After opening for Delhi, young Prithvi Shaw struck a smooth fifty as part of a 94-run stand with Shikhar Dhawan to lay the foundation for a solid 175-3 score against Chennai in the seventh match of the 2020 Indian Premier League season.
Before having his stint ended courtesy of a run-out by Chennai's ever-wily MS Dhoni, the 20-year-old, playing at a steady pace, made 64 off 43 balls, laced with an incredible nine boundaries and a six.
The popular youngster's knock found support as the reactions started rolling in, and we rounded up some of the best reactions, starting with none other than this reaction from the competition itself. Now that's high praise indeed!
He came.
He Shaw.
He conquered.Well played .
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL)
Dhawan and Shaw my favourite IPL opening partnership from an aesthetics viewpoint.
— Peter Miller (@TheCricketGeek)
Prithvi putting up a brilliant batting ‘shaw’.
Sorry could not help it.— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar)
The intent to dominate. The courage to take risks. And the confidence and skills to execute ambitious plans. Prithvi Shaw is a special player.
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
Now this is the Prithvi Shaw we want to see. Waiting for the ball to hit rather than going after everything and being unfair to himself. This is a top innings so far
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
Good team today for with Hazelwood coming in and good change for to...Mishra comes in....But my eyes are on prithvi n pant
— Samip Rajguru (@samiprajguru)
The innings of showed that you don't always need to be brutal to play a quality innings! He was sublimely elegant today...
— MANOJ TIWARY (@tiwarymanoj)
I did a today. Didn’t pick in team
— Mayank Basra (@basrasahab)
Terrific start by with a fantastic in full flow. Then 2 quick wickets back in the game!
— Sreedhar Pillai (@sri50)
Brilliant opening partnership by & . will be happy that finally got a good opening partnership, now just go on and score big! is struggling to pick up a wicket and they need that!
— Reema Malhotra (@ReemaMalhotra8)
have great bat flow this is where he generates so much power
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Is and digital twins?
— Monty Panesar (@MontyPanesar)
Feature image courtesy: Twitter.com /Delhi
