Published 10:47 IST, November 15th 2019

Prithvi Shaw returns to Mumbai Squad after serving a ban for doping

Prithvi Shaw makes a return to the Mumbai squad for Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament after he was banned for eight months for doping violation. Read to know more

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Young batsman Prithvi Shaw makes a return to  15-member Mumbai squ for Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy after he was banned for eight months for doping violation. He will be eligible to play from vember 17.

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opener, who played two Tests for India was banned from all forms of cricket by BCCI for a period of eight months in July after he was tested positive in a doping test. Prithvi Shaw's ban ends on midnight vember 15.

Mumbai Cricket Association on Thursday anunced squ for last two games and for super league st of national T20 tournament.  20-year-old will be eligible to play only from vember 17 when Mumbai face Assam in ir last league match at Wankhede stium. Mumbai have been unbeaten in tournament so far, having won all ir five games and are set to vance to super league st.

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Last week, as Shaw turned 20, he posted a short video of him practising and captioned it: “I turn 20 today. I assure it will be Prithvi Shaw 2.0 going forward. Thank u for all good wishes & support. Will be back in action soon.”

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Prithvi Shaw h been training at  National Cricket Acemy for past few weeks before returning to Mumbai on Tuesday in anticipation of straightaway getting into Mumbai team. On Thursday, 20-year old was included in 15-member Mumbai team anunced for remaining group games of Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy and Elite League starting in Surat on vember 21.

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Suryakumar Yav (Captain), Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw, itya Tare, Shivam Dube, Shubham Ranjane, Jay Bista, Siddhesh L, Sujit Nayak, Shardul Thakur, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shams Mulani, Dhrumil Matkar, Tushar Deshpande and Eknath Kerkar.

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09:18 IST, November 15th 2019