In the last few years, this has happened very rarely in Indian cricket, when Team India has had to save its face in a series. Especially in the last two and a half to three years, the Indian team has been the most powerful in the world in T20 cricket and two consecutive T20 World Cups are proof of this. But suddenly the weather has changed and defeat has rained on Team India. After the clean sweep against Ireland, now a similar situation has happened against England and the challenge is to avoid this embarrassment in the last match to be played in Southampton and this time Hardik Pandya is not there to make it win in Southampton.
Hardik had given victory
In the fourth T20 match played in Bristol, Team India had to face defeat by 9 wickets. With this, England defeated India for the first time in a T20 series (series of 2 or more matches). The Indian team has not got any victory so far in this series (this entire UK tour). The very first match of the series was canceled due to rain and England won the next three matches. So now Team India in the last match There is a danger of being wiped out. The question is who will save the team from this?
The answer to this will be known only after the start of the match on Saturday. But let us definitely tell you that last time when India and England teams clashed in Southampton, Team India had won. The hero of India’s victory was Hardik Pandya, who is not a part of Team India in this series. In that match, some players including the then Indian captain Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal made important contributions with the ball or bat, but the biggest face of that victory was Hardik Pandya.
How was Hardik Pandya’s performance?
There was a clash between India and England on the ground of Southampton in 2022. This is the only match between India and England in T20 on this ground. In this match, Team India, batting first, scored 198 runs and then restricted England to 148 runs. But Hardik scored the most runs. The Indian all-rounder scored the maximum of 51 runs in 33 balls. After this he did wonders with the ball and took 4 wickets for just 33 runs. India won that match by 50 runs and Pandya got the award for it. Now will any other player be able to show feats like Hardik?
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