Indian bowlers restricted England to 188/8 in their allotted 20 overs to register a 36-run win in the fifth T20I here at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Saturday.
However, he is not as effective as he used to be with the bat and former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja feels the England team has done its homework against the hard-hitter. “Hardik Pandya’s bat is not working.
Tamil Nadu defeated Baroda by seven wickets in the finals of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on Sunday to win the title. Baba Aparajith played an unbeaten knock of 29 runs to guide Tamil Nadu in the run-chase
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.
