Shardul Narendra Thakur is an Indian cricket player who was born on October 16, 1991. He is a bowler who hits with his right hand and throws medium-speed balls with his right arm.
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Domestic career of Shardul Thakur:
Thakur was attacked at first because he wasn’t tall enough to be a fast bowler (5 ft 9 in) and because he was overweight for a while (83 kg), but he eventually joined the Mumbai domestic team. In the 2012–13 Ranji Trophy, he played his first game for Mumbai against Rajasthan at Jaipur in November 2012. He didn’t have a good start to his career. In his first four games, he took four wickets and had an average of 82.0 when he bowled.
During the 2013–14 Ranji season, he won six games and took 27 wickets at an average of 26.25, including one five-wicket haul. In the 2014–15 Ranji season, he took 48 wickets at a rate of 20.81 per game and had five five-wicket hauls. He played in his first List A game for Mumbai in the 2013–14 Vijay Hazare Trophy on February 27, 2014. In the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy final, he helped Mumbai beat Saurashtra by taking eight wickets. This was the 41st Ranji Trophy title for Mumbai.
International career of Shardul Thakur:
He was on India’s 16-person Test team for their 2016 trip to the West Indies, but he did not play. In August 2017, he was put on India’s limited-overs team to play Sri Lanka. On August 31, 2017, against Sri Lanka, he played in his first One-Day International (ODI).
After Sachin Tendulkar, he was the second Indian player to wear the number 10 jersey. This caused a lot of controversy on social media. Later, when he was in trouble, he changed his number to 54. Tendulkar’s No. 10 shirt was taken off the field on November 29, 2017, by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He played his first Twenty20 International (T20I) match for India on February 21, 2018, against South Africa.
In October 2018, he played his first Test match for Team India against the West Indies. He was the 294th player to do so. After only 10 deliveries, his start was over because he had a groin strain in his right leg. Shardul scored 67 runs in the first innings of the famous Gabba Test against Australia. He also took 7 wickets in that game. Thakur was part of the Indian team that went to England in 2021. In the First Test at Nottingham, he was used as an extra seam bowler. He missed the next two Tests because he was hurt, but he came back for the fourth Test at the Oval. In India’s first innings, he scored 57 runs in 36 balls. He reached 50 runs in 31 balls, which was the fastest in Tests played in England.
IPL career of Shardul Thakur:
Thakur was bought by Kings XI Punjab at the 2014 IPL player sale for the 2015 season of the Indian Premier League. He made his debut against Delhi Daredevils and took one wicket in four overs. Rising Pune Supergiants bought him in March 2017 for the tenth season of the IPL. In January 2018, Chennai Super Kings bought him for the next season.
In 2019, Chennai made it to the IPL final. Thakur took two wickets, but he was out on the last ball of the game, when the team still needed two runs to win. In 2021, he was the player for Chennai who took the most wickets, with 21. He was bought by Delhi Capitals in the 2022 Indian Premier League sale in February 2022. After playing in 14 games, he was traded to the Kolkata Knight Riders in return for Aman Khan in November 2022, just before the auctions for the 2023 IPL season.
Batting and Bowling Stats:
Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
| Test | 9 | 16 | 1 | 305 | 67 | 20.33 | 481 | 63.41 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 38 | 9 |
| ODI | 35 | 21 | 6 | 298 | 50 | 19.87 | 271 | 109.96 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 9 |
| T20I | 25 | 6 | 3 | 69 | 22 | 23.0 | 38 | 181.58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 |
| IPL | 86 | 34 | 10 | 286 | 68 | 11.92 | 204 | 140.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 12 |
Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
| Test | 9 | 17 | 1293 | 764 | 29 | 7/61 | 8/108 | 3.55 | 26.34 | 44.59 | 1 | 0 |
| ODI | 35 | 35 | 1541 | 1599 | 50 | 4/52 | 4/52 | 6.23 | 31.98 | 30.82 | 0 | 0 |
| T20I | 25 | 24 | 506 | 772 | 33 | 4/27 | 4/27 | 9.15 | 23.39 | 15.33 | 0 | 0 |
| IPL | 86 | 83 | 1676 | 2560 | 89 | 4/36 | 4/36 | 9.16 | 28.76 | 18.83 | 0 | 0 |
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