‘That 12 months was a 12 months the place…’
It was a season to neglect for star India all-rounder Hardik Pandya in the course of the Indian Premier League 2024 as a skipper for Mumbai Indians (MI). The 12 months was a experience filled with emotional ups and downs for him from getting booed in the whole IPL 2024 season adopted by taking part in an important position in India’s T20 World Cup 2024 win within the Caribbean.
Not too long ago, the star all-rounder was additionally part of India’s Champion squad that lifted the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 title. He performed an important position in a few matches for India within the Champions Trophy 2025 to assist his aspect win.
In the identical line of occasions, Hardik Pandya lastly broke his silence on his nightmarish experiences as MI skipper in IPL 2024, by which he took over the costs from the previous skipper Rohit Sharma.
“It is at all times about when you do not go away the battlefield” – Hardik Pandya
The five-time IPL-winning skipper getting ignored from captaincy didn’t go down properly with quite a lot of MI followers, particularly the Rohit Sharma followers. It additionally occurred to price so much for the newly appointed skipper, Hardik Pandya. Even at MI’s residence floor, Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, the gang booed him to the extent that former India batter and broadcaster Sanjay Manjrekar needed to ask them to ‘behave’ on the time of the toss when issues had been on air on nationwide tv.
“It is at all times about when you do not go away the battlefield. For me, it was about surviving, possibly not profitable. That 12 months was a 12 months the place, for the longest time, I needed to maintain my floor, not go away the battlefield which was the bottom. I realised how all the things was panning out, that cricket shall be my greatest pal, and he’ll get me out of it,” mentioned Hardik Pandya on JioStar’s ‘Superstars’ collection.
“Yeah, it saved, I saved pushing, saved pushing. And I feel when all of the exhausting work and all the things got here, I do not assume I would not be capable to write a script, which it turned out to be in my life. These six months of my part the place profitable the World Cup and coming again and getting the sort of love we obtained. I feel it was a whole 360-degree turnaround for me. And I feel cricket was one thing which I knew that if I’m persistent, if I’m sincere with my work, if I’m hardworking, I feel I am going to be capable to come out of this. However after I did not know, as precisely mentioned, it was written within the script by the God the place it turned out to be two and a half months,” he added later.
