Shardul Thakur Hat-trick: Shardul Thakur wreaked havoc with the ball after the bat, took a hat-trick in the Ranji Trophy.

Team India's pace-bowling all-rounder Shardul Thakur is in the headlines these days. He has once again caught everyone's attention with his performance in the Ranji Trophy. Playing for Mumbai, he wreaked havoc with the bat in the last match of the Ranji Trophy. Shardul scored a half-century in the first innings and a century in the second innings against Jammu and Kashmir. Now he has wreaked havoc with the ball. In fact, in the match against Meghalaya which started on January 30, he took a hat-trick and forced them to kneel. Due to his lethal bowling, the Meghalaya team was completely defeated. Half of their team was out on a score of just 2 runs.
Fifth Mumbai bowler to take a hattrick
Shardul Thakur is only the fifth bowler to take a hat-trick for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy. Before him, this feat was achieved by 4 bowlers from Mumbai, which was started by Jahangir Khot. He achieved this feat against Baroda in the 1943-44 season. After him, Umesh Narayan Kulkarni took a hat-trick against Gujarat in the 1964-64 season and Abdul Ismail took a hat-trick against Saurashtra in the 1973-74 season. Then Roystone Dias did this feat against Bihar in the 2023-24 season. Now Shardul Thakur has repeated it against Meghalaya.
Meghalaya in trouble because of Shardul
This match between Mumbai and Meghalaya is being played at Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy. On Thursday, January 30, Mumbai captain Ajinkya Rahane won the toss and decided to bowl first. After this, he assigned the responsibility of bowling to Shardul Thakur and Mohit Awasthi. Shardul gave the first blow to Meghalaya by dismissing Nishant Chakraborty on the fourth ball of the first over. Mohit took a wicket in the second over. After this came the turn of the third over.
Shardul gave 1 run on the first 3 balls of the third over. Now the score was 2 runs for the loss of 2 wickets. Then he completed a hat-trick by taking 3 wickets back to back on the fourth, fifth and sixth balls and sent half of the Meghalaya team to the pavilion. The sequence of wickets continued even after this. At the time of writing the news, the Meghalaya team had lost 8 wickets for 55 runs after 20 overs. During this, Shardul took 4 wickets for 27 runs in 9 overs, while Mohit Awasthi took 3 wickets for 15 runs in 6 overs and Sylvester D'Souza took 1 wicket for 12 runs in 5 overs.