MUMBAI: The moment he completed his scintillating, gritty 105-ball century, sweeping Abid Mushtaq for a single, an ecstatic Shardul Thakur seemed to have forgotten that he had been affected by severe cramps which required treatment multiple times on the field.
Sprinting towards the Mumbai dressing room/clubhouse, he spread his arms, blew kisses and raised his finger towards the audience, which was wholeheartedly applauding Thakur’s second first-class hundred, which was even acknowledged by Jammu & Kashmir’s 40-year-old captain Paras Dogra as “one of the best he had seen” in domestic cricket.
