6,6,6,6,6,6,4,4,4…. 28 fours, 11 sixes, Prithvi Shaw hoisted the flag for India after going to England, created history by playing a stormy inning of 244 runs in ODI.

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|04-10-2024

Prithvi Shaw: Indian cricket team's young opening batsman Prithvi Shaw is a talented player and he has proved this in domestic cricket as well as international cricket. In this series, he has now gone to England and planted his flag.

Prithvi is considered an aggressive batsman and that is why he has been successful in playing big innings in ODI cricket many times. In such a situation, he created a ruckus in England and played an inning of 244 runs.

Prithvi Shaw had scored a double century

Actually, Prithvi Shaw is among the few players who have scored more than one double century in List A cricket. However, he is currently out of Team India and the reason for this is also his personal life.

Prithvi once went to England and scored a double century. In fact, in the 2023 England Domestic ODI Cup, Shaw, while playing for Northamptonshire, played an innings of 244 runs on 153 balls against Somerset. During this period, 28 fours and 11 sixes were hit from his bat.

Prithvi Shaw

Northamptonshire had registered victory in the match

If we talk about this match, in this match, Northamptonshire, batting first, had scored a mountain like 415 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs on the basis of the double century innings of Shaw (Prithvi Shaw).

After this, while chasing the target, Somerset's team was all out for 328 runs in 45.1 overs and with this, Northamptonshire won the match by 87 runs. This was Shaw's second double century in his List A career.

Prithvi Shaw's List A career

If we look at the List A career of Prithvi Shaw, his performance has been excellent but due to poor fitness and other controversies, he is out of Team India and is not being given a chance.

Shaw has played a total of 65 List A matches in his career so far, in which he has scored 3399 runs at an average of 55.72. During this period, he has scored 10 centuries and 14 half-centuries. The biggest surprise is that his strike rate during this period has also been around 126.

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