Indian team’s key player Hardik Pandya is celebrating his 32nd birthday today i.e. on 11th October. The position that Hardik achieved through his hard work is not easily achieved by everyone. However, it was not so easy for Hardik Pandya to reach here. But he also lived his struggles openly. He faced difficult circumstances and achieved fame through hard work. So let us know about some interesting things related to the life of Hardik Pandya on the occasion of his birthday…
Birth and family
Hardik Pandya was born on 11 October 1933 in an ordinary family in Surat city of Gujarat. His father Himanshu used to do finance business in Surat, Gujarat. Then in the year 1998, his father stopped this work and came to Vadodara with the family. Father Himanshu himself was a cricket lover and Hardik also got inspiration from his father to become a cricketer. Despite the condition at home not being good, Hardik Pandya and his brother Kiran were sent to More Academy, from here Hardik’s journey of becoming a cricketer started.
Joined Mumbai Indians team
In the year 2015, IPL team Mumbai Indians bought Hardik Pandya. After joining Mumbai, he was entered in the Indian team and in the year 2016, Hardik played his first match for India. The lack of fast bowling in the Indian team was filled by Hardik Pandya. In the year 2018, Hardik established himself as an all-rounder and his journey started from the Asia Cup in the year 2018. But this season was not good for Hardik.
Hardik came under the target of trolls
Hardik had suffered a back injury against Pakistan. After which Hardik missed some matches and then when he returned to Team India, he once again got injured. There was a lot of criticism regarding Hardik’s selection in the 2021 T20 World Cup. At that time Hardik was not able to do anything with neither bat nor ball. Team India was again out of the World Cup after losing matches against Pakistan and New Zealand and then everyone started targeting Hardik. Hardik was dropped from the team due to lack of fitness.
After this, Hardik Pandya trained hard and then returned to the cricket field through IPL and Hardik Pandya won the title for the first time under his captaincy to Gujarat Titans. In the year 2024, Hardik returned to Mumbai Indians and was given the command of the team. But during this period, the performance of Mumbai team under the captaincy of Hardik was very disappointing. In such a situation, the trolls made Hardik their victim in the middle of the field.
personal life
Hardik Pandya faced many difficulties in his life and his love life left him. In the year 2024, Hardik and Natasha got divorced with mutual consent. Both of them gave this information on social media. In the year 2020, Hardik and Natasha got married during the lockdown. But after some time, things did not go well between them and they parted ways. However, Hardik and Natasha decided to raise their son Agastya together.