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Shiv Thakor

England

Full name Shivsinh Jaysinh Thakor

Born October 22, 1993, Leicester

Current age 21 years 100 days

Major teams England Under-17s, England Under-19s, Leicestershire, Leicestershire 2nd XI

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium

Education Uppingham School

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
First-class	24	39	6	1288	134	39.03	2748	46.87	2	9	140	4	6
List A	24	22	3	356	83*	18.73	452	78.76	0	3	20	2	5
Twenty20	8	6	1	62	42	12.40	63	98.41	0	0	2	1	2

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w
First-class	24	22	1141	796	16	3/57	3/57	49.75	4.18	71.3	0
List A	24	17	487	577	17	4/49	4/49	33.94	7.10	28.6	1
Twenty20	8	5	78	109	6	3/30	3/30	18.16	8.38	13.0	0

Career statistics

First-class debut	Leicestershire v Loughborough MCCU at Leicester, Apr 20-22, 2011 scorecard
Last First-class	Leicestershire v Hampshire at Leicester, Sep 17-20, 2013 scorecard
List A debut	Northamptonshire v Leicestershire at Northampton, Apr 24, 2011 scorecard
Last List A	Lancashire v Leicestershire at Manchester, Aug 21, 2014 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire at Nottingham, Jun 28, 2013 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Leicestershire v Yorkshire at Leicester, Jul 28, 2013 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
1/4	Leics 2nd XI	v Essex 2nd XI	Chelmsford	16 Sep 2014	Other
45	Leics 2nd XI	v Lancs 2nd XI	Leicester	8 Sep 2014	Other OD
0/41, 11	Leics 2nd XI	v Middx 2nd XI	Leicester	26 Aug 2014	Other OD
2	Leics	v Lancashire	Manchester	21 Aug 2014	LA
4/49	Leics	v Worcs	Leicester	14 Aug 2014	LA
0, 1/36	Leics	v Yorkshire	Leicester	8 Aug 2014	LA
0/26	Leics	v Hampshire	Southampton	6 Aug 2014	LA
11, 0/29	Leics	v Gloucs	Bristol	5 Aug 2014	LA
1, 3/21	Leics	v Essex	Chelmsford	31 Jul 2014	LA
0/38, 21	Leics 2nd XI	v Warwcks 2nd	Leicester	29 Jul 2014	Other OD

Profile

Shiv Thakor's breakthrough briefly promised that Leicester's Indian community could have an exciting role model. He was first involved with the county at U-9 level, but the relationship foundered at the end of the 2014 season with his fledgling career in abeyance and he led an exodus from Grace Road and joined Derbyshire.

Blessed with sporting and academic talents, Shiv Thakor demonstrated faith in his potential as a cricketer when he turned down offers to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Cardiff, Durham and Loughborough Universities in favour of a full-time commitment to Leicestershire.

Thakor became the first Leicestershire-born player to make a century on first-class debut - as well as becoming their youngest first-class century maker - when he scored a brilliant 134 against Loughborough MCCU in 2011, sharing a county record fourth-wicket partnership of 330 with James Taylor. No stranger to extraordinary feats, he also holds the distinction of being the youngest player to make a century for Leicestershire in age-group cricket, having hit a hundred against Surrey at Under-9 level, and made double hundreds for Loughborough Grammar School (237 not out for the Under-13s) and Uppingham School. While so far seen predominantly as a batsman, he has shown himself to be a useful medium pace bowler when called upon.

After making a solid introduction to England U-19 cricket in the Test and one-day series against Sri Lanka in 2011 he was somewhat surprisingly overlooked for the Under-19 World Cup in Australia in 2012. He was selected as captain for the tour of South Africa in early 2013 only to suffer a broken finger in the opening warm-up game with the ECB insisting he return to the UK to have an operation. Surgery was delayed for nearly a year as Thakor was persuaded to manage the injury and played - against his better judgment - throughout the 2013 season. He then needed two operations in as many months as complications set in. The result was that his 2014 season was also severely disrupted and he played only six List A matches with minimal success.

Thakur's decision to put cricket above studies came after a fine 2012 season in which he averaged 61 over 10 innings in six first-class matches, including four half-centuries, topping the Leicestershire averages in both the Championship and 40-over cricket. He displayed a sturdy technique that enabled him to make an impressive unbeaten 85 on a seaming pitch in a winning cause against Hampshire at Grace Road and to bat for seven hours in two innings against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road, making 61 and 39 not out to save a draw.

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