The Former Indian Captain Sunil Gavaskar calls Hardik Pandya All rounder as Gujarat Titans beat Rajasthan Royals on Sunday at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad.
No one expected such an excellent and magnificent show to happen from Gujarat Titans under Hardik Pandya’s captaincy.
At Narendra Modi stadium, on Sunday, ‘GT’ beat ‘RR’ by 7 wickets to lift the IPL 2022 trophy.
The former Indian Captain Sunil Gavaskar was very impressed by Hardik’s performance throughout the tournament.
IPL 2022 was the first game Hardik played after the T20 world cup 2021 which is why many doubts were surrounding.
But Hardik’s performance throughout the tournament impressed everyone.
He finished with 487 runs in the tournament at 44.27 and a strike rate of 131.26 while also picking eight wickets at an economy rate of 7.27.
Sunil Gavaskar’s comments-
The legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar commented and praised Hardik Pandya while saying, ‘The selection committee will be delighted with the way he has come through. Everyone had seen him batting but nobody had seen him bowl.
Now he is coming and bowling four overs sometimes or three overs on the trot which shows that he is 100 percent fit.’
‘But yes he has got to be managed well. When you have a back injury as serious as that where you have a surgery, you have to be managed.
But the fact that he is coming and bowling at over 140, which means he was letting it rip’, Sunil Gavaskar added.
However, the former captain was very impressed by Hardik’s shot selection and called it ‘terrific shot’.
Although, Sunil Gavaskar said that, In this game you tend to look for six and get out but generally with captaincy, just like it did with Rohit Sharma, the short selection became better.
Rohit, too like Hardik was brilliant, but the moment he got the captaincy, he started scoring 70, 80, 100s as well, Sunil Gavaskar added.
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Published By: Sandipan Dutta
