T20 World Cup 2024 Hardik Pandya: Now the day is approaching when Team India will be announced for the T20 World Cup 2024. It will be known later who will be the 15 Indian players who will be selected for the World Cup to be held in June, but the selectors are keeping an eye on the ongoing matches of the Indian Premier League. Meanwhile, not only is the Indian Premier League season not going well for Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya, the suspense is also deepening over his place in Team India for the T20 World Cup. Neither Hardik’s bat is working nor is he able to do wonders with the ball.
BCCI and selection committee in preparation for T20 World Cup
Meanwhile, there is news that recently a meeting was held between Indian team captain Rohit Sharma, head coach Rahul Dravid and chief selector Ajit Agarkar regarding the team selection of T20 World Cup 2024. According to the report of Indian Express, Hardik Pandya’s entry into Team India depends on how he bowls. The report says that if Hardik Pandya has to make a comeback in the Indian team, he will have to bowl continuously. According to the report, during the meeting there was a lot of discussion about the need for a player who can bat in the middle order along with seam bowling.
Failed miserably under Hardik’s captaincy
This time Hardik Pandya has got a chance to take over the captaincy of Mumbai Indians. Under his captaincy, MI team lost three consecutive matches. After this, even if we won, we won only in two matches. The team is currently at eighth position in the points table of the Indian Premier League after winning two matches and taking four points. From here, if the team moves on the path of victory, then only it will be able to cement its place in the top 4. Not only this, after becoming the captain of Mumbai, the spectators in the stadium are also continuously trolling Hardik. This thing is not hidden from anyone now. Veteran players are continuously giving their opinions regarding this matter.
Pandya’s own performance has also not been good
The problem with Hardik is that not only is his team not performing well, besides this, Hardik himself has not produced any match-winning innings with his bat. Without going too far back, if we take the match played against CSK on Sunday evening, Pandya himself handled the ball in the last over. But Dhoni hit 3 sixes back to back. Also, Pandya’s line and length also looked quite deteriorated in this over. This was that over, due to which Mumbai had to face defeat.
Need a pace bowler all-rounder in the middle order
The selection committee of BCCI wants that there should be a pace bowler in the team who can also come and bat in the last over. This will create balance in the team. Also, the captain will have a total of 6 bowling options. Hardik Pandya fits into this, but the problem is that neither his bat is running in the way for which he is known nor is he able to perform any feat in his bowling.
Only 3 wickets in Hardik’s name
Out of the 6 matches that Mumbai Indians have played so far in this year’s Indian Premier League, Hardik has bowled in 4 of them. He started the bowling in the first two matches. But during this period a lot of runs were scored on his bowling. After this he did not bowl in two matches, but after this he bowled again and gave a lot of runs. Hardik Pandya has now taken only three wickets in 4 matches and he is giving runs at an economy rate of around 12 runs. This is a problematic thing.
Hardik Pandya got injured in ODI World Cup
Hardik Pandya was also playing for the Indian team in the ODI World Cup, during which his performance was also good, but he got injured in the middle and was out of the entire World Cup. The selection committee of BCCI is also keeping in mind that if he gets injured and gets ruled out of this World Cup, then the team will be in trouble. Therefore, the selectors are taking steps regarding his selection. It remains to be seen how Hardik performs in the remaining matches and what final decision the selectors take regarding him.
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