Once heralded as one with potential on par with the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, and Virender Sehwag, Prithvi Shaw saw his career sink to an all-new low during the IPL 2025 auction. The opening batter went through the auction on Monday without a single bid, even after keeping a base price at a meager INR 75 lakh. Shaw’s high potential is still around him, but the rather disturbing disciplinary issues seem to have hit him severely. Else, it has drawn the cricketing career downwards. The former India cricketer Mohammad Kaif opened all the bitter realities regarding the present status of Shaw by declaring that in this auction Shaw went unsold.
Kaif also shared space with Shaw while coaching the Delhi Capitals franchise and highlighted how much the franchise went out of line to support the opening batter with so many failures on field. But then, the batter hasn’t repaid much with the bat. “Prithvi Shaw has been backed by Delhi really a lot. DC was hoping for an incident involving six boundaries in one over; he did do that, actually, against Shivam Mavi-” Six fours in one over. He had so much potential and was back to his hilt by DC. We always thought if Shaw scores, we win; and we did give him a lot of chances,” said Mohammed Kaif on Jio Cinema IPL.
“There were meetings in the night where we would sit and ponder if Prithvi should play or not because he has been failing. Such decisions would then be changed on the match day,” said Kaif further.
Kaif also seems to have a private view about Shaw. According to him, it was really embarrassing as no one showed interest in a base price of INR 75 lakh. The road ahead would be hard work and performing to the best standards at domestic innd.
“Prithvi got a lot of chances and teams have now finally moved on, and it is a matter of embarrassment that he did not get a bid for Rs 75 lakh. Maybe now, he finally goes back to basics. Someone like Sarfaraz Khan got into the national team by scoring lots and lots of runs,” the former India cricketer asserted
Shaw made his IPL debut in 2018 after being roped in by the Delhi Capitals. However, the 2025 season is set to see him miss out on the T20 league for the first time in his career
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