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Shardul Thakur becomes 5th Mumbai bowler to record Ranji Trophy hat-trick

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Last updated on 30 Jan 2025 | 05:31 AM
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Shardul Thakur becomes 5th Mumbai bowler to record Ranji Trophy hat-trick

This was Thakur’s maiden first-class hat-trick as he sent Meghalaya on the backfoot

Shardul Thakur registered his name in the record books after he became the fifth Mumbai bowler to take a hat-trick in Ranji Trophy history. 

The feat was achieved by the 33-year-old on January 30 (Thursday) during the last-round league matches of the Ranji Trophy 2024-25, where Mumbai was playing Meghalaya at the Bandra-Kurla Complex’ Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy in Mumbai.  

The players removed by Shardul during his heroics were B Anirudh, Sumit Kumar and Jaskirat Sachdeva. Thanks to this hat-trick in his second over and the wicket of opener Nishanta Chakravarty in the first, Meghalaya reeled at 14/6 at one point. 

However,  a partnership developed between Pringsang Sangma and skipper Akash Chaudhary and the team from the North East were 39/6 at the time of writing this. 

This was Thakur’s maiden first-class hat-trick. He joined the likes of Jehangir Khot, Umesh Kulkarni, AM Ismail and Royston Dias in the list of Mumbai bowlers with Ranji Trophy hat-tricks.

In the previous game against Jammu and Kashmir, which Mumbai lost, Thakur had scored a splendind hundred. 

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