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NEW DELHI The determination from Mumbai to Maharashtra has paid contiguous dividends for Prithvi Shaw, who produced a sensational treble 100 successful lone his 2nd outing for his caller team. Playing against Chandigarh successful the 2nd circular of the Ranji Trophy, Shaw blazed to a 156-ball 222, signaling the second-fastest treble period ever successful the tournament’s Elite Group.Shaw reached the milestone successful conscionable 141 balls, surpassing Rahul Singh’s 2023/24 record, and present trails lone Ravi Shastri’s iconic 123-ball treble 100 from the 1984/85 season. The 25-year-old struck 29 boundaries and 5 sixes, maintaining a onslaught complaint of 142.31, and besides brought up his 100 successful conscionable 73 balls — the sixth-fastest successful Ranji history.
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After parting ways with the Mumbai Cricket Association pursuing a controversy-filled season, Shaw switched allegiance to Maharashtra, wherever helium started with a period successful a warm-up match.
His Ranji Trophy run began quietly, with a duck successful the archetypal innings against Kerala, but his blistering sound against Chandigarh has turned heads erstwhile again.The innings not lone marks a idiosyncratic comeback but besides places Shaw among Indian cricket’s elite. He present holds the grounds for the fastest treble period successful Ranji Trophy’s elite part successful the 21st century, surpassing his ain erstwhile grounds of 174 balls (against Baroda successful 2019/20).
Only Shastri’s whirlwind effort remains faster successful the 91-year past of the competition.Shaw is present the lone batter too Shastri to diagnostic doubly among the 4 fastest treble centuries successful the Ranji Trophy’s elite group. Including the sheet division, Hyderabad’s Tanmay Agarwal holds the wide people for the third-fastest treble 100 successful first-class cricket.The Maharashtra opener besides joins Virender Sehwag arsenic the 2nd Indian to people aggregate treble hundreds successful less than 200 balls successful first-class cricket — a uncommon nine shared by lone 8 players worldwide. Other notable Indians to person achieved accelerated treble hundreds see Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Sachin Tendulkar, and Shreyas Iyer.Shaw’s 222 disconnected 156 balls present stands arsenic a reminder of his prodigious endowment and imaginable resurgence. For a subordinate erstwhile earmarked arsenic India’s adjacent large thing, this innings could good people the commencement of a long-awaited comeback.
Records Prithvi Shaw broke with his 222 (156)
- Second-fastest treble period successful Ranji Trophy Elite Group history
- – Reached his treble 100 successful 141 balls, lone down Ravi Shastri’s 123-ball treble ton (1984/85)
- Fastest treble period successful the 21st period successful Ranji Trophy (Elite Group)
- – Surpassed his ain erstwhile grounds of 174 balls acceptable against Baroda successful the 2019/20 season
- Sixth-fastest period successful Ranji Trophy history
- – Reached his 100 successful conscionable 73 balls during the innings.
- Second Indian to people aggregate treble hundreds successful less than 200 balls successful first-class cricket
- – Joins Virender Sehwag successful this elite club.
- Only subordinate too Ravi Shastri to diagnostic doubly among the 4 fastest treble centuries successful Ranji Trophy’s Elite Group.
- First subordinate to people a treble period for Maharashtra successful the 2025–26 Ranji Trophy season.
- Among lone 8 players successful the satellite to person aggregate treble hundreds successful less than 200 balls
- – Joining legends similar Sehwag and Graeme Hick
- One of the fewer Indian players to deed treble centuries astatine a onslaught complaint supra 140 successful first-class cricket.
