The Mumbai Batter Prithvi Shaw has broken the silence on social media trolling over him after he went unsold during the IPL 2025 mega auction.
The 25-year-old who was presented in the auction on the second day of the event for the base price of INR 75 lakhs has attracted no bids and was also not recalled during the accelerated round.
Due to this, Shaw broke his silence on the endless trolling he has faced since incurring a downfall in his cricketing career.
In a video that originally shared on the YouTube channel “Focused Indian” on the eve of the auction in Jeddah.
He pointed out that most of these social media users don’t follow him on any of the websites and yet are keeping a tab of his activities, which he rather took it positively, but admitted that some of the memes and posts shared do hurt him.
“If he is not following me, then how will he troll? That means he has eyes on me, nice. I feel like trolling is not a good thing, but it is not such a bad thing either,” Prithvi Shaw said.
“If people make memes on me, I see them as well. I sometimes get hurt.” Prithivi Shaw reflected back on a recent trolling incident on a video that had gone viral on social media, where he was seen dancing saying that it was only his birthday as he questioned logic behind some of the brutal reactions he got to read.
“I was wondering what wrong have I done. I know if I am doing anything wrong. But if something is not wrong, it should be shown in that light,” Prithvi Shaw said.
The India’s U-19 World Cup winning captain spent seven season with Delhi Capitals since 2018, before being released by the team ahead of the mega auction.
Shaw has been underperforming in domestic cricket and was recently dropped from Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy squad due to fitness concerns, dropped his base price of INR 75 lakh from INR 2 crore, but failed to grab any attention.
Reacting to this incident, former DC assistant coach Mohammed Kaif said it was ‘Shameful’ that Shaw did not get picked at the auction and urged him to go back to focus on domestic cricket in a bid to earn his reputation back.
“Delhi backed Prithvi Shaw a lot. They believed he could dominate the powerplay and hit six boundaries in an over, and he did that too. He smashed Shivam Mavi for six fours in one over,” Kaif said.
“Maybe now, he finally goes back to basics. Someone like Sarfaraz Khan got into the national team by scoring lots and lots of runs,” concluded Mohammad Kaif.
