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Mumbai: The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has brushed off the emotional outburst suffered by Prithvi Shaw after he was left out of the Vijay Hazare Trophy squad, asserting that the temperamental batsman has regularly flouted disciplinary rules and is an “enemy of himself”.
A senior MC official, while speaking to PTI, claimed that the team was “sometimes forced to hide him” on the field due to his poor fitness, discipline and attitude.
Shaw expressed his frustration at not being selected in the 16-member squad for the Vijay Hazare Trophy in a social media post a few days ago after being part of the title-winning Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy campaign.
“In the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, we were playing with 10 players as we had to hide Prithvi Shaw. The ball was passing close to him and he could barely reach it,” said the official, who requested anonymity.
“Even while batting, we could see that he was having difficulty getting to the ball. His fitness, discipline and attitude are bad and it’s very simple, there can’t be different rules for different players,” he said.
He added: “Even the senior players in the team are starting to complain about his behavior now.”
During the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Shaw regularly missed training sessions after turning up at the team hotel at “six in the morning” and being out most of the night.
The official said the youngster had defended himself through Sign Shaw, who had attracted a lot of attention for his off-field activities and had not done justice to his talent by focusing on his game, and he would not get any favors from such social media posts.
“It would be a mistake to think that such posts on social media will have any impact on the Mumbai and MCA selectors,” he added.
Shaw’s teammate and Mumbai captain Shreyas Iyer also issued a stern statement on the night Mumbai defeated Madhya Pradesh in the final to win the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
“He needs to improve his work ethic. If he does, the sky is the limit for him,” Iyer told reporters in Bengaluru.
“We can’t sponsor anyone, right? He has played a lot of cricket. Everyone has given him input. At the end of the day, his job is to figure things out for himself. He has also done that in the past. It’s not that he hasn’t,” he added.
Shaw was earlier left out of Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy squad for similar reasons in October, after which he was given a specific fitness program to work on at the MCA academy.
“He is not following up on it properly,” the official said.
Shaw burst onto the scene with a lot of hype, making his Test debut in 2018 as an 18-year-old in a home series against the West Indies.
His only century in this format was a sensational debut, but since then he has appeared in just four more Tests, the last coming against Australia four years ago.
His ODI and T20 International career also failed and he has not played any white-ball cricket for India since 2021. These are remarkably disappointing stats for a player, who was touted as the next big thing in Indian cricket just a few years ago.
Many former players have expressed concern about his antics and behavior on and off the field. His recent low was the failure to find any takers in the IPL auction despite arriving at a relatively low base price of Rs 75 lakh.
“I will tell you one thing. No one is Shaw’s enemy. He is his own enemy,” the MCA official said, expressing the frustration felt by the cricket community in India over his failure to deliver on early promise.
(This report was published as part of the syndicate’s live broadcast. Aside from the headline, no copy editing was made by ABP Live.)
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