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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Shivam Dube's twin fifties against Afghanistan in as many matches among many things have proved that he does belong at the international level and if he is being looked at as Hardik Pandya's backup, then there are good signs. But when Hardik returns into the squad, what happens then?
In-form Indian opener Ruturaj Gaikwad suffered a finger injury and missed the recent T20I series against South Africa and remains unavailable for the selection for the upcoming three-match home series against Afghanistan starting on January 11.
Hardik Pandya had picked up an ankle injury during India's World Cup 2023 run in October. He has been away from action ever since and has missed out on all the India games. Now, he is reportedly uncertain to play in IPL 2024 too.
India's star cricketer Suryakumar Yadav reportedly twisted his ankle during the third T20I game against South Africa in Johannesburg on December 14 and is likely to remain on the sidelines for six weeks.
Gujarat Titans traded their ex-captain Hardik Pandya in probably the biggest trade in IPL history back to the Mumbai Indians, where the all-rounder's journey began in the tournament all those years ago in 2015. Now GT coach Ashish Nehra has reacted to the whole trade saga involving Hardik.
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