Cricket News- Hardik Pandya comments on his bowling preparation

 

Team India has recently won the five-match T20I series 3-2 against England. While the youngsters earned their call up and proved why they are worthy of that, Hardik Pandya’s bowling was one of the positives for the host as well.

He was out of bowling after he had suffered a back injury in 2019 and had to undergo surgery as well. And since then, he did not bowl for long spells in any series. However, in the recently-concluded series, the captain trusted him and gave him four overs to bowl in each match and he did quite well which will give India more flexibility in the upcoming T20 World Cup as well.

“I have been working on fine-tuning my action, but at the end of the day, you are thinking of what kind of delivery you want to bowl, It’s slightly difficult but I am coping really well. When I bat I think as a batsman and when I bowl I think as a bowler,” he said to Star Sports.

“Looking at the World Cup, in this series we wanted to try out a few things and also to break the jinx of batting first and winning, feels really great. The wicket allowed us to use more variations and make sure that the batsmen are not getting anything in their zone,” he further added.

Meanwhile, India captain Virat Kohli applauded his players after winning both the Test and T20I series convincingly. He said that the win in the final T20I was a complete performance and further added that it’s dangerous for any opposition team if their opener Rohit Sharma continues to bat that way.

He also believed that it was a complete game for them where they outplayed the opposition despite having dew. He applauded his batsmen too as their middle-order batsmen like Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer didn’t even come to bat as the top-order did the bulk of runs and put up a massive total, which showed how strong a batting unit they have and the captain believed they can do wonders if they get going together.

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