After cutting off cricketing ties with Mumbai, former India U-19 World Cup-winning team captain Prithvi Shaw will play for Maharashtra in the 2025-26 domestic season. Ahead of the start of the 2025-26 Ranji
Trophy season, Shaw is playing a warm-up match for Maharashtra against Mumbai these days, and on Day 1 of the match, the 25-year-old right-handed batter has scored a century.
Prithvi needed 140 balls on Tuesday (October 7) to complete his century. He reached the 100-run mark by taking a single on the first ball of the sixth over bowled by Mumbai’s new Ranji captain, Shardul Thakur.
He came out to open the innings with Arshin Kulkarni, and the duo added 305 runs for the first wicket. Kulkarni, who is a left-handed batting all-rounder, scored 186 runs from 140 balls. He was sent back to the pavilion by Shams Mulani on the fourth ball of the 50th over.
Arshin tried to play a big shot down the ground off Mulani’s bowling but was caught by Musheer Khan.
At the time of Arshin’s dismissal, Shaw was batting on 116 runs from 159 balls.
Shaw’s record in first-class cricket
25-year-old Shaw has played 58 first-class matches so far and has 4456 runs to his name. He has slammed 13 centuries and 18 fifties in first-class cricket, and his best score is 379, which he made for Mumbai in the 2022-23 Ranji Trophy season.
Shaw made his first-class debut for Mumbai against Tamil Nadu in Rajkot on January 1, 2017, and scored 120 runs in the second innings after getting out for 4 in the first.
Shaw has also played five Test matches for Team India. He made his red-ball debut against the West Indies in Rajkot on October 4, 2018, and scored 134 runs in the first innings for the Virat Kohli-led side.
Shaw is the youngest Indian batter to score a century on his Test debut.
Maharashtra’s Ranji Trophy 2025-26 schedule
Maharashtra will kick off their Ranji Trophy 2025-26 season on October 15 against Kerala and then face Chandigarh in their second Elite Group B match from October 25 to 28. Maharashtra’s other six Elite Group B matches are scheduled against Saurashtra, Karnataka, Punjab, Goa and Madhya Pradesh.
