Hardik Pandya

Hardik Pandya

Pandya in August 2015
Personal information
Full name Hardik Himanshu Pandya
Born 11 October 1993
Choryasi, Surat, Gujarat
Nickname Hairy[1]
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium fast
Role All-rounder
Relations Krunal Pandya (brother)
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 215) 16 October 2016 v New Zealand
Last ODI 26 October 2016 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no. 228
T20I debut (cap 58) 26 January 2016 v Australia
Last T20I 31 March 2016 v West Indies
T20I shirt no. 33 (formerly 228)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2012/13–present Baroda cricket team
2015–present Mumbai Indians (squad no. 228)
2016–present India A
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 2 16 16 18
Runs scored 36 78 527 308
Batting average 36 11.14 27.96 30.80
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/4 0/2
Top score 36 31 90 69
Balls bowled 96 267 9422 573
Wickets 3 15 22 13
Bowling average 25.33 24.00 33.72 33.84
5 wickets in innings – 0 1 –
10 wickets in match – n/a – n/a
Best bowling 3/31 3/8 5/51 3/31
Catches/stumpings 0/0 10/– 7/- 8/-
Source: , 21 October 2016

Hardik Himanshu Pandya (born 11 October 1993) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Baroda cricket team. He is an all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium-fast.

Domestic career

Pandya has been playing for Baroda cricket team since 2013. He played a vital role in Baroda winning the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in the 2013–14 season.[2] Baroda were struggling at 20/2 in their opening match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, at the Wankhede Stadium, when Hardik walked in to bat in the fifth over and turned it around with a blistering 57-ball 82 (not out) facing the likes of Zaheer Khan, Dhawal Kulkarni and Pravin Tambe.

Baroda won the match and Hardik caught the eye of former Indian and then Mumbai Indians head coach John Wright who was present at the venue along with the Mumbai Indians think-tank. They were so impressed with the youngster that two days later they came back to watch his next match, against Gujarat cricket team.

He didn't disappoint, finishing with figures of 4–1–7–3 and scoring 37 runs. At the 2015 IPL players' auction, he was bought by the Mumbai Indians for his base price of Rs. 10 lakh.

In IPL 2015, he scored a quick fire 21 runs of 8 balls and grabbed 3 important catches to help MI beat CSK by 6 wickets and was awarded the man of the match. After the first qualifier against Chennai Super Kings, Sachin Tendulkar called over Hardik and told him that he will play for India in the next 18 months. Within one year he was chosen to play in the Indian squad during 2016 Asia Cup and 2016 ICC World Twenty20.

Later on against Kolkata Knight Riders in a must win situation for Mumbai Indians to remain in the race for the top 4 teams, he scored a quickfire 61 of 31 balls to earn his second man of the match award in the season and won the match for his side.[3] He was also awarded the 'Yes Bank maximum sixes award' for the same match.[4]

In January 2016, he slammed eight sixes during his innings unbeaten 86 to guide Baroda cricket team to a six-wicket win over Vidarbha cricket team in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.[5]

International career

He made his Twenty20 International debut for India on 27 January 2016 at the age of 22, picking up 2 wickets against Australia.[6] His first Twenty20 International wicket was Chris Lynn.

In second T20I against Sri Lanka cricket team at Ranchi, he came ahead of Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni and hit 27 off 14 balls before becoming hat-trick victim of Thisara Perera.[7]

In Asia Cup 2016, he smashed 31 off 18 balls which helped India to a respectable score against Bangladesh. Later on, he also picked up a wicket to secure the win. In the next match against Pakistan he bowled his career best figures of 3 for 8 which restricted Pakistan to 83.

In Asia cup 2016, he picked up a combine hat trick against Pakistan (2wickets on last two balls) and Sri Lanka (1 wickets on 1st ball)

On 23 March 2016, in an 2016 ICC World Twenty20 match against Bangladesh, Pandya took two crucial wickets in the last 3 balls of last over of the match as India beat Bangladesh by one run.[8]

He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for India against New Zealand on 16 October 2016 at Dharamshala and took 3 wickets and helped India to win by 6 wickets and became the fourth Indian to be Man of the Match on ODI debut after Sandeep Patil, Mohit Sharma and K. L. Rahul .[9][10] He received his ODI cap from Kapil Dev, who himself made his test debut on 16 October, year was 1978. He, in his first ODI batting innings scored 36 runs from 32 balls with 3 boundaries.

In November 2016 he was added to India's Test squad for their series against England.[11]

International awards

One Day Internationals

Man of the match awards

S No Opponent Venue Date Match Performance Result
1  New Zealand HPCA Stadium, Dharmasala 16 October 2016 7–0–31–3 ; DNB  India won by 6 wickets.[12]

References

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