After getting ruled out from the ongoing home limited-overs series against Australia due to the injury, the Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya has sweat out in the gym.
Currently, the Indian national cricket team is busy to play the home T20I series against Australia. India is playing the two-match T20I series against Australia. After completion of the T20I series, they will play the five-match ODI series against the same opponent. The 25-year-old all-rounder Hardik Pandya was in both the Indian squads for these limited-overs series.
However, just ahead of the T20I series, Hardik Pandya has faced lower back stiffness. The selectors soon decided to drop him from both the squads while Ravindra Jadeja replaced him in the ODI squad. Meanwhile, the selectors haven’t announced any replacement for the T20I series.
Currently, Hardik Pandya is busy in the strength and conditioning training at NCA in Bengaluru. Recently, he posted his gym session video on his official social media accounts. We can watch his hard-work in the gym session. He seems very desperate to return to the game very soon.
After these international bilateral series, the Indian players will be busy in the IPL 2019. Hardik Pandya will play for Mumbai Indians in the upcoming IPL season. After the completion of the IPL 2019, India will participate in the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup in England and Wales. The two-time World Cup-winning team India will begin their World Cup journey on 5 June against South Africa at Southampton.
Hardik Pandya has shined since his return to international cricket
In last September, during the 2018 Asia Cup, Hardik Pandya suffered a back injury that forced him to stay away from the game for around three months. Though he returned to the national team at the end of last December, soon he faced a short suspension for making inappropriate comments about the women in a popular Indian talk show “Koffee with Karan“.
Finally, this February, the pace-bowling all-rounder played his first international game since the 2018 Asia Cup injury. Since then, he has performed very well for the national team. Many experts believe that he is going to be a crucial player for India in the upcoming World Cup.