No impact, no part of playing XI, still Shardul batted for Mumbai
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IPL 2026 Shardul Thakur: In the match played between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2026, an incident took place which surprised the cricket fans. In this match, Shardul Thakur of Mumbai Indians was neither a part of the team’s starting playing eleven nor was he included in the impact sub, but he still batted.
Shardul Thakur batted
New Delhi: A strange incident was seen in the 33rd match of IPL 2026. The match was played between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. In the match, CSK batted first and scored 207 runs with Sanju Samson’s century. In response to this score, Mumbai’s batting was a complete flop. Except Tilak Verma and Suryakumar Yadav, no batsman could reach double figures.
A total of 13 players took the field for Mumbai in this match against CSK, but despite this the team could not win. Shardul Thakur became the 13th player for Mumbai. For this match against CSK, Shardul Thakur was neither in the playing eleven of Mumbai Indians nor was he included in the impact sub, but despite this he came on the field to bat. However, Shardul was also not effective and scored only 6 runs after playing 12 balls.
Because Shardul Thakur batted in the match
Many fans might be having questions in their minds about Shardul Thakur taking the field against CSK. Because the Mumbai team had already used Danish Malewar as an impact player in place of Allah Ghazanfar. At the same time, Shardul Thakur came to bat in the 13th over of the second innings when Noor Ahmed had dismissed Hardik Pandya and Sherfane Rutherford on two consecutive balls.
Shardul Thakur actually came as a concussion substitute for Mitchell Santner. Santner got injured while trying to take a catch in the first innings. Before his injury, Santner had taken one wicket for 44 runs in four overs. In such a situation, due to shoulder injury, Shardul was given a chance in his place.
Mumbai Indians team lost by 103 runs
In the match, Chennai Super Kings, batting first, scored 207 runs in 20 overs with Sanju Samson’s century. This is Sanju’s second century this season, while he scored his fifth century in his IPL career. Samson remained unbeaten after scoring 101 runs on 54 balls. In response, Mumbai Indians were limited to 104 runs in 19 overs, due to which the team lost by a huge margin of 103 runs.
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