Irfan Pathan really feels that Hardik Pandya has actually underperformed as an all-rounder forIndia Pandya “hasn’t made that impact at the international level”, really feels Irfan.
One of the fiercely discussed inquiries in India’s 2024 T20 World Cup team has actually been Pandya’s choice. A day after Sanjay Manjrekar left Hardik Pandya out of his T20 World Cup team, Irfan Pathan has actually required the Indian monitoring to avoid providing Pandya “that much priority as they have given him so far”.
Speaking on Star Sports, the main television broadcaster of IPL 2024, Irfan claimed: “What I feel about Hardik Pandya is that Indian cricket needs to make it clear that they should not give him that much priority as they have given him so far, because we still haven’t won the World Cup.”
He included: “If you think you are a primary all-rounder, you need to make that kind of an impact at the international level. As far as the all-rounder is concerned he hasn’t made that impact at the international level, we are only thinking about the potential. We are getting confused between the IPL performances and the international performances. That’s a big difference.”
Pandya was eliminated midway via the 2023 ODI World Cup because of an ankle joint injury. He went back to cricket in the DY Patil Competition, an inter-office competition, in February, prior to playing IPL 2024, where his kind both as a captain and an all-rounder left a whole lot to be wanted.
Previously, previous India cricketer Praveen Kumar likewise examined Pandya’s dedication in the direction of betting India, implicating the BCCI of providing favoritism to the all-rounder
Speaking on those lines, Pathan stressed India should “stop giving preferences to individuals” if they intend to win ICC competitions: “First of all, he requires to play throughout the complete year. He can not choose. Indian cricket requires to quit doing that. Stop providing choices to people, if you do that, you will certainly not be winning significant competitions.
“What Australia has been doing for many years is that they are actually preferring the team game. Making everyone a superstar. Not one superstar, everybody is a superstar in the squad. If you don’t do that, you will not win big tournaments.”
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