A new star zooms up the horizon like a meteorite.
Shaw becomes youngest Indian to hit a debut Test century.

Prithvi Shaw brings up his maiden Test Century. At 18 years 329 days,he has now become the youngest Indian to score a century in his first Test match at Rajkot vs West Indies.

Prithvi Pankaj Shaw (born 9 November 1999) is an Indian cricketer and former India national under 19 cricket team captain. HE played for MIG Cricket Club in Mumbai and was the captain of Rizvi Springfield High School and the Mumbai under 16 team. In November 2013 he had set the highest score by any batsman in any organised form of cricket since 1901 when he hit 546 in a Harris Shield elite division match until the record was surpassed by Pranav Dhanawade on 4 January 2016.

Shaw is a right hand batsman and right arm off spin bowler - a cricketing prodigy repeatedly compared with Sachin Tendulkar.His first coach Pingulkar says "Prithvi Shaw came to me when he was around three years old ! No one was taking him in Mumbai,saying he was very young but we enrolled him as our first student at the Golden Star Academy.I was impressed with his drives at that young age."

Shaw was a central figure in the documentary film Beyond All Boundaries.He opted to travel to England twice to further his cricketing education.

He has earned a deal worth Rs 36 lakh with SG, which has been endorsed by stalwarts like Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag

He made his first-class debut for Mumbai in the semi-finals of the 2016–17 Ranji Trophy on 1 January 2017.He scored a century in the second innings and was man of the match.He earned another distinction by scoring a century in his Duleep Trophy debut and equalled the record held by Sachin Tendulkar who had scored for the first time a century each in his debut matches of Ranji and Duleep Trophy.In December 2017 he was named captain of India's squad for the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.He led India in the final where they beat Australia by 8 wickets to win their fourth Under-19 World Cup. Widely tipped to become a full fledged India international he made his Test debut today vs WI as an opener . a position he excels in.

Prithvi Shaw is certainly a cricketer destined for greatness.

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