Canberra: Shardul Thakur, over past few years has been in and out of the Indian team but the lack of consistent run hasn’t dented his determination to do well whenever Virat Kohli hands him the ball.
Asked if he is frustrated for not getting enough chances, the 29-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Palghar answered in negative. “The selection is not in my hands. It is important is that I try to win games for India whenever I play. That is my mindset,” Thakur said at the post-match press conference after India’s 13-run win.
Since his international debut in 2017, Thakur has played 27 international white ball games. “I play to win. I don’t think that I am getting just one match or I am playing as a replacement of an injured player. Once you are on ground, all players just focus on wining matches,” Thakur, who has played only 12 ODIs in more than three years, added. India will now lock horns with the hosts in the Twenty20 series but Thakur is not part of the squad and is not ready to lose sleep over it. “The team was selected long back. I was not part of the T20 squad, so I was not thinking about it.” For the world, it is a 1-2 series defeat but Thakur said that the team thinks that they are playing a six-match white ball series.
