Prithvi Shaw

The arrival

Prithvi Shaw arrived through the auction: Delhi Daredevils paid ₹1.20 cr, against a base price of ₹20 lakh.

That first season brought 9 matches and 245 runs.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2021, for Delhi Capitals: 479 runs at an average of 31.9, striking at 159.1 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 127.2, with 4 fifties, and a highest score of 82.

One franchise

Prithvi Shaw spent the whole IPL career with Delhi Daredevils, now Delhi Capitals, from 2018 to 2024. Delhi Daredevils went back to the auction to buy Prithvi Shaw again in 2026 for ₹75 lakh.

How the runs came

Across the career, Prithvi Shaw struck at 147.4. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 134.7, so Prithvi Shaw scored about 13 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 70% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 238 fours and 61 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 37.7% of the balls Prithvi Shaw faced were dot balls, a higher share than 69% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 21 balls, and a four every 5.4.

The fielding record: 18 catches.

At the auction

Prithvi Shaw went under the hammer three times, bought twice and left unsold once. The highest price was ₹1.20 cr, paid by Delhi Daredevils in 2018, more than 6 times the base price. Unsold in 2025, Prithvi Shaw was bought again in 2026 by Delhi Capitals. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Delhi Capitals in 2026.

Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.

The legacy

Prithvi Shaw made 79 IPL appearances, the last for Delhi Capitals in 2024, and won 4 player-of-the-match awards.