Annual player drafts are million-dollar glitzy events on primetime TV, watched by millions. US sports do the prodigy best – of course they do. All of this feeds into our expectations for the prodigy. Instead of a parent, we are the sports obsessive who can’t play at the highest level. Maybe it’s some perverse version of a parent wanting to live through their child. Every success for them is a success for us. If we knew about them before others did, we become possessive. The sporting prodigy feels exotic, something so rarely seen that it causes rational people to lose all sense of perspective. Or sometimes they burst on to the scene in a flash, like Wayne Rooney. The prodigy can be groomed from an early age, like the Williams sisters and Tiger Woods. They are a flawless representation of what we love in sport. The prodigy hasn’t yet cheated on their partner, tweeted their support of an abhorrent government or spouted problematic views. But the prodigy? Who knows what they can achieve? Diego Maradona can’t win more than one World Cup. Michael Jordan can’t score more than 32,292 points. Tendulkar can’t score any more than 15,921 runs. What does the prodigy offers us that simple greatness doesn’t? It’s the hope of something better. Serena and Venus Williams at the US Open in 1999. He was the youngest Indian batsman to score a century on debut. He did not disappoint, scoring 134 against West Indies at Rajkot in 2018. “The next Sachin?” At least they had the decency to pose it as a question.Ī year later, Shaw made his Test debut. The ICC followed with an online profile of Shaw.
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A boy who plays a game for fun is having to sit in front of a TV camera and dampen grown adults’ wild fantasies at what he can become. I don’t think I will achieve as much as him, he was very special,” he says. “People expect me to play for India and be just like Sachin, so there is a lot of pressure.
He knows expectations are already stratospheric. There’s a deep acknowledgement as the raw teenage eyes look down the lens. India, your next 15,921 Test runs have arrived.
After 80 seconds the viewer is told they are hearing from the next Sachin Tendulkar. A 12-minute segment on the 15-year-old Shaw told his story. Sports magazine show Transworld Sport gave the worldwide reveal. He was clearly special.Įighty seconds was all it took for expectations to become infinite. Most boys that age spend time deleting their internet history every 15 minutes, yet Shaw spent his time breaking records. He was raised solely by a father who gave up his business to prioritise his son’s talent, and the two of them moved to Mumbai aiming to stand out among the billions of limbs gripping cricket bats.Īt 14, Shaw made the highest recorded competitive score since 1901: 546 in one innings, for Rizvi Springfield in the Harris Shield. Scouted on the streets aged three, his mother died a year later.
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Shaw would face another four balls before being dumped for the remainder of the 2020–21 series between Australia and India. Starc will try and swing one back through the gate.” Shaw’s off stump went jack-knifing across the Adelaide Oval seconds after Ponting had explained how it would happen. He quite often leaves a gap between bat and pad, and that is where the Aussies will target. “I think it’s the ball that comes back into him. “He has a little chink in his armour,” said Ricky Ponting in commentary as Prithvi Shaw prepared to bat.
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Yells for full international honours fill the air. Then the first sighting at some niche age-group tournament, perhaps a mention in the local press. You begin to recognise the name, but nobody has actually seen them.
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