Hardik broke Virat Kohli’s great record, won the match by hitting a six and achieved the number-1 crown

Hardik Pandya And Virat Kohli: The Indian team defeated Bangladesh by 7 wickets in a spectacular fashion in the first T20 match. With this, Team India took a 1-0 lead in the series. Bangladesh gave India a target of 128 runs to win, which Team India achieved easily. Varun Chakraborty, Arshdeep Singh, Hardik Pandya, and Nitish Reddy performed brilliantly for the Indian team. It is because of these players that Team India was successful in registering a win. 

Hardik Pandya made a special record

Hardik Pandya scored 39 runs in 16 balls for Team India, hitting five fours and two sixes. He gave Team India a win by hitting a six in Taskin Ahmed’s over. Hardik has won matches for Team India by hitting sixes 5 times in T20 International cricket so far. Whereas Virat Kohli has won matches by hitting sixes 4 times in T20 International cricket. Now Hardik has broken Kohli’s record. He has become the Indian player who has won T20I matches the most number of times by hitting a six and has achieved the number-1 crown. Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Rishabh Pant are also present in this list. Both these players have won T20I matches by hitting sixes three times each. 

Indian players with the most winning sixes in T20I cricket: 

Hardik Pandya – 5 sixes

Virat Kohli- 4 sixes
MS Dhoni- 3 sixes
Rishabh Pant- 3 sixes
Shivam Dubey- 1 six 

Before batting, Hardik Pandya performed well in bowling. He took 1 wicket for 26 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, he was also not behind in fielding and he caught the catches of Tauheed Hridaya and Riyad Hussain. His agility is worth watching on the field. 

Such has been the career of Hardik Pandya.

Hardik Pandya has been a member of the team that won the T20 World Cup 2024 title for India. He made his T20 International debut for the Indian team in the year 2016. Since then, he has taken 87 wickets in a total of 103 T20I matches. Apart from this, he has also scored 1562 runs. He has 84 wickets in ODI cricket and 17 wickets in Tests. There have also been reports in media reports that Hardik can be included in the Indian Test team on the Australia tour and for this he can play domestic cricket. Hardik has only one century in international cricket and he has scored that in Tests only.