Former Indian all-rounder Sanjay Bangar has praised Hardik Pandya for his versatility of taking part in completely different roles in several positions. The star all-rounder made a major mark on his worldwide return towards South Africa within the first T20I match. He scored an unbeaten 31 runs off simply 12 balls to information the house aspect to 211 runs whereas batting first. Nevertheless, the bowlers, together with Hardik, didn’t defend this huge whole as unbeaten fifties from Rassie van der Dussen and David Miller guided Proteas to a seven-wicket win with 5 balls remaining.
For the unversed, Hardik had final performed for India in final 12 months’s T20 World Cup. Making an ideal comeback from his again harm, the Gujarat Titans skipper excelled throughout all departments within the Indian Premier League 2022 season. He batted at quantity 5 within the opening T20I with Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant coming forward of him. Nevertheless, he embraced the problem and performed an excellent knock on return.
Hardik Pandya has labored very effectively on his sport’s basis: Sanjay Bangar
Notably, Pandya performed the anchor position with the Titans with a strike charge of round 130. However he holds the strike charge above 250 whereas taking part in on the quantity 4 place for Workforce India in T20Is. Former Indian head coach Sanjay Bangar additionally praised the participant’s versatility of taking part in in several positions with completely different roles.
“He’s an especially versatile participant who has labored very effectively on his sport’s basis. You’ll be able to play him at No. 4 additionally and at No. 6 as effectively.” Bangar whereas interacting on Star Sports activities.
“Every time I used to speak to Hardik, he used to all the time say that he needs to have a very good basis, he all the time paid a whole lot of consideration to that. That may be a transformation. When your sport is sorted out, you possibly can mildew your sport in keeping with each state of affairs,” he added.
In the meantime, Hardik struggled along with his bowling, conceding 18 runs in his solely over within the match. The previous Mumbai Indians participant additionally drew undesirable criticism from the followers and pundits for denying a single to Dinesh Karthik within the ultimate over.
