IPL 2025: 'Easy to Sit in Studio' - Shardul Thakur Slams Commentators For Criticism of LSG Bowling Attack

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Indian all-rounder Shardul Thakur has hit out commentators for crticizing the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) bowling attack since the start of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, saying it's "easy to sit in studio and comment".

Hit by injury to majority of their pace attack at the start of the season, LSG had one of the weakest bowling unit in the competition with quartet of Indian pacers - Mayank Yadav, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan and Mohsin Khan on the sidelines.

While Shardul replaced Mohsin, Akash Deep and Avesh Khan have returned the team with Mayank also expected to join the team in the coming weeks. Despite starting with one of the weakest bowling attacks, LSG have coped well and fired as a unit with Shardul playing a huge role.

The 33-year-old pace all-rounder, who was ignored at the auction, has made telling contributions, taking wickets at every passage of play and bowled well in the death overs. Following the match, Shardul took a dig at the doubters.

"I've always believed that, as a bowling unit, we've bowled well throughout the season. A lot of times in commentary, there's criticism; they try to be hard on the bowlers. But you have to understand that cricket is moving in a certain direction where 200+ scores are becoming more common," Shardul said while speaking in the post-match press conference.

"Like you said, criticism will always be there, especially from commentators. It's easy to sit in a studio and comment on someone's bowling, but they don't see the real picture out there on the ground.

"Credit to us that we've defended scores on two occasions when we batted first. We put up a good score, the pitch became better for batting and even with drastic changes, we managed to defend, one game by 10 runs, one by 4 runs in Kolkata," Shardul said.