Prithvi Shaw (left) is greeted by his father Pankaj at Mumbai airport after arriving from Rajkot on Thursday night. Pic/Bipin Kokate 

There have been many who played an important role in the grooming of 17-year-old Mumbai batsman Prithvi Shaw, who slammed a hundred on his Ranji Trophy debut against Tamil Nadu at Rajkot on Thursday. One such person is former India spinner Nilesh Kulkarni whose sports management firm facilitated Shaw's trips to England. In 2010 and 2012 when the young gun attended the summer semester at Cheadle Hulme School in Manchester where he played against teams like Bramhall and Lancashire. Shaw scored 1446 runs and bagged 68 wickets with his off-spin in 2012.