This story was once first published in Mumbai Mirror on February 14, 2019.
Mumbai’s batting prodigy Prithvi Shaw just lately underwent a counselling consultation with Sachin Tendulkar at the latter’s Bandra place of dwelling to lend a hand regain the focus that catapulted the 19-year-old into Team India last October.
Shaw is hailed as the brightest batting talent to emerge in international cricket in the last 10 years, such a lot in order that he was once an automated selection for the outlet batsman’s slot for the tour to Australia. A freak ankle injury prevented him from enjoying even a single tournament Down Under, but something worse came about alongside.
Even as Virat Kohli’s staff went directly to win a Test collection in Australia for the first time, there were whispers of the younger batting sensation now not doing sufficient to regain complete health. Such talks turned shriller when Shaw returned house after the second one Test in Australia. Apart from talks of him now not taking note of health, rumours started doing the rounds about the younger man selecting up certain habits that are frowned upon.
While this may increasingly, or would possibly not, discover a mention in the obligatory report that the staff manager submits to the BCCI after each and every collection, Mirror has learnt that Shaw was once given a pep talk via the senior teammates in Australia itself, emphasising on the need to handle the razzmatazz that comes along with the celebrity of international cricket.
Having noticed many prodigies waste their talent and now not completing with careers they must have carved out, those just about Shaw determined he will have to have a consultation with Tendulkar, himself a teenaged international cricketer who did not step out of line even once in his 22-year occupation.
Considered an epitome of correct public behaviour and staying focussed on the job, even in the face of extreme crisis such as the match-fixing controversy and a spat with coach Greg Chappell, Tendulkar spoke to Shaw on the challenges fashionable cricketers face, how easiest to take care of them, and the need to block the whole lot out to focus on the job.
The intervention of Tendulkar may change into the most efficient thing to have took place to Shaw, who has the potential to guide the Indian batting once the present stalwarts retire. Indian cricket itself has many examples of unfulfilled promise. Mumbai’s personal Vinod Kambli, Karnataka’s wicketkeeper batsman Sadanand Vishwanath, the prodigious left-arm spinner Maninder Singh, and the extremely rated leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan… there’s a could-have-been story alongside each and every good fortune saga.
While Tendulkar didn’t want to remark on the consultation, Shaw’s father Pankaj, who raised the boy singlehandedly after his wife died when Shaw was once simply 4 years previous, most well-liked now not to talk about his son’s occupation. When requested about the status of his injury, he simply said, “You should be knowing why he is not enjoying.”
The BCCI, in the meantime, is hoping for a quick turnaround in Shaw’s fortunes as he's indubitably a find of the last decade. Such self assurance stems from Shaw’s efficiency in his debut Test collection, against West Indies at house, where he blasted a hundred and a halfcentury to complete with a median of 118.50. Now, he is not even a part of the India A staff. The Board resources said that he has started batting at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore, and with India’s next Test collection six months away, there’s each and every probability the boy will come again stronger.
While there is not any news of Shaw enjoying in the Indian Premier League this season, he's scheduled to attend an authentic sponsor match at Hyderabad next month.
Mumbai’s batting prodigy Prithvi Shaw just lately underwent a counselling consultation with Sachin Tendulkar at the latter’s Bandra place of dwelling to lend a hand regain the focus that catapulted the 19-year-old into Team India last October.
Shaw is hailed as the brightest batting talent to emerge in international cricket in the last 10 years, such a lot in order that he was once an automated selection for the outlet batsman’s slot for the tour to Australia. A freak ankle injury prevented him from enjoying even a single tournament Down Under, but something worse came about alongside.
Even as Virat Kohli’s staff went directly to win a Test collection in Australia for the first time, there were whispers of the younger batting sensation now not doing sufficient to regain complete health. Such talks turned shriller when Shaw returned house after the second one Test in Australia. Apart from talks of him now not taking note of health, rumours started doing the rounds about the younger man selecting up certain habits that are frowned upon.
While this may increasingly, or would possibly not, discover a mention in the obligatory report that the staff manager submits to the BCCI after each and every collection, Mirror has learnt that Shaw was once given a pep talk via the senior teammates in Australia itself, emphasising on the need to handle the razzmatazz that comes along with the celebrity of international cricket.
Having noticed many prodigies waste their talent and now not completing with careers they must have carved out, those just about Shaw determined he will have to have a consultation with Tendulkar, himself a teenaged international cricketer who did not step out of line even once in his 22-year occupation.
Considered an epitome of correct public behaviour and staying focussed on the job, even in the face of extreme crisis such as the match-fixing controversy and a spat with coach Greg Chappell, Tendulkar spoke to Shaw on the challenges fashionable cricketers face, how easiest to take care of them, and the need to block the whole lot out to focus on the job.
The intervention of Tendulkar may change into the most efficient thing to have took place to Shaw, who has the potential to guide the Indian batting once the present stalwarts retire. Indian cricket itself has many examples of unfulfilled promise. Mumbai’s personal Vinod Kambli, Karnataka’s wicketkeeper batsman Sadanand Vishwanath, the prodigious left-arm spinner Maninder Singh, and the extremely rated leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan… there’s a could-have-been story alongside each and every good fortune saga.
While Tendulkar didn’t want to remark on the consultation, Shaw’s father Pankaj, who raised the boy singlehandedly after his wife died when Shaw was once simply 4 years previous, most well-liked now not to talk about his son’s occupation. When requested about the status of his injury, he simply said, “You should be knowing why he is not enjoying.”
The BCCI, in the meantime, is hoping for a quick turnaround in Shaw’s fortunes as he's indubitably a find of the last decade. Such self assurance stems from Shaw’s efficiency in his debut Test collection, against West Indies at house, where he blasted a hundred and a halfcentury to complete with a median of 118.50. Now, he is not even a part of the India A staff. The Board resources said that he has started batting at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore, and with India’s next Test collection six months away, there’s each and every probability the boy will come again stronger.
While there is not any news of Shaw enjoying in the Indian Premier League this season, he's scheduled to attend an authentic sponsor match at Hyderabad next month.
Prithvi Shaw gets a pep talk from Sachin Tendulkar
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