90 to post 284 for 5. It was then overshadowed by Shaw’s assaulting, as Mumbai chased the target in just 41.5 overs. Mumbai required 285 in chase and Shaw went on the offensive form as Mumbai scored 67 for no loss after nine overs. The right-hander did not spare any of the opposition bowlers as he hit 21 fours and seven sixes in his monstrous innings. Shaw smashed his third hundred in the tournament after slamming 105 not out against Delhi and 227 not out against Puducherry in the league stage. Prithvi Shaw is completely destructive for a while now.
Yashasvi Jaiswal on the other end helped Prithvi Shaw to go big while he was capitalising on the wicket. Yashasvi Jaiswal went on score 75 runs and by the time Jaydev Unadkat got Jaiswal’s wicket, Mumbai’s score was already 238 runs. Aditya Tare later scored 20 runs with Prithvi Shaw and Mumbai had an easy win at the end.
Saurashtra 284/5: (Samarth Vyas 90 not out, Chirag Jani 53 not out; Shams Mulani 2/51; Tanush Kotian 1/30) lost to Mumbai 285/1: (Prithvi Shaw 185 not out, Yashasvi Jaiswal 75; Jaydev Unadkat 1/52) by 9 wickets.
Karnataka, Gujarat, Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh have qualified for the Semifinals. Mumbai will be facing Karnataka in the semi-finals while Gujarat faces Uttar Pradesh. Both matches are scheduled for March 11th, 2021.
