Quotes from Prithvi Shaw

The IPL is a different ball game. Going there and playing in England against England is a different thing.

Once you graduate from the Under-19 level, no one really gives you technical advice. It is all about making mental adjustments.

As a captain, I just want to lead the team properly.

Govinda is my favourite actor - his comedy and dance is unique.

It is all about the kind of experience you garner over the years, which tends to make a difference in the way you play at the top level.

It is a really proud feeling to get my first Test cap.

I look to gain experience wherever I play.

From a small age, we used to play a lot of school cricket: 30-35 games in a year in school cricket, then Under-16 games.

I learnt a lot about how to react to tough, pressure situations.

It was a great feeling to score a century on Test debut. I got a lot of confidence.

I don't think it matters too much if you are batting or bowling first on this pitch. The wicket remains the same throughout the 40 overs. There is only the dew factor that probably comes in the second innings.

Cricket came about for me when my dad started throwing plastic balls to me at home. I was four or five.

I have played for Rizvi since childhood. I have led Rizvi myself for six years, and we continuously won the Harris Shield and Giles Shield.

My height doesn't matter, as I want to keep playing my natural game.

During the 2011 World Cup, I was sitting at the Wankhede Stadium when India won.

Just in a matter of eight months to win the U-19 World Cup as captain and then make the Test team is quite unreal.

Whatever opportunities I got after the Under-19 World Cup, I tried to make most of it and do my best for the team.

Becoming captain of the World Cup team and winning it is something I can't express in words.

Becoming World Cup captain, I can't express in words the feeling and thanks to everyone.

No one in the Indian team gave me tips, but I should be mature enough to grasp little things by watching them train and play.

To represent your country is the ultimate honour, and to play Test cricket for India will be the ultimate fulfilment of my cricketing ambition.

If you score a hundred in one game and then don't do much in the next three or four matches, then that hundred doesn't mean anything.

I can't compare myself to Tendulkar, because he has already played and done with his 25 years of international career and scored 100 hundreds.

I made tons of runs and got an opportunity to play for Mumbai. Suddenly, people knew who I was, and the cameras were on me. Getting the recognition matters when you are playing school cricket.