Why Shardul Thakur comes to bat even after MI used Danish as impact sub - Explained

Shardul Thakur came retired to bat for Mumbai Indians during his team's lucifer vs Chennai Super Kings (CSK) successful the IPL 2026 lucifer connected Thursday. Interestingly, Shardul Thakur was not portion of the Mumbai's starting XI and adjacent not the interaction player.

Mumbai had already utilized opener Danish Malewar arsenic its interaction subordinate successful spot of Allah Ghazanfar.

Shardul Thakur came retired to bat successful the thirteenth implicit of the 2nd innings, erstwhile Noor Ahmad dismissed

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and Sherfane Rutherford connected consecutive balls. Why Shardul came to bat?Shardul Thakur came to bat arsenic the concussion substitue for Mitchell Santner, who got injured successful the archetypal innings portion trying to instrumentality a catch. Santner took 1 wicket and conceded 44 runs successful his 4 overs earlier getting injured. Mumbai Indians were 95 for 7 astatine the clip of penning the story.Earlier successful the match, Sanju Samson scored his 5th IPL century. He reached the milestone connected the last shot of the innings with a bound disconnected Krish Bhagat. It was his 2nd 100 of the season, his 2nd for Chennai Super Kings and 5th wide successful the IPL.Samson remained not retired connected 101 from 54 balls and helped Chennai Super Kings station 207 for 6. He stayed till the extremity portion wickets fell astatine the different end.He deed 10 fours and six sixes successful his innings.For Mumbai Indians, AM Ghazanfar and Ashwani Kumar took 2 wickets each, portion Jasprit Bumrah returned figures of 1 for 31.