Former India opener Aakash Chopra has said that it is difficult to fight luck at times while sharing his thoughts on Prithvi Shaw’s recent injury.

Shaw sustained a knee injury while playing for Northamptonshire in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup 2023. The dashing right-hander was in red-hot form in the tournament, registering scores of 34, 26, 244 and 125* from four innings.

Shaw injured himself while fielding against Durham on August 13 and will be travelling back to India.

“It seemed like Prithvi Shaw had turned a corner. He had gone to play county cricket and was trying to do well there. He batted extremely well but now he has got a knee injury. When everything was going fine, he was scoring runs, he injured his knee and now he will be heading home,” said Chopra while speaking on his Youtube channel.

After an impressive start to his international career in 2018, Prithvi Shaw has fallen behind in the packing order. The last time he played for the country was back in July 2021 in a T20I game against Sri Lanka in Colombo.

Chopra went on to say that Shaw has experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows in his cricketing career so far, while insisting that it is difficult to fight luck sometimes.

“He is still young and has seen the highest of highs and lowest of lows at such a young age. He has opened for the Indian team, scored a century on debut as well, and after that, he has also been made to sit out in franchise cricket. He has seen everything. We had great expectations from Prithvi Shaw. It is difficult to fight luck at times,” he added.