Correct Answer: Shubham said, "My father is playing cricket with me."

Solution : The correct choice is the second option .

• The given sentence is in the reported speech, and when converting it into indirect form, the tense should be changed from the past tense (was playing) to the present tense (is playing) since the reported event is being directly quoted.
• The pronoun also changes from his father to my father to correctly quote.
• The quoted words should be in quotes (inverted commas).

Therefore, the sentence in direct form is: Shubham said, "My father is playing cricket with me."