Shikhar Dhawan led India defeated team Sri Lanka to win the 3-match ODI series by 2-1. Notably, the second-string squad of India has many youngsters on the side. Shikhar Dhawan was appointed captain in the absence of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.
Other than many young players India had some experienced names like Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar, and Hardik Pandya. The experienced players were expected to deliver great performances. However, all-rounder Pandya failed badly in the series.
The star all-rounder Hardik Pandya was in the news for negative reasons. Notably, Hardik wasn’t able to deliver the bowling spells for India due to a back injury. The Sri Lanka series was the first in a very long where fans saw Hardik Pandya as a complete all-rounder. Although the all-rounder definitely failed to leave an impact in the series. Pandya failed to deliver good performances both with ball and bat.
In the first game against Sri Lanka in Colombo, Pandya didn’t get the opportunity to bat. However, he bowled 5 overs and gave 34 runs picking 1 wicket. During the second ODI Hardik Pandya got an opportunity to both bat and ball and he failed in both fields.
Hardik Pandya scored 19 runs and picked two wickets in the series
With the ball, he delivered 4 overs and went wicketless, and got out on duck while batting. In the third ODI Hardik scored 19 runs and with the ball gave 43 runs in 5 overs picking one wicket.
Meanwhile, the T20 World Cup is just a few months away and India needs a fast-bowling all-rounder in the event. Hardik Pandya is undoubtedly the best pace all-rounder India currently has. India would love to have Hardik Pandya in his prime form before the marquee tournament. After the poor run in ODI format, fans will be expecting Hardik to perform well in the T20I series against Sri Lanka.
Fans on social media expressed their disappointment towards Hardik Pandya’s form. Also, Fans bashed Pandya for his poor run in the series.
Here are some tweets regarding Hardik Pandya matter:
https://twitter.com/MrKavi_dev/status/1418610667196608515?s=19
https://twitter.com/jay_aswani111/status/1417509727227973632?s=19
https://twitter.com/KrunalD98161941/status/1418586384332333067?s=19
Indian cricket fans to @hardikpandya7 right now pic.twitter.com/84MP6kKUyF
— Goutam Guruprasad Jena (@goutam_guddu_) July 23, 2021
#hardikpandya overconfident and arrogant, sorry to say he does not deserve to be in the team
— siddharth arora (@siddhar98531723) July 23, 2021
https://twitter.com/Ramsubramaniam6/status/1418808665780506626?s=19
Hardik pandya in this series pic.twitter.com/maZUKbNLHk
— Pranit More (@Rj_pranit) July 24, 2021
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