Absolutely at home with Chennai Super Kings, great opportunity to come back to life: Shardul Thakur Premium
The Hindu
Shardul Thakur, the Bull of cricket, shares his journey from a small town to international success and challenges faced.
Call him Lord, or call him Beefy
He is quite cool
His first nickname in cricket
After all is the Bull!
One measure of a cult-hero’s popularity is the number of nicknames he spawns, and Shardul Thakur has several. Excited to return to the yellow den — with another Ranji title in the bag and a maiden First Class hundred to his name — Shardul offers us a sneak peek into his persona. Excerpts:
What would Shardul Thakur have been had he not been a cricketer?
I have never thought about it, to be honest. Ours was a typical middle-class family but both my parents were sportspersons along with my uncle, so there was a culture of cricket at home. Just like any other child growing up in a small town in India, I used to play cricket in school. When I was selected for my school, my father asked me what I wanted to become and I told him I want to bat like Sachin Tendulkar. That’s what every kid in India felt like back then. Only when I was 19 or 20, these questions crossed my mind. And I couldn’t think of anything other than cricket.
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