Shardul Thakur

Shardul Narendra Thakur (born 16 October 1991) is an Indian international cricketer. He is a bowling all-rounder, who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium-fast. He plays first-class cricket for Mumbai and is a member of Chennai Super Kings since 2018
Domestic career.
His Family lived in Palghar but as there were no schools in Palghar that played cricket with the season ball, Shardul along with his family shifted to Boisar, just to play cricket with season ball in T.V.M. School Boisar. Earlier in his school cricket, he hit 6 sixes from 6 balls in an over while representing Swami Vivekanand International School, Borivali.
In November 2012, he made his First-class debut for Mumbai against Rajasthan at Jaipur in the 2012–13 Ranji Trophy. He did not have a good start to his career as he took four wickets at a bowling average of 82.0 from his first four games. In 2013–14 Ranji season, he took 27 wickets at 26.25 from six games, with one five-wicket haul. In the 2014-15 Ranji season, he took 48 wickets at 20.81 from ten games with five five-wicket hauls.
He made his List A debut on 27 February 2014, for Mumbai in the 2013–14 Vijay Hazare Trophy.
In 2015-16 Ranji Trophy final, he took eight wickets against the Saurashtra and led Mumbai to win its 41st Ranji Trophy title.
Initially he was criticised for his lack of height for a fast bowler (he’s 5’9’’) and for being overweight for some time (83kg) but he ultimately became Mumbai domestic cricket’s best pace bowler.
International career.
He was named in India's 16-man squad for India's Test tour of West Indies in 2016, but he did not play. In August 2017, he was named in India's limited-overs squad for the series against Sri Lanka. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut on 31 August 2017 against Sri Lanka.
He became the second Indian cricketer to wear the number 10 jersey after Sachin Tendulkar, which raised various controversial comments in social media. Later, he changed his jersey number to 54 due to controversy. On 29 November 2017, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) retired Tendulkar’s No. 10 jersey.
He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for India against South Africa on 21 February 2018.
In March 2018, he was selected to play in the 2018 Nidahas Trophy. In a match against Sri Lanka he took a career best 4-27 to bring the game back to India's favour, winning the Man Of the Match award. He finished with 6 wickets from 5 matches at an average of 29.33.
In May 2018, he was named in India's Test squad for the one-off Test against Afghanistan in June 2018, but did not play.
In October 2018, he made his Test debut against the West Indies, making him the 294th player to represent Team India in Tests. His debut ended after bowling just 10 deliveries due to suffering from a groin strain in his right leg.
In January 2021, he scored his maiden test fifty, a crucial one, in the first innings of the fourth test match at Brisbane against Australia in the 2020/2021 India Tour of Australia.
IPL career.
He was signed up by Kings XI Punjab for INR 2 million at the 2014 IPL player auction for 2015 season of Indian Premier League and made his debut against Delhi Daredevils where he took one for 38 in his 4 overs. In March 2017, he was acquired by the Rising Pune Supergiants for the tenth season of the IPL. In January 2018, he was bought by the Chennai Super Kings in the List of 2018 Indian Premier League personnel changes.
Thakur played fewer matches in 2019 Indian Premier League for Chennai Super Kings. Though he played in the Final where he took 2 wickets against Mumbai Indians. Chennai however failed to win the IPL title in 2019 after Thakur got out LBW when 2 runs were needed of the final delivery.
Endorsements.
In February 2020, Shardul Thakur was signed up as the brand ambassador for Tata Power Limited.