Web Desk(October 05, 2018): Teenager Prithvi Shaw became the youngest Indian to make a century on his Test debut on day one of the first Test against West Indies in Rajkot.
The 18-year-old from Mumbai has had to wait for his Test debut, held back by Indian selectors looking for the right time to blood a cricketer who has already re-written the Indian cricket’s record books.
But after scoring the first hundred of his Test career in his first innings – off just 99 balls – they might find it impossible to leave him out in future.
Since scoring 546 off just 330 balls as a 14-year-old for his school, Rizvi Springfield, in India’s Harris Shield in 2003, the diminutive Mumbai sensation has been identified as a Test player in waiting.
Now that wait is at an end, he appears in a hurry to make up for lost time, despite still being a month shy of his 19th birthday.
