PRITHVI SHAW

18-year-old Prithvi Shaw has had a bumper start to his First-Class career with 1418 runs in 14 matches with an average of 56.72 and 7 centuries with a best of 188. Shaw is a child prodigy who has been compared with Sachin Tendulkar at the same age.

Shaw has a natural technique to take on the bowlers and score runs at the top. He led the U19 Indian team to the World Cup title win recently and since then has been on a roll with a brilliant start to his IPL career as well. In the last Ranji season, Shaw scored 537 runs in 6 matches with a best of 123 and 3 centuries to his name.

He recently played for India A in England and in the four FC matches has had scores of 188, 62 and 136 to his name. India is not known for blooding players at such young age, but when they have done, the players have been exceptional talents like Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Yuvraj Singh.  

Shaw can easily be named in the list of such exceptional talents and if India wants to have an opener for a long-term, Shaw is the answer to those questions and needs to be given a chance right now.