Thakur Sahib is willing to pay the price: from Anasold to Purple Cap in auction.

Delhi: A lot has been written about Thakur Sahib i.e. Shardul Thakur’s brilliant return to the IPL. Whether or not that will be the purple cap winner till the end of the season, only time will tell. But at one point, playing for LSG, the record of wearing purple cap in IPL 2025 is also less than the record of the highest wicket. When keeping in mind that no team did not even bid on them in the auction, then the importance of this achievement becomes even more.

Shardul was unsold in auction

Everyone is discussing this ‘return’, but there is another aspect of all this story, which is more shocking than the praise for Shardul. The question is, why did all the 10 franchisees finally ignore Shardul in the auction? Nobody was interested in buying them even at their base price? Was that ‘Na Bikna’ was profitable for Shardul or will this IPL return benefit his career?

Do you know that the most criticism of the active cricketers of Impact Player in IPL was done by these Thakur Sahib. He had clearly stated that the impact player, in this league, has ended the need of talent players like him and the same happened. In the auction, no one bought them and anything other than that is going to note especially.

‘Shardul’s test career is over’

In November 2024, Shardul equalized the record for the most expensive bowling in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. In the match against Kerala, he conceded 69 runs with one wicket in 4 overs and equaled Ramesh Rahul’s record. On the other hand, in this month, Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir, crossing every scope, gave this statement in the media (while there was no need for it) that Shardul Thakur’s Test career ended. If the top person of Team India’s management says so about a player, where will the career of that player benefit from? Gautam Gambhir has also said that the team will now play with the new player Nitish Reddy. This was done before the team left for the team for the Australia tour.

So in this way, 33-year-old Shardul, who was a special part of more victory with the Border Gavaskar Trophy win in Australia in 2020-21, was dismissed from the scheme. Anyway, Shardul’s Test career was not very big, but GG put a brake on it. Not only Australia, in England and South Africa, he had played well and understand the talent of playing accordingly, accordingly the pitch. All these circumstances were fresh in the minds of all franchises at the time of auction and no one took any interest in buying them. Among the domestic talent, he was the most sensational ignorant story.

County left for LSG

What would Shardul not have been playing in the IPL these days? Kismet opened the door of playing for Essex at the County Championship for Shardul. This ‘shocker’ gave some relief to the ‘shock’ not being sold in the auction. Many experts said that by playing for Shardul Essex, now they will take advantage of ‘Free IPL Window’ and they can not change everything with good performance, they can also become a contender to play in the 5 Test series in England in June-July of India. Essex chose him not only by counting a good fast bowler of a right -hand, he also gave a big sense to his batting in his lower order. On the other hand, the courage that was received from this occasion was clearly visible in his performance in the Ranji Trophy season.

So now with the opportunity to play in IPL 2025, there was a chance to play 7 matches for Essex in the county championship during April-May. The meaning of taking the contract of Lucknow Super Giants is that Shardul closed the file for the opportunity to play in the county. This opportunity could have done the same thing for him who has seen with Cheteshwar Pujara in the previous example. Playing for Essex could directly become contenders for Team India’s return to the Test scheme.

The Shardul Thakur, who received Rs 10.75 crore in the 2022 mega auction, was not sold even at a base price of Rs 2 crore, it was actually surprising. Even then Kismet gave the opportunity to play county cricket, which he no longer consider more than the IPL contract. So has Shardul assumed that the career is not in the Test team, but in the IPL itself? Will Team India selector see his all -round performance in the IPL, will write the story of his return to the Test team on his own? Will answer these questions ahead, but Shardul has indicated that in which side is the path ahead in his scheme?

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