Shardul Thakur took 4 wickets in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Shardul Thakur is in the headlines after the Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants match. Shardul remained unsold in the mega auction held before IPL 2025. No one even gave him any interest. But now the same Shardul is at the top of the Purple Cap list by taking six wickets in two matches. You must be wondering how Shardul entered the Lucknow Super Giants team after remaining unsold in the auction? This all-rounder himself has answered this question.
Regarding remaining unsold in the mega auction, Shardul Thakur said that the day of the IPL auction was a bad day of his life. He did not find any buyer. In such a situation, when he got a call from Lucknow Supergiants, he did not delay even a minute in taking the decision. Shardul said that such things keep happening in IPL.
This player was the first one to call Shardul Thakur
Unfortunately, players in some teams got injured. LSG approached me first, so I accepted their offer. After all, who was it on whose call Shardul joined Lucknow Super Giants? In response to this, Shardul says that Zaheer Khan called him.
Shardul Thakur said that winning the match is important for me. I don’t look at the column of wickets or runs. I just want to create a match-winning impact. He said that SRH batsmen attack the bowlers. In such a situation, the bowlers also need to attack the batsmen. This was our plan against this team.
Shardul took 4 wickets in the match against SRH
It is worth noting that the way Shardul has bowled in the two matches has been discussed a lot on social media. People are also angry that how the team owners ignored him in the auction. Shardul bowled brilliantly in the match against SRH. He dismissed Abhishek Sharma and then Ishan Kishan, who scored a century in the last match, on two consecutive balls in the second over. Apart from this, he also took two other wickets. He took a total of 4 wickets in this match.
