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Teenager Prithvi Shaw makes sensational Test debut<\/strong><\/p>\n Mumbai opening batsman Prithvi Shaw made his Test debut against West Indies in the Rajkot test on October 4, 2018. Prithvi has been creating continuous ripples ever since his first-class debut in January 2017 where he scored a match winning century in the fourth innings of Ranji semifinal at Rajkot \u2013 the same venue. Under his captaincy, the India Under \u2013 19 team became world champions earlier this year. Prithvi has been amongst runs not only for his Ranji team Mumbai, but for India \u2013 A also, where he scored 188 against West Indies \u2013 A and 136 against South Africa \u2013 A. Prithvi has scored as much as 7 centuries in only 14 first class matches with an average of 56.72. He has shown his form in recent Vijay Hazare trophy also where he amassed 287 runs in only three innings with a strike rate of 143.50. Prithvi\u2019s debut would stretch Mayank Agrawal\u2019s wait a little longer. Another prolific scorer in domestic circuits, Mayank scored 2141 runs across formats in 2017-18 season – most by any Indian batsman in a single season.<\/p>\n Teenager debutants who made big names<\/strong><\/p>\n Syed Mushtaq Ali was the first Indian cricketer to make his debut as a teenager, when he took ground at the Kolkata test (1934) at the age of 19 years. In fact, another teenager \u2013 CS Nayudu \u2013 made his debut for India in the same test. Syed Mushtaq Ali went on to become the first Indian batsman to score a test century away from home when he scored 112 at Old Trafford and made a double century stand for first wicket with Vijay Merchant to save India from a certain defeat. India\u2019s domestic T-20 championship consisting of Ranji teams is named after Syed Mushtaq Ali.<\/p>\n Prithvi Shaw is the 30th Indian teenager to make test debut. While going through the list of teenage debuts that Indian test team has seen, we find names of many stalwarts of Indian cricket \u2013 Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, S Venkataraghavan, Mohinder Amarnath<\/a>, Dilip Vengsarkar, Ravi Shastri<\/a>, Maninder Singh, Lakshman Sivaramakrishnan, Chetan Sharma, Narendra Hirwani, Harbhajan Singh<\/a>, Ashish Nehra, Irfan Pathan<\/a>, Ishant Sharma etc. There are three names in the list who had an outstanding impact on the game.<\/p>\n When a teenager opened the bowling for India against Pakistan in Faisalabad test (1978), no one had imagined that one day this lad would be called \u201cHaryana Hurricane\u201d and would change the face of spin-dominated Indian attack forever. Within five years of his debut, he captained India to World Cup title. He retired as the most successful bowler on planet. His name was Kapil Dev<\/a>.<\/p>\n When a bespectacled tall teenager went on to bowl for India at Old Trafford test (1990), no one had imagined that this fighter would go on to become India\u2019s most successful bowler and most successful match winner India has ever produced. His name was Anil Kumble<\/a>.<\/p>\n When a 16-year-old teenager went on to bat in Karachi test (1989) against the most dreaded pace attack Pakistan has ever had \u2013 consisting of Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, no one had imagined that one day this kid would be called \u201cMaster Blaster\u201d and would rewrite almost all batting records in international cricket. His name was Sachin Tendulkar<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, off-late, Indian team hasn\u2019t seen a teenager making a test debut. This is largely due to Indian team\u2019s successful and consistent test combination over the years. On the other hand, there is so much cricket in form of IPL, T-20 and ODI\u2019s that by the time a player gets a test call, he has passed his teens. The last teenager to make a test debut for India was Jaydev Unadkat \u2013 way back in 2010. So Prithvi Shaw should consider himself fortunate that he got the chance while he is still there in his teens. And he used the opportunity to the fullest by scoring a stroke-packed hundred and became India\u2019s first teenager to score a hundred on his debut. He also became youngest Indian to face the first ball of a test match.<\/p>\n