Often being compared with India’s World Cup winning captain and all-rounder Kapil Dev, Hardik Pandya has substantiated the comparisons on many occasions with his hard-hitting abilities and brisk seam bowling. Along with his playing style, his experiments with hairstyles and hair colours make him stand out among his peers. But he plays as flamboyantly on field as he carries himself off the field. Pandya is truly a find of the Indian Premier League (IPL) as his heroics with Mumbai Indians booked his berth for the Indian cricket team. Following a successful IPL 2015 and Syed Mushtaq Ali domestic T20 tournament in 2016, the Gujarati all-rounder made his debut for Team India on January 26, 2016, in a T20I match against Australia at Adelaide. It took him a few months to break into the 50-over set up as he debuted in ODI cricket on October 16, 2016, playing New Zealand at the picturesque HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala. With a fifty on his Test debut, Pandya played his first longest-format game for India on July 26-29, 2017, against Sri Lanka at Galle.
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Senior cricketers Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdep Singh and Axar Patel returned to India's T20I squad for the Sri Lanka series after missing the recent Zimbabwe tour. Only nine players from the Zimbabwe tour made the T20I team with Suryakumar Yadav being named as new captain.
Shubman Gill led Indian cricket team to a 4-1 T20I series win against Zimbabwe and emerged as one of the candidates to become India's next T20 captain. Gill was not part of the India squad that triumphed in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 but is expected to get selected for the Sri Lanka series.
Hardik Pandya was the designated vice-captain of Team India and the deputy to Rohit Sharma during the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. He has more leadership experience at the international level compared to Suryakumar Yadav.
Suryakumar Yadav has led India in eight T20Is after the ODI World Cup 2023 - in five games against Australia and in three against South Africa. Hardik Pandya was seen as a natural successor for Rohit Sharma in T20Is but now Surya is reportedly set to become the captain for the Sri Lanka T20Is.
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Team India is scheduled to tour Sri Lanka for three T20Is and as many ODIs later this month. With Rohit Sharma retired from the shortest format, the captaincy has now been shifted to Hardik Pandya which isn't a surprise given that the latter led whenever the regular captain didn't play.
From actors to cricketers, everyone was seen having a gala time at Anant Ambani's wedding. Recently, a video of Hardik Pandya has surfaced in which he can be seen dancing with Ranveer Singh.
Hardik Pandya was a crucial cog for India in lifting the T20 World Cup 2024 as he starred with both - bat and the ball in the tournament. Hardik was bestowed the responsibility of bowling the final over of the final with all Indian hearts praying for a win.
Indian cricket team travelled to Zimbabwe for a five-match T20I series without their key players featured in the recent T20 World Cup 2024 but are likely to name the strongest possible squad for the next T20I assignment against Sri Lanka.
Natasa Stankovic is facing severe criticism for her silence on the victory of Team India and Hardik Pandya. Meanwhile, now Hardik's wife has shared a new video and said that people start judging anything without knowing it.
India's star all-rounder Hardik Pandya scored 144 runs and took 11 wickets in the recent ICC T20 World Cup 2024 to become the no.1 ICC T20 all-rounder but slipped in the latest updated standings after being rested for the ongoing Zimbabwe tour.
Some of the Indian T20 World Cup 2024 champions were invited to the Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant family Sangeet in Mumbai. Ambani addressed the star-studded function.
It has been a story of redemption for Hardik Pandya in the last few months as the Indian all-rounder came a full circle from being booed at Wankhede Stadium as Mumbai Indians captain to returning at that very venue as India's T20 World Cup hero and his brother Krunal acknowledged the same.
The Indian team received a grand Welcome upon arrival from Barbados after bringing the T20 World Cup back home. The team took a victory parade in an open bus alongside Marine Drive to the Wankhede Stadium followed by a felicitation program at the Mumbai-based stadium.
Rohit Sharma credited Hardik Pandya for bowling a match-winning last over against South Africa in the T20 World Cup 2024 final which triggered fans at Wankhede Stadium to chant 'Hardik, Hardik' during the felicitation ceremony.
It was Hardik Pandya who turned the game on its head in the final of T20 World Cup 2024 on Saturday (June 29) against South Africa. He dismissed Heinrich Klaasen on the first ball of the 17th over and that was enough for India to make a comeback and lift the trophy.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) picked its best team of the tournament from the recently concluded T20 World Cup, won by the Indian cricket team. Winning skipper, Rohit Sharma led a strong side featuring players from Afghanistan, Australia, South Africa and the West Indies.
Team India vice-captain Hardik Pandya has risen to No 3 amid a fabulous T20 World Cup 2024 campaign in the Caribbean and the USA. Hardik averages 53 with the bat and has taken eight wickets with the ball and will be aiming to continue the same in the knockouts.
Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya has struggled to impress in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 with a bat but has been in great form with a ball with five wickets in two matches so far. Hardik jumped to eighth place in the points table in the latest ICC T20I all-rounder rankings on Wednesday.
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