IPL 2022: Hardik Pandya represents Gujarat Titans.© AFP
All eyes will be on the fitness of Hardik Pandya, who captains the Gujarat Titans team as the new franchise makes its Indian Premier League debut in 2022. The Indian star all-rounder has yet to play a single match due to a low back injury. competitive match after the 2021 ICC T20 World Cup in the UAE, which ended in November 2021. According to Gujarat Titans spin bowling coach Aashish Kapoor, Pandya has started practicing and even started bowling in the nets.
“For the past two months I have been in Bahrain, I coached the national team there. So Nehra has been in constant contact with him from the moment we held him and Nehra has spoken with him. He has also talked about how to and where to arrange practice sessions for him and get those things done,” Gujarat Titans’ spin bowling coach Aashish Kapoor told ANI.
“Asking him to play a few Ranji Trophy matches before showing up for a camp which might be in March and sometime in March mid-March. So he’s started bowling too, he told Nehra.” He started bowling, he bowls well and at least he has no problems with batting because we want to know if he can bowl for us like in the Indian team.”
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“So if he can both bowl and bat, that’s an added advantage because there aren’t too many all-rounders in India (medium pace all-rounders). He’s the only one you can think of right now, so if you If you have an all-rounder with you, then I think you’re on the bright side,” said Kapoor.
Pandya didn’t pitch much in 2021 IPL for Mumbai and he didn’t even come much for India in 2021 ICC T20 World Cup due to injury. Pandya’s contribution to his franchise as a batter and bowler will give his team management more options and will certainly add variety to the bowling attack.
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