All-rounder Hardik Pandya scored an unbeaten innings of 74 runs in 35 balls to mark a five-wicket defeat for Baroda at the hands of Gujarat. For his innings, Hardik hit six fours and five sixes. Earlier, Hardik picked up a wicket for 37 runs in four overs. On the basis of the unbeaten 43 runs in 33 balls by Akshar Patel, Gujarat had scored 184 runs for five wickets.
Hardik Pandya’s destructive innings
Indian cricket team star all-rounder Hardik Pandya drew much attention through stormy batting in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy. Playing for Baroda, Hardik Pandya hit an unbeaten innings of 74 runs in 35 balls. Hardik also hit 6 fours and 5 sixes in this innings. Due to this explosive innings of Hardik, the Baroda team defeated Gujarat by 5 wickets with three balls remaining.
Hardik Pandya depicted his talent not only in batting but also in bowling. Hardik took one wicket for 37 runs in four overs. Except for Hardik, his brother Krunal Pandya also took one wicket for Baroda in bowling. In this way, this great form of Hardik Pandya before IPL is good news for Mumbai Indians.
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Axar Patel showed his strength for Gujarat.
All-rounder Axar Patel was in his strength for the Gujarat team in the match. Axar Patel’s team batted first in the match and could score 184 runs with the loss of 5 wickets within the stipulated 20 overs. Arya Desai played the innings of 78 runs in 52 balls in Gujarat apart from this. Along with it, Axar Patel remained unbeaten after scoring 43 runs in 33 balls.
However, the bowlers of Gujarat could not defend the score made by it. Ravi Bishnoi took the highest score from the Gujarat side by taking 2 wickets for 23 runs in four overs. Apart from this, Arjan Nagavasvalla, Chetan Gaja, and Tejas Patel took one wicket each. Team captain and star bowler Akshar Patel could not do anything special in bowling. Akshar has given 31 runs in his four-over spell, but he could not take a wicket.
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