Prithvi Shaw

- He was supposed to be the next big thing in Indian cricket but injuries, form and off-field controversies have hurt Prithvi Shaw's career. After not getting a bid in IPL 2025, Shaw got a late deal with DC at the IPL 2026 auction in the accelerated round for INR 75 lakh, the only team that he has been with in his seven-year IPL career.

- Shaw was bought for INR 1.2 crore by Delhi Daredevils (now Capitals) at the IPL 2018 auction around the same time that he was leading India to the Under-19 World Cup title. Shaw scored a 44-ball 62 in just his second IPL game in a season where he struck at 153.12.

- The 2021 season was Shaw's best in the IPL, as he smashed 479 runs in 15 innings with four fifties and finished the season as the seventh-highest run-getter. As a result, Shaw was one of four players retained by Capitals (for INR 7.5 crore) ahead of the IPL 2022 mega auction.

- Shaw is just one of two batters in IPL history to hit six fours in an over. He achieved the feat in a game against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) off Shivam Mavi in 2021. But Shaw had a difficult time for three seasons between 2022 and 2024, which led to him not being picked in IPL 2025.

Prithvi Shaw shot to prominence as a 14-year old when he scored 546 off 330 balls, an innings that contained 85 fours and five sixes, for his school Rizvi Springfield in the Harris Shield, an age-group cricket tournament in Mumbai in 2013. Shaw's innings was then the highest score in school cricket.

In November 2016, Shaw was part of the India Under-19 squad that won the youth Asia Cup in Sri Lanka. Two months later, he made his Ranji Trophy debut for Mumbai in the semi-final against Tamil Nadu and scored a second-innings century that led his team to victory.

In September 2017, at 17, Shaw became the youngest player to score a century on Duleep Trophy debut, a record previously held by Sachin Tendulkar. He was then named captain of the Under-19 World Cup squad, a tournament India went on to win. During the tournament, he was sold to Delhi Daredevils for INR 1.2 crore (USD 187,500 approx) in the 2018 IPL auction.

Given an opportunity after their IPL campaign flagged midway, Shaw impressed head coach Ricky Ponting with his fearless batting against the new ball; ending with 245 runs in nine innings at a strike rate of 153.12. However, it was his performances for India A, both in England and at home against West Indies A and South Africa A, that gave wings to his India aspirations.

He pipped Mayank Agarwal in the race to be India's back-up opener when he earned a call-up for the fourth and fifth Tests in England in 2018, and finally became India's 293rd Test cricketer in Rajkot against West Indies in November 2018 after India's selectors ran out of patience with Shikhar Dhawan. Shaw marked the occasion by becoming the youngest Indian Test centurion on debut, and just the second-youngest Test centurion for India after Sachin Tendulkar.