Hardik Pandya the all-rounder who emerged as the impactful player for team India, Mumbai Indians all-rounder has earned fame recently for his match-finishing abilities and is touted as the seam bowling all-rounder that India had been looking for since Kapil Dev. The Baroda player had been on the radar of taking his showing from domestic cricket and IPL to the international stage and this year, he has in what has been a stupendous year. On Wednesday as he turns 24, the Indian team would count themselves lucky to have a big hitter like Pandya amongst them.

In the two years since he started playing for India, Pandya has made himself a fixture in the Indian team setup. After debuting in the limited overs competitions, he made his debut in Test cricket on the tour of Sri Lanka and started off with a fifty. To take that up a notch, he added a century in the third Test. Pandya had a debut to forget when he could muster just two runs against Sri Lanka in February 2016. With the ball, he failed to make an impact while conceding 18 runs in three overs.

In the current year, 2017 has seen Pandya turn aside. Where in 2016 Pandya scored 123 runs and picked up 19 wickets in 20 matches, this year he has scored 710 runs and picked up 30 wickets in 31 matches. Just this year alone, his average stands at 39.44 with one century and five half-centuries while bagging three men of the match awards

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