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Explosive batter Prithvi Shaw once again has shown everyone what he is capable of. On Sunday (March 31) night in the 13th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL), he smashed 43 runs off 27 balls against Chennai Super Kings (CSK). Prithvi was playing his first game of the season; he opened the innings with David Warner and made an opening partnership of 93 runs. The Delhi Capitals (DC) built their innings on this partnership and posted 191 on the board. CSK managed to score only 171, and DC won their first game of the season by 20 runs.
Prithvi Shaw, who is always in the limelight because of his fitness and form, showed his capability, giving a very promising start to DC. When he is in full flow, he is one of the most exciting batters to watch among Indian youngsters. After the win, in a conversation with the IPL official website, he said management wants him to play aggressively, but he does not take this as pressure; he takes this as a challenge and tries his best.
"I don't know about this year but obviously during the IPL, they expect me to whack the ball, whack every ball. I don't take it as pressure or anything. I take it as a challenge and try to do my best. Felt good to play white-ball after so long. It was a good atmosphere," Shaw said.
He further said that after players come back from an injury, the hunger to perform is always there, and you want to hit every ball in the IPL. He also mentioned he was playing smartly.
"After coming out of injury, of course, that hunger is there. You want to middle the ball and IPL is that kind of a game, where you middle the ball, you know it's your day. Usually, it's about trying and hitting everything but today I was playing smartly because in 4 overs we were 24," said Shaw
Shaw missed the opening two matches for DC
Prithvi Shaw was out of the first two games for DC. But he said that DC management made him believe he will get to play. He said he was quite really happy with the management. He was confident when the opportunity came, he would do his best.
"When I didn't get to play the first two games, they were telling me that you will get an opportunity. We are just trying to do some new stuff and to be honest, I was really happy with it. I just knew that once the opportunity came, I'll do my best," Shaw said.
Prithvi Shaw's IPL career
Prithvi Shaw made his IPL debut for Delhi Daredevils (now Capitals) in 2018 and since then has been part of the franchise. Despite being in bad form in 2023, DC didn’t release him from the squad. In 2023, he played only 8 matches and scored 106 runs with a fifty. In 2021, he was one of the highest run-getters for DC; he scored 479 runs from 15 matches. In a total of 72 matches in the IPL, Shaw has made 1737 runs at an average of 24.12.
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