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Already retired of the playoffs race, Mumbai Indians defeated Punjab Kings by six wickets successful their IPL 2026 lucifer successful Dharamsala connected Thursday. While MI had thing to lose, the decision near Punjab staring astatine a hard roadworthy successful the contention for the apical 4 arsenic they suffered their 5th consecutive loss.After the match, Mumbai Indians pacer Shardul Thakur made a remark that rapidly went viral connected societal media, portion speaking astir his grounds against Punjab implicit the years.In a video shared by Mumbai Indians connected societal media, a idiosyncratic asked Shardul astir his performances against Punjab portion playing for antithetic franchises."You person taken truthful galore wickets against Punjab," the idiosyncratic said.To this, Shardul replied, "I was kept retired and sent home. It's rage!"
Shardul had different beardown outing against Punjab connected Thursday, finishing with figures of 4 for 39.
His spell helped Mumbai propulsion things backmost aft Punjab made a coagulated start.Punjab yet posted 200 for 8 aft being asked to bat first. Prabhsimran Singh scored 57, portion Priyansh Arya made 27. Shardul dismissed Prabhsimran and skipper Shreyas Iyer successful the aforesaid spell to enactment Punjab nether pressure.Deepak Chahar (2/36), Corbin Bosch (1/42) and Raj Bawa (1/11) were the different wicket-takers for MI.In reply, Tilak Varma remained unbeaten connected 75 disconnected 33 balls arsenic Mumbai chased down the people of 201 with 1 shot to spare.
Will Jacks stayed not retired connected 25 disconnected 10 balls arsenic MI reached 205 for 4 successful 19.5 overs. For Punjab, Azmatullah Omarzai picked up 2 for 36.Shardul’s remark appeared to notation to his clip with Kings XI Punjab, present called Punjab Kings.The accelerated bowler was bought by the franchise successful the 2014 IPL auction and remained with them for 3 seasons. However, helium played lone 1 lucifer during that period, against Delhi Daredevils successful 2015.During the 2016 IPL season, Punjab released him midway done the tournament. At that time, Shardul had conscionable finished arsenic Mumbai’s highest wicket-taker successful their 2015-16 Ranji Trophy-winning season.A frustrated Shardul had past posted connected X, formerly Twitter: "Will play a semifinal t20 crippled time for my nine payyade sc..playing a crippled aft 2 months..ipl has done wonders .. Certainly".
