The flamboyant Indian all-rounder, Hardik Pandya’s career graph has witnessed a lot of ups and downs in last one year or so owing to some injuries and off-field controversies. Despite the fact that he has missed some crucial games for India, but it has been expected that he will be playing a crucial role in the ICC World Cup 2019 as he has made an impactful comeback. He has played some mind-boggling knock in the 12th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the Indian fans are eagerly waiting for him to continue his form in the showpiece event.

Hardik has been an impact player for the franchise Mumbai Indians’ (MI) as he helped his team to reach their fifth final of the tournament as he excelled both with the bat and the ball this season. In 15 matches, Hardik has amassed as many as 393 runs at a strike rate of more than 194 and also took 14 wickets, his second best after the tally of 18 last year.

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Pandya’s hard-hitting skills down the order in many games in IPL 2019 will make the Indian team management ecstatic ahead of the World Cup. Recently, the veteran all-rounder, Yuvraj Singh had praised Hardik’s performance a few days ago as well and predicted that he would do well in the mega event.

Hardik Pandya’s colleague in the Mumbai team, Yuvraj has also reemphasized that the former will be very effective in the upcoming World Cup in England and Wales. According to the latter, the rules of the event whereby a maximum of four fielders will be allowed outside the 30-yard circle between 10 to 40 overs, will help all-rounders who can chip in with both bat and ball.

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Yuvraj got very few chances in the IPL as he only managed to score 98 runs in four games with one fifty that he had scored in their first match against the Delhi Capitals. Talking about the World Cup, Yuvraj said, “It’s a five-fielder rule and part-timers don’t get away with that kind of bowling, it’s going to be tough to bowl the sixth bowler. But if you go with five (frontline) bowlers, then you know somebody has to bowl four to five overs maximum. If somebody is not bowling well, then someone has to chip in.”