With his impressive knocks in local and first-class cricket, Prithvi Shaw was no stranger to cricket fans before he entered the Indian dressing-room.
At 18, Shaw earned his maiden call-up for India’s Test series against West Indies, and was included in the playing eleven for the first match. While his opening partner KL Rahul got out for a duck, Shaw went onto score a century, becoming the second-youngest Indian – after Sachin Tendulkar – to score a Test hundred for India. At 18 years and 329 days, Shaw became the fourth-youngest debutant to score a Test hundred. He reached the milestone off just 99 balls – the third-fastest century on Test debut. Eventually, he was dismissed after scoring 134 off 154 balls.
Among the other debutants for India in 2018, wicketkeeeper batsman Rishabh Pant gets his maiden T20 call in February and in the following days 21-year-old Delhite went on to seal his place in all three formats playing XI. Absence of injured Wriddiman Saha and poor form of Dinesh Karthik hands Pant his maiden Test against England at Southampton and the left hander sealed his spot by scoring century against England in the Oval Test.
Among the other debutants, Hanuma Vihari and Mayank Agarwal features in Test side, both scoring fifty in first innings against England and Australia resp.
While, Khaleel Ahmed, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Siddharth Kaul, Vijay Shankar and Krunal Pandya gets a game in the shortest format.