Prithvi Shaw has also come back to the Delhi Capitals (DC) having not been sold at the auction of the Indian Premier League 2025. Only 304 runs in 16 innings in the 2023 and 2024 seasons were as poor form on the part of the opener. However, Shaw asserted that the break enabled him to come back to IPL 2026 as a bigger and a healthier man both physically and psychologically.
Besides losing his place in the local team of the city of Mumbai in the 2024-25 season, he was also dropped by the Delhi Capitals in the mid-course of the 2024 Indian premier league. Shaw later switched teams in an effort to revive his career following this blow, and he featured in an most recent national season with Maharashtra.
“I enjoyed my life a lot. I went to a couple of destinations to refresh my mind a little. Then I came back [and followed] the same routine: I practised, worked hard. Whether it was training or batting, what I used to do, I started doing three times. And I think it was a good break for me. I can’t say that I took a step back. I needed that break to make myself mentally strong,” said Shaw as quoted by ESPNcricinfo.
“I am a human being; I will make mistakes. Obviously, whatever is written or spoken out there, they know only half of it. My family knows me… My friends know in and out about me. In social media or in the papers, whenever good or bad things used to come [about me], I was very young [to understand them], obviously. Everytime you see [such stuff], you come [back for more]. So I stopped seeing them,” he added.
Shaw will compete with KL Rahul at the top of the order at DC against Pathum Nissanka and Abishek Porel. DC finished fifth in the 2025 season and last made it to the playoffs in 2021. On April 1, they will play the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in Lucknow to start their 2026 campaign.
“Those things were used to keep me away from all these things [related to cricket]. I had belief in myself. Because I know where I have come from, how hard I have worked. Mistakes are made by humans… It’s okay, move ahead. All that is history, and it happened many years ago… I feel [now] is the time when mentally I get a lot of happiness to come to the ground.”
Prithvi Shaw
