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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Although he failed to time the ball, cleanly as he always does, he managed to hit Andrew Tye for back-to-back boundaries in the penultimate over before hitting two monstrous sixes to seal the match in India's favour.
The visitors thus avenged their 1-2 ODI series loss, chasing down a challenging 195-run target set by the home side. They won the opener in Canberra by 11 runs on Friday.
Hardik Pandya took to his official social media profile to share a picture with the Indian cricketers including captain Virat Kohli.
Sanjay Manjrekar heaped praise on India's Hardik Pandya after a stellar show with the bat in the ODI series against Australia.
Ravindra Jadeja and Hardik Pandya stitched a breathtaking and unbeaten 150-run stand in the third and final ODI of the series against Australia
Following his impressive batting, Manjrekar opioned that he his confident that Hardik will shine even if picked solely as a batsman in the ODIs.
Maxwell, who hit 59 off 38 balls, also felt that the run out of wicketkeeper Alex Carey (38) was a key moment of the game that his team lost by 13 runs
It was a memorable series for Pandya which started with a 90-run knock in the first ODI.
Hardik and Jadeja scored 110 runs in the last 10 overs, guiding India to a challenging total of 302 runs.
Pandya's fiance Natasa Stankovic takes to Instagram to celebrate their son turning four months old on the day.
Hardik Pandya bowled four overs in the second ODI between India and Australia, and took a wicket.
The duo stitches partnership to surpass S Ramesh-Robin Singh's 123-run sixth wicket partnership
Reacting to the comprehensive victory, Finch said that it was a 'perfect' performance with the bat
Two days ago, after the first One-day International, Pandya said he would bowl in the "important" games and only when the time is right.
According to Gambhir, this is the kind of problem which can't be sorted even if an opener of Rohit Sharma's calibre comes back.
The flamboyant all-rounder, who is remodelling his action after a back surgery, is still not ready for that workload which is affecting the balance of the side, an admission that came from skipper Virat Kohli himself.
Krunal is yet to make an ODI debut for India. So far he has played only in T20Is with 18 appearances.
Pandya added that he would love to bowl but he is not yet match-fit
Hardik Pandya was part of the team, but his back issues has put him in the list of one-dimensional players thus disturbing the balance that India once used to boast off.
The onslaught from Hardik Pandya on Friday at the SCG did not stop David Warner from helping him with his shoelaces.
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