Former Indian opener heaps praise on Hardik Pandya’s captaincy following series win against Sri Lanka
Hardik Pandya (Source: Twitter)
Former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir has picked Hardik Pandya’s captaincy as one of the positives for India from the recently concluded T20I series against Sri Lanka. The ‘Men-in-Blue’ won the three-match series by the margin of 2-1 after they won the series decider by 91 runs in Rajkot on Saturday.
During a conversation on Star Sports show ‘Follow the blues’ showered praise on Hardik saying that he hasn’t done anything wrong in the series.
“I think a lot of positives in this series. I think Hardik’s captaincy, you have got to probably give it to him because he has done everything possible right what was asked of his captaincy,” Gambhir added.
Gambhir further hailed Umran Malik, Rahul Tripathi and Suryakumar Yadav for their performances throughout the series.
“More importantly, the way the young bowlers bowled – Umran Malik. Suryakumar Yadav’s batting, the cameo from Rahul Tripathi. So I believe there have been excellent signs in this series from this young team,” he added.
Umran picked up seven wickets and was the highest wicket-taker in the series. Suryakumar scored a fifty and a match-winning century in the last two games. Tripathi clobbered 35 runs off 16 balls in Rajkot to get India off to a blazing start.
It’s very difficult to look beyond Suryakumar Yadav: Gautam Gambhir
The two-time World Cup winner also picked Suryakumar Yadav as his performer of the series.
“It’s very difficult to look beyond Suryakumar Yadav with the kind of innings he played at Rajkot. But he is an established cricketer. I feel that Umran Malik was probably very, very impressive. A young bowler who bowled with pace, but despite that the accuracy with which he bowled, he is a huge positive,” Gambhir said.
The 41-year-old further shared his thoughts on Hardik’s captaincy and said that he handled the team professionally.
“Hardik was pretty impressive the way he captained the side. There were times when we thought that he should have bowled first but then he did the complete opposite of that but still was very professional in the way he handled his team.”
