Xtra Time Web Desk: Hardik Pandya on Sunday indirectly made it clear that he won’t mind staying back in Australia for the upcoming test series that will follow the T20I matches. And why not given the rich form he has been in Down Under. The lanky all rounder has been in scintillating form through the white ball series so far.
Hardik, whose unbeaten 22-ball 42 helped India chase down a target of 195, said, “The biggest goal during the lockdown was to focus on finishing games when it matters the most. That was my plan and, that was the learning throughout. I had a chat with my brother Krunal about this always.”
On a day when close to 400 runs were scored, T. Natarajan finished with two for 20. Hardik said he thought that the left-arm pacer would have been the ‘player-of-the-match.’
“He got us the break and the runs he saved proved to be the difference. For the kind of start Australia had, I felt that they were short by 10-15 runs and knew we could win if we batted well,” said Hardik.
“I am so impressed with him [Natarajan] because he keeps it very simple and doesn’t complicate things. If you tell him ‘go bowl a yorker or a wide slower one’, he goes and does that. It is a learning for a lot of people that if you keep it simple, it can benefit you,” he said.