In fact, Hardik Pandya’s absence from Mumbai Indians playing XI for the final two Indian Premier League (IPL) matches has raised questions almost his fitness. As the star all-rounder is being picked by Indian selectors. For the upcoming T20 World Cup to be held in UAE and Oman, later this year.
Pandya, who has barely bowled ever since returning to activity after back surgery final year. That is however to be included within the Mumbai Indians squad so far.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Be that as it may, the Mumbai Indians bowling coach on Thursday attested that the all-rounder is training well and ideally he will be back for the next match. Mumbai Indians will confront Royal Challengers Bangalore on Sunday.
“Look, Hardik is training well, like Rohit. He is getting closer to playing. We are obviously balancing the needs of our team with the needs of Team India as well,” Bond said at the post-match press conference when asked about Hardik’s status.
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“The one thing that this franchise does very well is looked after its players with an eye on not only to try and win this competition but also on the T20 World Cup that’s following on,” said the former New Zealand speedster.
“We are hopeful that Hardik will be back for the next match. As I said, he has trained today and trained pretty well by all counts,” he added
Bond sponsored the group management’s choice to not play Hardik within the first two matches.
“We are obviously desperate to put him back out on the field. But like anything, you have to balance everything up, you have to also consider what the player wants,” he said.
“There’s too no point surging him back to induce harmed to miss the rest of the competition when we may have a chance to win it.
“I think we are doing the correct thing and confidence (that) we’ll get him back in the blink of an eye. He’ll have an effect on the back-end of the competition. And get us into the playoffs and ideally win the competition from there.”
Mumbai Indians endured a seven-wicket misfortune to Kolkata Knight Riders on Thursday in their IPL diversion. It was after their 20-run misfortune to Chennai Super Kings within the first game after the resumption.
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