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.
Read MoreHardik 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.
Indian cricketers R Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Hardik Pandya were trolled by American show The Big Bang Theory.
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.
In his last six T20I innings, Pandya had only managed to score 48 runs at a poor average of 9.69.
The Australian great has no doubt Pandya would strengthen India in Tests and contribute to their success in all conditions.
Since his international debut, Pandya has made a name for himself with his impressive match-finishing abilities and useful seam bowling.
The 23-year old all-rounder scored 222 runs with the bat and also picked up six wickets to emerge as the Player of the Tournament in the five-match ODI series vs Australia.
The 32-year old who has seen Pandya since his junior cricket days feels the comparisons should be avoided to extract the best out of the young all-rounder.
The 23-year-old Pandya played a crucial knock in the first ODI against Australia in Chennai, which eventually helped India to win the ODI by 26 runs via Duckworth Lewis method.
Pandya smashed 24 runs of Zampa's over which proved to be a decisive moment during the first ODI of the tour.
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