Hardik Himanshu Pandya (born 11 October 1993) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Baroda cricket team. He is an all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium-fast.
He made his Twenty20 International debut for India on 27 January 2016 at the age of 22, picking up 2 wickets against Australia. His first Twenty20 International wicket was Chris Lynn.
In second T20I against Sri Lanka cricket team at Ranchi, he came ahead of Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni and hit 27 off 14 balls before becoming hat-trick victim of Thisara Perera.
In Asia Cup 2016, he smashed 31 off 18 balls which helped India to a respectable score against Bangladesh. Later on, he also picked up a wicket to secure the win. In the next match against Pakistan he bowled his career best figures of 3 for 8 which restricted Pakistan to 83.
In Asia cup 2016, he picked up a combine hat trick against Pakistan (2wickets on last two balls) and Sri Lanka (1 wickets on 1st ball)
On 23 March 2016, in an 2016 ICC World Twenty20 match against Bangladesh, Pandya took two crucial wickets in the last 3 balls of last over of the match as India beat Bangladesh by one run.[9]
He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for India against New Zealand on 16 October 2016 at Dharamshala and took 3 wickets and helped India to win by 6 wickets and became the fourth Indian to be Man of the Match on ODI debut after Sandeep Patil, Mohit Sharma and K. L. Rahul .[10][11] He received his ODI cap from Kapil Dev, who himself made his test debut on 16 October, year was 1978. He, in his first ODI batting innings scored 36 runs from 32 balls with 3 boundaries.
In November 2016 he was added to India's Test squad for their series against England.Though he got injured while training in the nets at the PCA Stadium and released from the squad.
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