West Indies legend Ian Bishop has come up with few suggestions for Prithvi Shaw and said that the latter must go back to domestic cricket to fine-tune his skills.
Prithvi Shaw’s career has been a roller coaster ride, After leading India U-19 to a World cup win in 2018 the 21-year-old Mumbai batsman made his Test debut with a bang and hammered a century against West Indies.
However, after his eye-catching performance on debut, he missed out on some matches due to an injury he suffered in Australia on 2018-19 tour and then suffered a ban from the BCCI for failing a drug test.
Following COVID 19 pandemic break Shaw’s fortunes have taken a tumble as he failed drastically in IPL 2020 in UAE and then his problems got compounded by his failures with the moving ball in Australia.
Amidst his failure, Shaw was dropped from the side after the first Test of the recently concluded Border-Gavaskar trophy and was replaced by Shubman Gill, who impressed everyone with his elegant stroke-play and kept his spot ahead of Shaw for the England home Test matches.
Reflecting on Shaw’s failures the cricketer turned commentator, Ian Bishop, refrained from suggesting any technical adjustments to help Shaw but said only scoring runs in domestic circle won't help his case.
“I am not the batting technician or guru who can tell Shaw what to do and how to fix his deficiency. There are those much more qualified to do that. It is not simply about going back to domestic cricket and scoring tons of runs. Shaw scores high-volume runs domestically anyway,” Ian Bishop told Sportstar.
Bishop, 53, further said that Shaw needs to take advice from someone on how he can plug loopholes in his batting.
“It must be that someone can help him to adjust or fine-tune the deficiency which has been identified, allow him to get comfortable with it, and then for him to get acclimated to it by using the modification to continue scoring domestically and regain confidence and form,” he said.
Prithvi Shaw has a terrific first-class record where he has amassed 2263 runs in 25 first-class matches at an average of 51.43 and strike rate of more than 80.
(Sportstar Inputs)
