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Sachin Tendulkar's Advice to Struggling Prithvi Shaw Changed Things Around After Australia

Prithvi Shaw, after a low in Australia, has been a revelation in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy, scoring 754 runs at an average of 188.5. The Mumbai lad has scored four tons already, and it won't be a surprise if he goes on to score another one in the final against UP. But it hasn't been an easy ride after coming back from Australia, where India enjoyed unprecedented success.

Sachin Tendulkar's Advice to Struggling Prithvi Shaw Changed Things Around After Australia

Prithvi Shaw, after a low in Australia, has been a revelation in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy, scoring 754 runs at an average of 188.5. The Mumbai lad has scored four tons already, and it won’t be a surprise if he goes on to score another one in the final against UP. But it hasn’t been an easy ride after coming back from Australia, where India enjoyed unprecedented success.

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In an interview, Shaw opened up that phase, and said that while everyone had dismissed him, he still had belief in himself. “Ravi (Shastri) Sir and Vikram (Rathour) Sir made me realise where I was going wrong. I had to find a solution. Just go back to the nets and fix it. There were small mistakes that I was making. Those two innings (Adelaide, pink-ball Test) made me look bad. My back lift was the same but my bat was coming down slightly away from my body. There was an issue with the initial movement. I was in a fixed position. I needed to keep my bat closer to my body, which I wasn’t doing,” Shaw told Indian Express.

“I was in complete tension when I was dropped after the first Test. I got a feeling like I was worthless though I was happy that the team was doing well. I said to myself ‘I need to pull up my socks’. There is a saying, ‘hard work beats talent’. I told myself all this talent is fine but it’s of no use if I don’t work hard. It was the saddest day of my life (when he was dropped). I went to my room and broke down. I felt like something wrong was happening. I needed answers quickly.”

But a word with Sachin Tendulkar definitely helped the youngster get out of the rough patch. “I didn’t speak to anyone, I was getting calls but I was not in the frame of mind to speak to people. My mind was messed up. My bat was coming down from the gully area, but that’s how I have scored runs all my life. The problem was the way I was getting out and I had to fix it immediately. I met Sachin sir (Tendulkar) after I came back, he said don’t make too many changes and to just play as close to the body as I could. I was late on the ball. So during the entire Australia tour, I worked on that part. Maybe it was because I had gone to Australia after playing in Dubai (IPL).”

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Shaw made it clear that he knows how to make a comeback, and knows his game well. “I never give up easily. Mein Virar ka ladka hoon (I am a Virar boy), I have come from the streets. I know how to bounce back. I have always kept the team above me, be it club, Mumbai or India. If you want me to score 1 run in 100 balls, then I can try but that’s not me. That’s not my game. I can’t play like that. I have never been in such a situation like I was in Australia but I have worked hard now. Spent hours and hours in nets to rectify it.”

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