{"id":79128,"date":"2025-08-20T02:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79128\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T02:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:35:10","slug":"i-dont-mind-starting-from-scratch-again-says-prithvi-shaw-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79128\/","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t mind starting from scratch again, says Prithvi Shaw | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I CHENNAI: Prithvi Shaw was Shubman Gill\u2019s captain in the U-19 World Cup that India won in New Zealand in 2018. Seven years down the line, Gill is on the cusp of the Indian senior team\u2019s all-format captaincy while Shaw, once touted as a \u2018boy wonder\u2019 and the \u2018next big thing\u2019, is trying to make a comeback into the first-class fold after losing his way. Question marks over fitness, form and discipline took a huge toll on the opener as he got dropped from the Mumbai Ranji squad last year and went unsold in the IPL 2025 auction.Now he is back in the domestic scene where it all began, this time turning out for Maharashtra instead of Mumbai. Shaw, who had scored a ton on his India Test debut, announced his comeback in familiar fashion with a well-paced century (111, 141b; 15×4, 1×6) against Chhattisgarh on Day Two of the Buchi Babu tournament here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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The 25-year-old sounded optimistic about the upcoming domestic season and said he was \u2018confident\u2019 of making a comeback. \u201cI don\u2019t mind starting from scratch again because I\u2019ve seen many ups and downs in my life. I\u2019ve been up there and been down there. I\u2019ve also come back up there. So, everything is possible. I\u2019m confident of myself, my work ethic. And my family has been the biggest support in my tough times. Hopefully, I\u2019ll get back there soon. I hope that this season goes really well for me as well as for my team,\u201d said Shaw. During his knock, as he entered the nervous nineties, the right-hander danced down the track to launch a stunning six. Shaw said he was going back to basics and taking each day as it comes. \u201cI don\u2019t want to change anything (from the past few years). It wasn\u2019t anything like that. I feel I just went back to basics, doing the things I used to do in my Under-19 days, which got me into the Indian team. I\u2019m just doing all that stuff back again. I\u2019m trying to be myself and trying not to be on social media or any of those kinds of distractions. It\u2019s kind of peaceful when I\u2019m not using it.\u201d Shaw has started to get his belief back. \u201cI feel I have never lost. It\u2019s always about learning. Earlier, I was trying to think about the future and I don\u2019t think it worked for me. So now what I\u2019m trying to do is go day by day. I try to be in the present; I\u2019m that kind of person right now.\u201d When asked if he received any messages or calls from the cricket fraternity during his \u2018tough times\u2019, pat came the reply with a smile: \u201cNo one.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s fine…I don\u2019t want anyone\u2019s sympathy. I\u2019ve seen this before as well. I\u2019ve had my family\u2019s support and my friends who were there with me when I was not really well mentally. Obviously, people are busy doing their work and they have their family as well. So it didn\u2019t bother me at all because I had my family and then I was practising. I was in that zone where I was doing everything alone and it was really good for me. It was working for me.\u201d Having steered Maharashtra to 217, Shaw could well have stayed back in the Guru Nanak pavilion, but after a quick massage, he chose to field for the last five overs. He said he has also been focusing on his fitness in the build-up to the season. \u201cThese two-three months, I had my trainer come personally and train me, and I\u2019ve got a dietician as well who plans all my meals. All this over the last three-four months has really changed me physically and mentally. And maybe it can be seen on the field,\u201d said Shaw, who was running briskly between the wickets earlier in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHENNAI: Prithvi Shaw was Shubman Gill\u2019s captain in the U-19 World Cup that India won in New Zealand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[40273,1721,40274,40270,40271,101,40272,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-79128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-buchi-babu-tournament","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-first-class-cricket","11":"tag-prithvi-shaw-comeback","12":"tag-shubman-gill-captaincy","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-u-19-world-cup","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79128","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=79128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}