New Delhi: There are only a few days left for the T20 World Cup to start. The Indian team has reached Australia for this big tournament. Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won India’s first T20 World Cup in 2007. However, since then India has not won a single T20 World Cup. This time under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team has a golden opportunity. After 15 years, the Indian team should win the T20 World Cup. This is the hope of every Indian fan.
A player of the Indian team is going to play an important role in this world. We are talking about Hardik Pandya. Hardik Pandya is back in the Indian team after a long time. At the same time, as soon as he returned, he has won the hearts of everyone with his batting and bowling. Today is the birthday of this stormy batsman.
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Hardik Pandya Birthday was celebrating his 29th birthday today. Hardik made his international debut in 2016 years ago. For the last one year, Hardik has shown a great performance. Not only this, he made his captaincy debut in the IPL this year. At the same time, the new team of IPL made Gujarat Titans the champion with their all-round game. He also took 8 wickets in 15 matches in IPL-2022, scoring 487 runs at an average of 44.27.
Hardik Pandya made his international debut in the 2016 T20 match against Australia in Adelaide. He was thrashed fiercely in the very first over of his international career. He had bowled a total of five wides in his very first over. Apart from this, he also had a six and a four in this over. Hardik got very scared after this over. He was afraid of ending his career. But, ‘Captain Cool’ Mahendra Singh Dhoni boosted Hardik’s confidence and asked him to bowl one more over.
A six was also hit on the second ball of this over. But, on the last ball of this over, Hardik got the wicket of Chris Lynn. After taking the first wicket of his career, Hardik started jumping with joy and reached Lynn. Seeing this act of Hardik, he got a severe reprimand from Dhoni. ‘Captain Cool’ told him, ‘You are doing this for the last time. Simply, Pandya took this thing of Dhoni in his heart and then did not look back.
Hardik Pandya got a chance to play in the T20 World Cup for the first time in 2016. In this tournament, Hardik saved India from defeat against Bangladesh. Bangladesh needed 10 runs in the last over in the match. Dhoni gave the last over to Hardik. In 3 balls of this over, two fours were eaten. But, in the end, Pandya made a spectacular comeback by taking two consecutive wickets.
After this Hardik entered the Indian team. He continued to perform brilliantly and cemented his place in the Indian team. But, then due to a back injury, he had to be out of the team for 2 years.