The star all-rounder posted a video on Twitter for his 'Dad' expressing the pang in his heart. The video happens to be the collage of all the loving memories of Hardik and his father, right from the all-rounder's childhood
“I would love to have Hardik Pandya in the Test side. I said it weeks ago, he is among my top-three favourite cricketers on the planet, I love him. Everyone said, ‘geez, that is a big call’, and I said ‘no, he’s awesome’,”
“In T20 you have to take your chances. When Hardik (Pandya) started connecting, we thought we could pull this off but had a bit too much to do at the end.", said the Indian Skipper
"There are shorter boundaries here and we had a good game last time. For the bowling line-up as well we wanted to be more professional and test ourselves," skipper Virat Kohli said.
Wade took over the captaincy reins for the second T20 against India here on Sunday after Aaron Finch picked up an injury in the opening game in Canberra.
Chasing 163, the defending champions overhauled the target with two balls to spare and claimed the top spot in the points table with five wins from seven matches
MI’s leg-spinner lauded the duo of Pollard and Pandya and said they always believed in their abilities. We believe in batting abilities. Both of them are big hitters and are in good form.
A late onslaught by Hardik and Pollard powered Mumbai Indians to post a mammoth total of 191 runs. Mumbai defeated KXIP by 48 runs on the back of an all-round bowling performance.
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