Hardik Pandya was in scintillating form in the 1st England vs India T20I match, that was paying iat The Ageas Bowl, Southampton..
India was locking horns with England at the Ageas Bowl, Southampton. But Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya stole the show with his brilliant batting and bowling performances.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to bat first. After some quick wickets, Hardik Pandya pulled up the innings with his beautiful half-century. He took on every English bowler and smashed 51 runs in just 33 balls with help of 6 fours and one massive six. He maintained a healthy strike rate of 154.55 in this innings.
When the fans thought they had seen all the contributions of Pandya in this match at that moment Pandya came to bowl and picked up 4 important wickets in his 4 overs spell
First, he clean bowled David Malan. Then Liam Livingston went to scoop Hardik but couldn’t connect well and the ball reached wicket-keeper Dinesh Karthik’s gloves.
On his second over, he picked up the English Opener Jason Roy, who was struggling through his entire innings. Hardik didn’t stop there. He came back to spell in the 14th over and picked up Sam Curran as his 4th bunny in this match.
Dinesh Karthik missed a catch of Chris Jordan too on Hardik’s delivery, otherwise, the bowling stats of Hardik Pandya would look different and he could have completed his five-wicket haul. He ended his spell on 4-33
After coming back from injury the Indian all-rounder has shown his form everywhere from IPL to international cricket. If he can continue his form like this he would be an important asset for the Indian team in the T20 World Cup in Australia.
