{"id":202341,"date":"2025-10-15T17:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202341\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:59:16","slug":"prithvi-shaws-prayers-go-unanswered-out-for-an-embarrassing-duck-in-ranji-opener-as-maharashtra-suffer-horror-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202341\/","title":{"rendered":"Prithvi Shaw&#8217;s prayers go unanswered; out for an embarrassing duck in Ranji opener as Maharashtra suffer horror collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Updated on: Oct 15, 2025 12:46 pm IST <\/p>\n<p>    Prithvi Shaw was dismissed for a four-ball duck in Maharashtra&#8217;s match against Kerala     <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cricket\/players\/prithvi-shaw-66812\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Prithvi Shaw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prithvi Shaw<\/a>&#8216;s pre-season efforts and preparation amounted to nothing as both flopped in his <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/ranji-trophy\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Ranji Trophy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ranji Trophy<\/a> opener on Tuesday. The out-of-favour India opener was dismissed for a four-ball duck in Maharashtra&#8217;s match against Kerala at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/shaw_duck_1760512535422_1760512544352.jpg\" alt=\"Prithvi Shaw was dismissed for a four-ball duck\" title=\"Prithvi Shaw was dismissed for a four-ball duck\"\/>   Prithvi Shaw was dismissed for a four-ball duck    <\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the season, Shaw shared an Instagram post performing prayers and a pooja, captioning it, \u201cPrayers that calm my heart and guide my path.\u201d Yet, his Ranji Trophy debut for Maharashtra got off to a futile start, as he edged a fuller delivery that seamed back, hitting him plumb in front for MD Nidheesh\u2019s first wicket for Kerala.<\/p>\n<p>The dismissal was a blip in his otherwise impressive start for Maharashtra earlier in the domestic season. The out-of-favour India opener made his first appearance for Maharashtra in the Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament, where he scored 111, 1 and 66. This was followed by a sensational knock of 181 runs against his former team, Mumbai, in a three-day practice match at the MCA Stadium in Pune last week before the start of the Ranji Trophy 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>However, the triple-figure knock was marred by his heated argument with Musheer Khan, Sarfaraz Khan&#8217;s brother, during which he even swung his bat in an attempt to hit him. Although he later apologised to his former teammate.<\/p>\n<p>Following Shaw&#8217;s dismissal, Nidheesh dismissed No. 3 Siddhesh Veer off the very next delivery, while Nedumankuzhy Basil got rid of fellow opener Arshin Kulkarni on the first ball of the next over for a duck and then returned to end captain Ankit Bawne&#8217;s resistance, also for a duck as Maharashtra incurred a dubious start in the opening game, managing just five runs for the loss of four wickets in 3.2 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Musheer, who opened for Mumbai in their opener against Jammu and Kashmir, was nipped out by Auqib Nabi, who was at the centre of Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s prolific run to the knockouts in the 2024\/25 season, for a duck as well. <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/story_trending@2x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/>           <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"Home_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"\/\" data-vars-event-cta=\"News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cricket\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"Cricket_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"\/cricket\" data-vars-event-cta=\"Cricket News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cricket News<\/a> \/ Prithvi Shaw&#8217;s prayers go unanswered; out for an embarrassing duck in Ranji opener as Maharashtra suffer horror collapse   <\/p>\n<p> See Less <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated on: Oct 15, 2025 12:46 pm IST Prithvi Shaw was dismissed for a four-ball duck in Maharashtra&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,34747,26480,45399,48672,87656,8887,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-202341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-maharashtra","10":"tag-mumbai","11":"tag-prithvi-shaw","12":"tag-ranji-trophy","13":"tag-ranji-trophy-match","14":"tag-sarfaraz-khan","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}