The national selectors have picked seasoned pacer Mohammed Shami as a replacement for Jasprit Bumrah, who had to pull out of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup in Australia starting on Sunday. India will open their campaign against arch-rivals Pakistan on October 23. Mohammed Siraj and Shardul Thakur have been named as backups and will travel to Australia shortly, the release added.
October 14, 2022Mitchell Marsh's 63 and Thakur's brilliant 4/36, which included the wicket of Jitesh Sharma, who threatened to take the match away from the Capitals in the final overs, helped the side seal an important win over PBKS to keep their playoff hopes alive.
May 17, 2022The squad otherwise remains unchanged from the one that played in the first two Tests at the M.A.Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
February 17, 2021Shardul Thakur played a crucial role in the Border-Gavaskar series decider at the Gabba. His 69 runs and seven wickets helped India win the fourth Test.
January 28, 2021Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur scored their maiden Test half centuries to keep India in the game at The Gabba.
January 17, 2021The 29-year-old Shardul Thakur said that he was up for the opportunity. He recalled an advice from head coach Ravi Shastri at the start of the tour.
January 17, 2021On Day 3, Thakur and Sundar embarked on a 123-run partnership for the seventh wicket to help India fall behind Australia by a small margin of just 33 runs.
January 17, 2021Sundar and Thakur have ensured that the visitors remain alive in the fourth Test with their partnership of 77 runs on Day Three. Thanks to that, India reached 253/6 at Tea.
January 17, 2021Jadeja was hit on his helmet off a delivery from speedster Mitchell Starc in the last over of India's innings. He was unable to take the field for Australia's innings.
December 5, 2020Earlier, on Saturday, Mumbai pacer Shardul Thakur became the first Indian cricketer to resume outdoor training after over two months of break.
May 24, 2020Mumbai batsman Hardik Tamore, who made his Ranji debut for the domestic giants last season, was also seen training at the same ground.
May 23, 2020Shardul was taken to the cleaners in both T20Is and one-dayers as India first won the T20 series 5-0 only to lose the ODIs 0-3.
February 17, 2020The heroes of the last two matches- Mohammed Shami and Thakur have now finally revealed what exactly they were thinking as they prepared to bow the last overs.
February 1, 2020After winning their second super-over match in three days against New Zealand, Virat Kohli led India have now taken a 4-0 lead in the 5 matches T20I series.
January 31, 2020Pant, who has been backed by the Indian team management as their first-choice wicketkeeper, has played 15 ODIs but has only managed 346 runs.
January 12, 2020In response to India's total, Sri Lanka managed to score just 123 runs. In course to this series-clinching win, Virat and speedster Jasprit Bumrah broke records.
January 11, 2020Thakur, who also returned figures of 2 for 19, became the Man of the Match on Friday.
January 11, 2020