NEW DELHI The move from Mumbai to Maharashtra has paid immediate dividends for Prithvi Shaw , who produced a sensational double hundred in only his second outing for his new team. Playing against Chandigarh in the second round of the Ranji Trophy , Shaw blazed to a 156-ball 222, recording the second-fastest double century ever in the tournament’s Elite Group. Shaw reached the milestone in just 141 balls, surpassing Rahul Singh’s 2023/24 record, and now trails only Ravi Shastri’s iconic 123-ball double hundred from the 1984/85 season. The 25-year-old struck 29 boundaries and five sixes, maintaining a strike rate of 142.31, and also brought up his hundred in just 73 balls — the sixth-fastest in Ranji history. After parting ways with the Mumbai Cricket Association following a contro
Prithvi Shaw scripts Ranji Trophy history with double century: All the records he broke during 156
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