It is Mumbai cricket and the Mumbai Ranji Trophy team that has helped me get a national call-up," 24-year-old Shardul told PTI during an interaction. "This year, we were a very young Mumbai team that won the Ranji Trophy. "My strength is my outswing delivery but I have been working on my inswing with the Mumbai Ranji team's bowling coach Omkar Salvi." It is the rigours of Mumbai cricket that helped young Shardul Thakur toughen up and he attributed his maiden India call-up to the extra effort that one is expected to put in while stepping in to play for the 41-time Ranji Trophy champions. "I strongly believe that the cricket culture in Mumbai is such that if a young cricketer can survive its rigours, he is certainly destined for bigger things.

Source: dna May 23, 2016 08:09 UTC