new delhi former south african skipper and chennai super kings batsman faf du plessis revealed that he thought shardul thakur was just a tailender and would get out quickly in the match against sunrisers hyderabad during the indian premier league qualifier 1 in 2018in the 2018 ipl qualifier csk were chasing a small total of 140 runs when they were reduced to 62 for 6 by the srh bowlershowever du plessis valiant innings saw csk get close to the target but the team kept losing wickets at regular intervals and were reeling at 113 runs for the loss of eight wicketsit was then that shardul came into bat at number 10 and smashed 15 runs off just five balls to take his side over the linewe were in huge trouble as we had lost all our wickets its one of those games where you hope you can do something great but it seems a long way away when everyones out and just me du plessis left said du plessis in a video posted on csk youtube channelbut the guys who came in i remember shardul was unbelievable i have never seen him bat before so he came in and i was like probably gonna be a tailender he is going to hit one and then hes gonna get out but he batted even better than me there for a while he was unbelievable recalled du plessiscsk defeated srh by two wickets in the game csk in the 2018 ipl final again defeated srh to clinch their third ipl trophydu plessis would have been in action for csk in the ipl if the tournament had started on march 29 however the tournament was suspended indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic