Former India participant Praveen Kumar ripped into Hardik Pandya on Thursday, saying that the all rounder needs to be pulled up for skipping the home crimson ball tournaments and be meted out the identical remedy that BCCI did to Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan.
“Hardik Pandya kya chaand se utar ke aaya hai? Khelna padega isko bhi. Kyun iske liye alag niyaam hain? Osko bhi board ko dhamkaana chahiye. Kyun khel lega? Teeno format khel na. Ya tu abhi 60-70 Take a look at matches khekl chuka hain ki abhi sirf T20s khelega. Nation ko tumhari zaroorat hain (Has Hardik Pandya descended from the moon? He has to play too. Why are there totally different guidelines for him? The BCCI ought to threaten him. Why would you play simply the home T20 event? Play all three codecs. Or have you ever performed 60-70 Take a look at matches that you’ll simply play T20. The nation wants you),” Kumar mentioned in Shubhankar Mishra’s YouTube channel.
This isn’t the primary time that Kumar had slammed Pandya. Earlier within the week he had criticized the Mumbai Indians captain for his health points.
“You get injured two months earlier than the IPL, you don’t play for the nation, you don’t play in your state in home cricket, and simply instantly play within the IPL. That’s not how issues needs to be finished. It’s okay to earn cash, there’s nothing flawed with that. However you must play for state and nation and now individuals solely give significance to the IPL,” he had mentioned.
As controversy surrounding the choice to omit Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan from the central contracts checklist nonetheless rumbles on, there was loads of dialogue about Hardik Pandya’s inclusion as properly. The Indian Specific had reported that the selectors and the BCCI solely handed Hardik a contract after the all-rounder gave an endeavor that if there aren’t any white-ball commitments with the nationwide group, he would characteristic for Baroda within the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20s and Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Throughout the assembly, aside from Shreyas and Ishan, there was dialogue relating to Pandya’s place in Grade A of the annual contract checklist as properly. Since injuring his ankle throughout the World Cup in October, Pandya not too long ago returned to aggressive cricket within the DY Patil event.
In response to a high BCCI official, Pandya had given assurance that he would characteristic in home tournaments in the event that they don’t overlap with worldwide commitments.