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‘Thought people were thinking that I was taking banned substances and drugs’
Young Indian batsman Prithvi Shaw recently had a terrific outing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021. The Delhi Capitals opener scored 308 runs from 8 games at a strike rate of 166.49. He was placed fourth on the Orange Cap list before the tournament was indefinitely postponed due to a surge in Covid cases in its bio-bubbles. Prithvi has been in a rich vein of form lately and enjoying his game but there was a time when he had to suffer an 8-month ban for failing a dope test during Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2019. As a result, he missed out on the Test series against Bangladesh and South Africa at home and wasn’t a part of India's Test set-up for more than a year.
In a conversation with Cricbuzz, Shaw called it a 'difficult time'. He revealed that he was down with a cold and fever while playing the domestic tournament. That's when his father suggested he take cough syrup. “I think dad and I are responsible for the cough syrup controversy. I remember we were playing the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in Indore and I was down with a cold and cough at that time. So I had gone out for dinner and was coughing a lot. So, I spoke to my dad. He asked me to take the cough syrup available in the market. What I did wrong was did not consult the physio, which was wrong on my part,” Shaw told Cricbuzz.
