Ajit Agarkar puts forward Prithvi Shaw's name for senior team

There has been a lot of speculations after India's poor performance in the first two Tests against England. The Indian openers, Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, and Shikhar Dhawan, have been struggling to score runs and there have been voices suggesting a change at the top of the order. On the other hand, players from India A have doing quite well against England A and South Africa A. Mayank Agarwal and Prithvi Shaw are two names who have been in great form and might be considered by selectors as well for the last two Tests against England. Shaw, playing in 14 first class games has accumulated 1418 runs at an average of 56.72 with seven hundreds to his name.

“He's certainly doing everything right. I haven't seen him bat in recent times for India A, as those games weren't televised. But from everything you hear from people, everyone seems to be impressed with the way he's adjusting. And the sheer amount of runs (he's scored)... That's the only way you can push your case.

"Whether he's ready for these two Tests at the moment, I'm not sure because I haven't seen him, but he had a hell of a season for us last year. Someone who's been around for a couple of years in First class Cricket and scoring as many runs as he is, I can't see any reason why he isn't ready (for international cricket),” Agarkar said at CCI.

As Parsee Gymkhana cricket secretary and Vice President Khodadad Yazdegardi submitted more than 30 signatures to the MCA for the removal of the selection panel, Agarkar sought to clear his side on the whole issue.

“There are certain players, who over the last season as well...I mean this comes from the coach….we don't involve ourselves in practice...have missed practice for various reasons without informing. We had camp in April-May,” said Agarkar.

“Those same players have not turned up for the camp without informing us. We wanted to send them a message, and that's why we didn't pick them for this off-season camp. But that doesn't mean that we've discarded them for the rest of their lives, as is being said. Those players were always a part of our plans and were added later.

"You might be a top player, but eventually if you can't get with the 15 other guys, and you're not adhering to some of the things that the team does, then this message needs to go out. And hopefully, it has gone out,” he said.