Prithvi Shaw was recently dropped from Mumbai's Ranji Trophy squad during the first leg due to fitness concerns. However, he made a comeback in the T20 side for their successful 2024 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) campaign, where Mumbai defeated Madhya Pradesh in the final on Sunday in Bengaluru. Shaw featured in all nine matches, scoring 197 runs at an average of just under 22 and a strike rate of 156.34. While he delivered five notable cameos, his performances were offset by four low scores.

"He needs to get his work ethics right, and if he does that, the sky is the limit for him," Shreyas Iyer said.

Earlier this year, Shaw was dropped by his IPL team, the Delhi Capitals, before being released by the franchise. He subsequently went unsold in the recent IPL 2025 auction.

"We can't babysit anyone, right? Every professional who is playing at this level, they need to know what they should be doing," Iyer said. "And he has also done it in the past; it's not that he hasn't. He has to focus, he has to sit back, [and] put a thinking cap on, and then figure out himself. He will get the answer by himself."