Prithvi Shaw Height, Age, Girlfriend, Family, Biography & More

Bio/Wiki
Birth Name	Prithvi Gupta [1]TOI
Full Name	Prithvi Pankaj Shaw
Nickname	Prithvi Missile
Profession	Cricketer (Batsman)
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 168 cm in meters- 1.68 m in feet inches- 5’ 6”
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Cricket
International Debut	India U19- 14 January 2018 against v Aust U19 at Mount Maunganui Test- 4 October 2018 vs West Indies at Rajkot ODI- 5 February 2020 vs New Zealand at Seddon Park T20- 25 July 2021 against Sri Lanka in Colombo
Jersey Number	# 100 (India) # 100 (Domestic)
Domestic/State Team	Delhi Daredevils, Mumbai, Northamptonshire (English county) [2]Rediff
Coach/Mentor	Coach- Santosh Pingulkar Mentor- Rahul Dravid
Favourite Shot	Cover drive [3]NDTV
Records (main ones)	• The first schoolboy cricketer to score more than 500 runs in an official inter-school match (546 runs from 330 balls playing for Rizvi Springfield in a Harris Shield match). • The youngest Indian cricketer to score a half-century on Test debut (after Hanif Mohammad, Jeff Stollmeyer, Tamim Iqbal and Imran Farhat). • The first Indian cricketer to score a century on debut in the Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy, and Test. • The 15th Indian cricketer to score a century on Test debut. • The 2nd youngest Indian cricketer (after Sachin Tendulkar) to score a Test century (18 years 329 days) on debut. • The 6th Indian cricketer to win the Player-of-the-Match award on Test debut. • 2nd fastest List A hundred by an Indian batter (scoring 244 off 153 balls for Northamptonshire vs Somerset in England One-Day Cup match in 2023)
Awards, Honours, Achievements	2017- The 'Best Junior-Cricketer-of-the-Year' by the Sports Journalists' Association of Mumbai (SJAM)
Career Turning Point	When he scored 546 runs in the Harris Shield Cricket Tournament in 2013
Personal Life
Date of Birth	9 November 1999 (Tuesday)
Age (as of 2024)	25 Years
Birthplace	Virar, Maharastra, India
Zodiac sign	Scorpio
Signature
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Manpur, Gaya, Bihar, India [4]TOI
School(s)	• A.V.S. Vidyamandir, Virar, Mumbai • Rizvi Springfield High School, Mumbai
College/University	Rizvi College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Mumbai
Religion	Hinduism
Caste	Vaisya (Madhesia)
Food Habit	Non-Vegetarian
Address	A home at Juhu Tara Road, Mumbai
Hobbies	Playing on PlayStation [5]HT Times, Playing Billiards
Controversy	Selfie row with influencer Sapna Gill: On 15 February 2023, Prithvi Shaw was involved in a car chase in Mumbai after an argument over selfies escalated into a fight with a baseball bat. According to a police complaint filed by the cricketer at the Oshiwara police station, eight people, including Shobhit Thakur and Sana or Sapna Gill (a social media influencer), chased the cricketer's car and attacked him with a baseball bat after the cricketer denied taking selfies with them at a luxury hotel near the Mumbai airport. In his complaint, Prithvi Shaw said that after taking few selfies with Sapna Gill and others in the hotel, he asked them to leave; however, they wanted to click more selfies following which Prithvi Shaw called his friend and the manager of the hotel to have the fans removed. Later, the fans, who were waiting outside the hotel for Prithvi, along with a few others armed with baseball bats, mobbed him. The cricketer also said that when he drove off, they chased his car, intercepted it at a traffic signal near Oshiwara, and broke the windshield. According to Prithvi Shaw's friend, the alleged fans also demanded Rs 50,000, threatening to file a fake police case. Following the complaint, the police arrested Sapna Gill. [6]NDTV On 5 April 2023, Sapna Gill filed a criminal complaint before the Andheri magistrate's court, seeking registration of an FIR against the cricketer under IPC sections 354 (assault of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) 509 (word/gesture/act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means). [7]NDTV In July 2023, a CCTV video went viral on the internet, showing it was Shaw who initiated the fight after Sapna Gill's friend Shobhit Thakur approached him for a selfie. [8]Cricket Country
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Unmarried
Affairs/Girlfriends	Nidhi Tapadia (model and actress)
Family
Wife/Spouse	N/A
Parents	Father- Pankaj Shaw Mother- Name Not Known (Died in 2003)
Siblings	None
Favourites
Cricketer	Sachin Tendulkar
Food	Anda Ghotala
Actor(s)	Hrithik Roshan [9]Crictracker, Govinda [10]HT Times
Actress	Deepika Padukone [11]HT Times
Singer	Arijit Singh [12]HT Times
TV Show	Taarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashmah
Money Factor
Car Collection	BMW 6 Series Gran Turismo
Money Factor
Salary (approx.)	IPL 11- ₹1.2 crore (as in 2018)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Prithvi Shaw

• Prithvi started playing cricket at the age of 3.

• When he was 4 years old, his mother passed away, which created a big void in his life, and in order to overcome it, he shifted his focus towards cricket.

• His father sacrificed a lot for his career as he shut down his flourishing garment business, where he used to purchase the garment from wholesalers and sell it in Surat and Baroda. Moreover, for around 3 years, his family survived on his father’s savings.

• Their financial crisis started fading away when Prithvi started getting scholarships, and a Shiv Sena MLA, Sanjay Potnis, provided him a home in Vakola, which was close to Prithvi’s training ground in Bandra.
  

  Prithvi Shaw with Sanjay Potnis

• His everyday practice was a daunting task itself; as he, along with his father used to do a 70-km ride between Virar and Mumbai.
  

  Prithvi Shaw with his father used to travel from Virar to Mumbai for practice

• His father acted as a practice bowler by bowling at him at the Air India ground in Kalina.

• In 2011, he was selected to play for Polly Umrigar XI.

• In 2013, he hit the headlines after scoring a record 546 off 330 balls in a Mumbai based Haris Shield elite division match, at the age of 14.
  

  Prithvi Shaw practicing during his school days

• Prithvi was a part of India’s squad that won the Asia Cup Under-19 tournament, under the coaching of Rahul Dravid.

• He scored his debut first-class ton (120 runs) for Mumbai against Tamil Nadu in the 2016-17 season of the Ranji Trophy.

• On 4 February 2018, under his captaincy, the U-19 Indian cricket team won the 2018 U-19 World Cup in New Zealand.

• His grandfather, Ashok Gupta, runs a cloth shop in Bihar named ‘Shri Balaji Cut Piece Centre.’

• To view an interesting video on Prithvi Shaw’s life, Click Here

• He loves to share hilarious Dubsmash videos on social media.

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