Hardik Pandya's downfall began within the 50-over World Cup match towards Bangladesh final 12 months, however the star all-rounder has all the time believed that if one acts with braveness, luck favours one. First a collection of accidents that saved him out for 4 months after which a really topsy-turvy two months as captain of Mumbai Indians within the IPL, there was no ray of hope for India's greatest all-rounder in up to date instances, till he discovered his rhythm again on this T20 World Cup.
“I’ve been lucky to play for the nation, I had a freak damage, I wished to return again however God had different plans,” Pandya stated after scoring 50 off 27 balls and taking a wicket in India's 50-run win over Bangladesh.
Coincidentally, this was towards Bangladesh, though the World Cup format was totally different, and Pandya was injured.
“I used to be speaking to our coach Rahul sir (Dravid) and he stated 'luck involves those that work exhausting' and that stayed with me for a very long time,” stated Pandya, who received the Participant of the Match award on the day.
“We’ve performed actually good cricket. Above all, we’ve got stayed united and executed our plans.”
Earlier, Pandya's half-century and contributions from Virat Kohli (37), Rishabh Pant (36) and Shivam Dube (34) helped India put up 196 for five after being invited to bat.
He predicted on the break that it will be sufficient.
“The wicket seemed advantageous, the rating would have been 180 however we managed to attain 196. It’s a good rating,” Pandya informed broadcasters throughout the innings break.
He additionally praised Dubey, who has been struggling to date, for taking part in a affected person innings underneath strain.
“When Shivam obtained out, a couple of wickets had fallen. They needed to take their time and we got here again properly. Their power is to get the spinners out.
“When the time got here, after we may work exhausting, then we centered on his bowling,” Pandya stated.
The star all-rounder believes that the pitch will get slower because the match progresses.
“After all the ball slows down in direction of the tip, there have been a couple of balls that have been slipping after I was bowling the best size, self-discipline and good bowling will do the trick.”
There was a powerful wind blowing on the Sir Viv Richards Stadium and Pandya talked about making use of the wind.
He stated, “I noticed that the batsmen need to make the most of the wind, I made positive that I didn’t give them any likelihood in line with the path of the wind, it was about staying one step forward as a batsman.” Pandya agreed that there’s scope for enchancment as a batting unit.
“As a bunch we are able to get higher in a variety of areas, shedding wickets continuously is one thing we are able to enhance and get higher at, aside from that, we’re doing properly.”
Ashwin's opinion on particular person scores
In the meantime, senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, one of many astute analysts amongst lively worldwide cricketers, stated it’s time followers checked out impactful knocks of 20 and 30 runs nearly as good contributions fairly than milestone half-centuries or centuries.
“We aren’t used to an method the place batsmen concede runs after scoring 30 or 20 runs however it’s time we adopted such an method, particularly whereas batting first,” he added.
“All of the Indian batsmen have been excellent to date,” Ashwin wrote on Instagram, referring to India coming near 200 with just one half-century and three contributions of greater than 30 runs.
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