Hardik Pandia

Hardik Himanshu Pandya (born 11 October 1993) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for Baroda in domestic cricket and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He is an all-rounderwho bats right-handed and bowls right-arm fast-medium. He is the younger brother of Krunal Pandya. He was suspended for a brief time by The BCCI over his controversial comments on the Indian TV show Koffee with Karan and had to miss five ODI matches.

Contents

• 1Early years
• 2Domestic career
• 3International career
  • 3.1T20Is
  • 3.2ODI career
  • 3.3Test career
• 4Controversy
• 5References
• 6External links

Early years

Hardik Pandya was born on 11 October 1993 in Surat, Gujarat. His father Himanshu Pandya ran a small car finance business in Surat which he shut down and, shifted to Vadodara when Hardik was five, in order to facilitate his sons with better cricket training facilities. He enrolled his two sons (Hardik and Krunal) into Kiran More‘s cricket academy in Vadodara.^[2] Financially weak, the Pandya family lived in a rented apartment in Gorwa, with the brothers using a second-hand car to travel to the cricket ground.^[3] Hardik studied at the MK High School till ninth grade before dropping out to focus on cricket.