Shardul Thakur hit a century, staked claim for the Test series against England, this all-rounder's trouble increased

The Indian cricket team needs to make its preparation stronger ahead of the five-match Test series against England. For this purpose, it organized an intra-squad fixture against India-A. During this crucial preparation match, although Sarfaraz Khan of India-A scored an outstanding century, Shardul Thakur also established his batting skills and scored a century. Shardul Thakur's this century will not only make him stronger in terms of confidence, but it will also give an additional option to the Indian team management.

Shardul Thakur played an unbeaten innings of 122 runs in the intra-squad match. This innings of his has come in front of bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, and Arshdeep Singh. Shardul was unbeaten at the crease at the time of stumps on the second day. On the third day, he came to bat and scored his century.

At the same time, before the century, Shardul Thakur impressed everyone while bowling for India-A. He troubled batsmen like KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, and Karun Nair a lot. Now the team management has a headache as to who to choose between Nitish Kumar Reddy and Shardul Thakur in the first Test match against England. Before him, Sarfaraz Khan retired on the second day after playing an innings of 101 runs with the help of 15 fours and two sixes in 76 balls.

Shardul Thakur made a place in the Indian team in the Test series against England on the basis of his excellent performance in domestic cricket. He played the last Test for India against South Africa in Centurion in December 2023. He has played 11 Tests so far, scoring 331 runs and taking 31 wickets.

Rituraj Gaikwad disappointed for India-A. He was out for a duck. At the same time, Captain Abhimanyu Easwaran scored 39 runs, while Sai Sudarshan got a chance to bat twice, in which he scored 0 and 38 runs respectively. Ishan Kishan also performed brilliantly for India-A and scored 45 runs. At the same time, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, and Ravindra Jadeja played half-century innings for India.

India-A versus India intra-squad match was cut short by the management midway on the third day. The match was going to continue on Monday, June 16. But the management cut short the match after two and a half days.