Hardik Pandya Biography: Wiki, Career, Age, Family, Net Worth

Hardik Pandya Biography: Hardik Pandya Biography: Hardik Himanshu Pandya is an Indian cricket player. He was born on 11 October 1993. He is from Surat, Gujarat. He plays as captain for Baroda Cricket Team and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. News 18. 7 February 2022 Accessed 7 February 2022. Missing or blank | Pandya was also the captain of Gujarat team from 2022 IPL. Pandya is a right-arm medium fast bowler and right-handed middle-order batsman. He started his career with Twenty20 against Australia on 26 January 2023.

In IPL 2022, under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya, Gujarat Titans have created history by winning the title in their debut season itself.

Hardik Pandya has been given the command of Team India for the 2022 Ireland tour. Team India has to play a two-match T-20 series against Ireland before the England tour.

Hardik Pandya Biography

Hardik Pandya family

Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya was born on 11 October 1993 in Surat, Gujarat. His full name is Hardik Himanshu Pandya. Hardik’s father’s name is Himanshu Pandya, who used to work in car insurance. His mother’s name is Nalini Pandya, who is a housewife. Hardik’s elder brother Krunal Pandya. He is also a cricketer and has played for the Indian team. Hardik’s father likes cricket very much. He did not miss any match of Team India. He left no stone unturned in making both his sons cricketers and fully supported them. At the same time, in January 2020, Hardik Pandya married Serbian Indian actress Natasha Stankovic. They have a son, whose name is Agastya Pandya.

Career 

Pandya played a key role in Baroda winning the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in the 2013–14 season. In January 2016, he scored an unbeaten 86 runs in which he hit eight sixes. Led his team Baroda to a six-wicket win over Vidarbha cricket team to win the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Indian Premier League

Pandya played for Mumbai Indians in the IPL from 2015 to 2021. In a must-win match for Mumbai Indians against Kolkata Knight Riders to stay in the playoff race, he won the match for his team by scoring 61 runs on 31 balls. In this match, he was given the title of second man of the match of the season. He was then signed by the Ahmedabad franchise, Gujarat Titans and was named the captain of the team. Pandya led Gujarat to their first IPL title in 2022. He became the first captain after Shane Warne to lead a new team and win the IPL title.

International Career 

Pandya made his Twenty20 International debut for India on 27 January 2016 at the age of 22, taking 2 wickets against Australia. In the second T20 against Sri Lanka in Ranchi, he batted ahead of Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni and Thisara Perera scored 27 runs in 14 balls before becoming the victim of a hat-trick. In the Asia Cup 2016, Pandya scored 31 runs in 18 balls to help India post a respectable score against Bangladesh. Later, he also took a wicket to seal the win. In the next match against Pakistan, he also took 3 wickets for 8 runs which was his best performance and restricted Pakistan to 83.

In September 2021, Pandya was named in India’s squad for the 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. However, Pandya failed to make the impact as expected. He had scored 11 runs against Pakistan. Pandya was selected as an all-rounder. However he bowled only 2 overs against New Zealand without taking any wickets and gave away 17 runs. His lack of runs and inability to contribute with the ball led to him being dropped from the squad for the post-World Cup T20I series against New Zealand.

Hardik Pandya Car Collection 

Hardik Pandya’s Net Worth

Hardik Pandya’s net worth is around Rs 91 crore ($11 million) as of March 24, 2024, as reported by SportsKeeda. He earns most of his money from playing cricket and advertising

Hardik earns around Rs 1.2 crore every month, which is much more than his earlier earnings. He also has a contract with BCCI which pays him ₹5 crore every year.

Hardik Pandya’s social media 

Instagram: @hardikpandya93

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Twitter: @hardikpandya7

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