Shardul Thakur returned wicketless as India bundled out Pakistan for 191 in 42.5 overs throughout the 2023 World Cup match on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Saturday, October 14.
The 31-year-old was the one bowler with out a wicket, as all 5 remaining bowlers—Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, and Ravindra Jadeja—took two wickets every. He returned with a spell of 0/12 in his two overs.
Thakur has did not ship with the ball in his current outings. The medium pacer took only one wicket in opposition to Afghanistan in Delhi, the place India received by eight wickets.
He had beforehand returned wicketless in two outings in opposition to Australia in the just lately concluded ODI sequence. Thakur, nevertheless, has a knack of breaking essential partnerships and has scalped 20 wickets in 15 ODIs this 12 months to this point.
Fans on X (previously generally known as Twitter) roasted Shardul Thakur for ending wicketless and taking part in forward of Mohammad Shami in the match.
One person wrote:
“Bhai Shardul Thakur match khel raha tha na match dekh raha tha ?? Kash Axar Patel hota.”
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Pakistan set 192-run goal in opposition to India earlier than center order collapse in World Cup match
Fighting knocks from captain Babar Azam and vice captain Mohammad Rizwan helped Pakistan publish a good whole in opposition to India in the World Cup match on Saturday.
Azam top-scored with 50 runs off 58 balls, together with seven boundaries, whereas Rizwan additionally chipped in with 49 off 69, comprising seven fours. The duo shared an 82-run partnership for the third wicket to get well Pakistan from 73/2.
Openers Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique additionally contributed 36 (38) and 20 (24), respectively, earlier than the collapse. The Men in Green misplaced their final eight wickets for simply 36 runs.
In response, India had been 33/4 after 4.4 overs, with Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli on the crease. Shaheen Afridi offered the primary breakthrough for Pakistan by dismissing Shubman Gill for 15 (16), caught by Shadab Khan at backward level.
For the uninitiated, the Men in Green are but to beat India in the ODI World Cups, having misplaced in the marquee ICC match seven instances.
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