In IPL history, star bowler Shardul Thakur has reached the milestone of 100 wickets. The player reached the milestone during the seventh IPL 2025 match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium. It took the star pacer 97 games to reach the three-figure wicket milestone.
In the game, Shardul bowled the opening over and got rid of the dangerous Abhishek Sharma in the third over. Ishan Kishan also returned to the pavilion with the very next delivery, but wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant caught him. Both wickets significantly hampered SRH’s strategy for the first innings, particularly during the powerplay when they had a chance to score 62 runs—much fewer than they have recently done.
Shardul returned for his second spell and took out Abhinav Manohar, a slog hitter who scored just two runs off six balls. Mohammed Shami of Hyderabad took his 100th wicket in the prestigious event, making him the fourth and last victim of the Mumbai cricketer in the encounter. His numbers with the ball at the end of the innings were 4-0-34-4.
The famous cricket player has played for six different league teams, most recently LSG. Curiously, Shardul was not eligible to participate in the IPL 2025 since he was not purchased during the massive auction held prior to the competition’s eighteenth edition. However, Mohsin Khan’s injury made it possible for him to return to the league in a fairly strange way, but the Palghar Express seized the chance. The IPL 2025 Purple Cap is currently in his possession as well.
“In IPL, all these things keep happening. Unfortunately few injuries here and there and there were few inquiries if I could join the camp. But LSG approached me first so I had to accept it. Zaheer Khan gave me a call. You have good and bad days, you have to go through it in cricket. It’s always good to be in the scoresheet but winning the game is important to me. I keep doing something or the other. I don’t look much at the wickets column or runs column, I just want to put in match-winning performances. They are coming hard at bowlers so why not go hard at them? The plan was to collectively go hard at them. We thought if we get early wickets, we’d do well because they have been going heavy from the start on flat pitches.”
Shardul Thakur
