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Hardik Pandya past played for India successful the Asia Cup fixture vs Sri Lanka.
New Delhi: India premier white-ball all-rounder Hardik Pandya is done with his home warm-up and is each acceptable to articulation the Indian cricket squad successful Cuttack connected December 6, the time full squad volition assemble for the five-T20I bid vs South Africa.
After getting clearance from BCCI CoE, Pandya featured successful 2 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy games for Baroda vs Punjab connected December 2 and Gujarat connected December 4.As TimesofIndia.com had earlier reported, helium was scheduled to play the 3rd crippled - December 6 fixture vs Haryana - but determination has been a aboriginal alteration to that program and helium volition beryllium linking up with Suryakumar Yadav-led squad connected the aforesaid day. Some players are expected to onshore successful Cuttack a time earlier - connected December 5 - the authoritative joining day and Pandya could good beryllium 1 of them.
The last question arrangements are yet to beryllium done.
Inside details of Shubman Gill's rehab astatine BCCI CoE, acceptable to instrumentality for SA T20Is
After staying distant from cricket owed to his quadricep injury, Pandya had decent outings successful the 2 fixtures with some bat and ball. The archetypal crippled was an mean outing with the shot arsenic helium picked conscionable 1 wicket and leaked 52 runs successful 4 overs vs Punjab but was connected occurrence with the bat. The right-hander smashed 77 disconnected 42 balls, including 4 sixes, to assistance his broadside pursuit down 223 with 5 deliveries to spare.
In his last SMAT quality vs Gujarat, helium was precise with the shot during his spell of 1/16. As acold arsenic batting was concerned, determination wasn't overmuch to beryllium done successful the 74-run pursuit and helium could lend lone 10 disconnected six balls successful the humble chase.India squad for T20I bid against SA: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Shubman Gill (VC)*, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Sanju Samson (WK), Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakaravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Washington SundarNote: * Subject to fittingness clearance from BCCI COE.
