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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These games were the last of the 50-over competition for India going into the World Cup commencing on May 30 in England.
Zaheer has observed that Hardik's injury is about the impact on the follow-through which has caused him problems.
Mumbai Indians has posted a picture of the team's training session at the Wankhede Stadium on their official Twitter account.
India surrendered the five-match series 2-3 to Australia despite being 2-0 up and as India's preparation for the World Cup comes to an end, questions remained regarding the team combination.
Pandya and Rahul were in the eye of a massive storm following their sexist comments on 'Koffee With Karan' in January.
Dressed in a bright sherwani, Karan Johar matched steps with Hardik Pandya, who chose a cool blue kurta with a sleeveless Nehru jacket at the lively and colourful wedding procession of Akash Ambani and Shloka Mehta.
Both Pandya and Rahul were sent home from the tour of Australia following their controversial remarks which triggered a massive controversy, leading to their provisional suspension.
Rahul and Pandya were provisionally suspended for their sexist remarks on a popular TV show but their suspension was eventually revoked pending an inquiry.
The Supreme Court had appointed its former judge DK Jain as the BCCI Ombudsman last month to resolve disputes.
Rahul hopes that it is a blessing in disguise that he courted controversy early in his international career.
The BCCI Medical team decided to rest the all-rounder and let him undergo strength and conditioning work for his lower back at the NCA.
Former Australian opener Matthew Hayden feels that Marcus Stoinis is developing into a world-class all-rounder is a tad unlucky not to be playing a little bit more Test cricket.
Rohit Sharma scored an explosive fifty in the 159-run chase to make things easy for the visitors. Now the three-match series is levelled at 1-1 with one match to spare.
Hardik Pandya and Krunal Pandya are the third set of brothers ever to play for India.
A case has been registered in Jodhpur against the trio for the comments made in Karan Johar's chat show Koffee with Karan earlier this year.
After winning the match, stand-in skipper Rohit Sharma picked out all-rounder Kedar Jadhav for special praise.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly said that the determination of this Indian team is what makes it different from other teams.
Ambati Rayudu, Hardik Pandya and Yuzvendra Chahal were the stars for India in their 35-run win over New Zealand in Wellington.
Ambati Rayudu scored 90 while Hardik Pandya smashed a 22-ball 45 and took two wickets as India beat New Zealand by 35 runs to take the five-match series 4-1.
India are runaway favourites for the 50-over global tournament after dominating series wins in Australia and New Zealand.
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