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Twitterati Demands Comeback Of Hardik Pandya In The Test Squad
By CricShots - Dec 15, 2018 2:45 pm
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The Indian selectors headed by MSK Prasad picked the Test squad for the Australia series without an all-rounder with Hardik Pandya injured. Moreover, during the selections, Prasad also acknowledged that there is no player in the domestic cricket at the moment who can match Pandya’s abilities. The seam-bowling all-rounder injured his back during the Asia Cup in September and since then he has been missing the international cricket.

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Hardik Pandya

Even the Indian skipper Virat Kohli expressed concern about missing Hardik ahead of the Test series. But now it seems that there might be a change in the squad before the Boxing Day Test. Hardik, who was earlier picked in India A squad for three One-Dayers in New Zealand, chose to not to go there and decided to play in Ranji Trophy for Baroda to prove his fitness.

The flamboyant all-rounder, playing first-class cricket after a long time, didn’t disappoint and picked up a five-wicket haul against Mumbai. He sent down almost 19 overs relentlessly and didn’t look in discomfort.

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Moreover, Hardik also picked five wickets to announce his return to the arena. Interestingly, he took the new ball for Baroda and scalped a couple of top-order batsmen in Aditya Tare and Vikrant Vilas Auti. He made a comeback for another spell late in the day and proved his worth by sending back Shivam Dube who is in great form this season.

Mumbai were bundled out for 465 on Day 2 even as Hardik Pandya ended with the decent figures of 5/81. This innings proved that the cricketer is fit again and raring to go at least with the ball while the selectors might now have a keen eye on how he bats now.

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Pandya played for Baroda

Hardik’s inclusion provides great balance to the team and if he bowls like he did during the third Test in England when he rattled the hosts with five wickets, India can really hit the Aussies hard.

Meanwhile, even Twitterati was delighted to see Pandya make a comeback and perform extremely well. It will be interesting to see if he will be travelling down under in the next few days.

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Here are some of the tweets:

https://twitter.com/visaagan16/status/1073834751830544384

https://twitter.com/Rohit_05782/status/1073810952712347648

https://twitter.com/ashwin91/status/1073799914910408704