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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Pandya starred with the bat in the Champions Trophy final last year, and in the first innings of the opening Test against South Africa last week.
Currently trailing the three-match Test series by 1-0, Kohli and Co will eye a victory in Centurion to make a comeback in the series.
Pandya played a whirlwind knock of 93 runs off 95 balls to single-handedly keep the visitors in contention on day two of the first Test in Cape Town.
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Pandya appeared in a great shape in Cape Town as he scored a notable 93-run knock in India's first innings and claimed three wickets in successive innings.
In a time when India's batting order appeared collapsing like dominoes, Pandya (93) played responsible cricket and established a 99-run partnership with Bhuvneshwar Kumar (25) to stabilise the visitors in the first innings.
Rabada feels that India would come in with all guns blazing as the Virat Kohli led Team India will come back stronger and give their all on the third day.
Pandya's 93 and 2/17 has given India some toehold despite a 142-run lead currently enjoyed by the home team.
Hardik Pandya smashed 10 fours and took 46 balls to hammer a fighting half century even as the other Indian batsmen surrendered against a fiery South African pace attack.
Pandya played a significant role to guide Mumbai Indians lift the IPL trophy for the third time as he took six wickets and made 250 runs.
National chief selector MSK Prasad had justified Pandya's call-up claiming India A coach Rahul Dravid had shown his confidence in the all-round prodigy.
Mumbai Indians allrounder and Hardik Pandya's brother Krunal Pandya tied the knot with fiancee Pankhuri Sharma at a ceremony in Mumbai.
Krunal’s occasion coincided with the second reception of India skipper Virat Kohli and Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma.
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Twitter goes berserk over Hardik Pandya's new quirky hairstyle.
The all-rounder was rested for the Sri Lanka series but is looking forward towards a long tour in South Africa.
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Hardik Pandya, who was named in the squad for the first two Tests against Sri Lanka, will undergo a period of strength and conditioning at the NCA in Bengaluru.
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