Someone's loss is someone's gain they say and here is a prime example in front of us. Shardul Thakur, to the surprise of many including me, went unsold in the mega auction a couple of months back as none of the 10 teams showed interest in him. But as fate would have it, he joined the LSG camp as an injury replacement for left-arm pacer Mohsin Khan who has been ruled out of the tournament with an ACL injury. Also Read | Prince Yadav can do no wrong against the Nawabs of Hyderabad Doing it the "Lord" way LSG's first game did not go as per plans for them as they lost to DC by the slimmest margin of 1 wicket but one big positive for them in their season opener was the performance of Shardul Thakur who picked up 2/19 in 2 overs including a double-wicket over where he dismissed Jake Fraser-McGurk and Abhishek Porel. Come the second game, Shardul Thakur was come up with his best figures in IPL as he picked up 4/34 against the might of SRH on a flat Hyderabad track. Once again, he started it all off with two wickets in two balls early in the piece dismissing Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan off successive balls. LORD THAKUR 🫡🔥 pic.twitter.com/nR8qgkum8O — CricketGully (@thecricketgully) March 27, 2025 He was not done yet and came back in the backend to take out two more as he got Abhinav Manohar and Mohammad Shami in the death to finish with 4 wickets as well as the purple cap taking his tally to 6 wickets in 2 games. UNSOLD ▶️ PURPLE CAP HOLDER!LORD SHARDUL THAKUR!!! pic.twitter.com/NNPLpbJ1AS — CricketGully (@thecricketgully) March 27, 2025 100 IPL wickets for Shardul Thakur Not only did Shardul pick up his career-best figures in IPL, his first wicket today was wicket number 100 for him his IPL career and it was Abhishek Sharma who became his 100th victim. 🚨 Milestone 🚨Shardul Thakur enters the 100 wickets club in #TATAIPL 🙌An impressive 4⃣/3⃣4⃣ tonight also earns him the Purple Cap! 👏Updates ▶ https://t.co/X6vyVEvxwz#SRHvLSG | @LucknowIPL | @imShard pic.twitter.com/3NSIjmrbXC — IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) March 27, 2025 What a story, LSG would be hoping that it keeps going this way. Can LSG now go on to chase 191 and notch up their first win of the season?