Hardik Pandya is celebrating his birthday, how has been his career in international cricket and IPL!

Hardik Pandya is one of the most valuable players of the Indian cricket team. With his all-round performance, he has single-handedly won the matches for the Indian team and other franchise cricket. Hardik Pandya is celebrating his 31st birthday today.

His story and his journey have been amazing and the way he has improved his game and reached this point deserves praise. He faced difficulties in his early life but he never gave up.

Hardik Pandya How has been your career:

Talking about Hardik Pandya's career, when he was playing at the Wankhede ground during the Vijay Hazare Trophy, the then Mumbai Indians coach caught his eye. The coach was impressed by Hardik Pandya's performance and bought him into the Mumbai Indians squad in the IPL 2015 auction.

Hardik Pandya had performed very well in his debut season itself, in his debut match he played a short but brilliant innings against Chennai Super Kings, while he single-handedly won a match against KKR. Seeing this, Sachin Tendulkar also told him that he is going to debut for India soon.

Sachin Tendulkar was right because he made his debut for India in the beginning of 2016. In the same year, he defeated Pakistan by taking 3 wickets in his 4 overs, while who can forget his last over against Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup 2016. After a long time, the search for a pace bowling all-rounder for India was complete.

Hardik Pandya: How are the numbers in career?

Talking about Hardik Pandya's career performance, he has played 86 ODI matches for India in which he has 1769 runs in his name at a strike rate of 110 and has also taken 84 wickets in his name. In T20, he has scored 1594 runs in 104 matches and has 87 wickets in his name in this format also. In IPL, Hardik Pandya has scored 2525 runs with the bat and has also taken 64 wickets.