Hardik Pandya is not dependent on any introduction, he rules the hearts of everyone with his explosive performance. Hardik Pandya is such a cricketer who has earned his name all over the world in a very short time, he has done a lot with his batting and bowling. Today, in this article, we will briefly tell you the journey of Hardik Pandya from birth to his cricket career. So let's know-

Early Life and Family

of Hardik Pandya Hardik Pandya was born on 11 October 1993 in Surat (Choryasi), Gujarat. His father's name is Himanshu Pandya and his mother's name is Nalini Pandya. In Hardik Pandya's family, apart from his parents, he has an elder brother named Krunal Pandya.

Krunal is a cricketer by profession. Let us tell you that Hardik's father used to run a small car finance business in Surat, which he has now closed. He had moved to Vadodara with his family. So that both the sons could get better cricket training, at that time Hardik Pandya was only 5 years old. Hardik Pandya's family was financially weak and used to live in a rented apartment in Gorwa.

Hardik's love story and when and with whom did he get married?

In the Asia Cup and the T20 series with Australia, Hardik Pandya won everyone's heart with his explosive performance, but let us tell you that someone had won the heart of this explosive batsman 3 years ago. Hardik Pandya had lost his heart in the very first meeting with Natasha Stanovich.

Hardik Pandya always remains in news due to his performance in cricket and social life. Pandya's love story is also very interesting. According to media reports, Natasha met Hardik Pandya in a nightclub. After the first meeting, their friendship turned into love.

Hardik Pandya invited Natasha to his house on Diwali and introduced her to the family. After some time both of them got married. Pandya married Natasha during the lockdown in 2020, and Hardik announced their marriage on 31 May 2020. Natasha got famous for the song DJ Wale Babu, apart from this, Natasha has also played the role of Bigg Boss 8 and in many films.

Hardik Pandya's early cricket career

Let us tell you that Hardik Pandya's father had enrolled him in Kiran More's Cricket Academy in Vadodara. At that time Hardik Pandya was 5 years old. Let us tell you that Hardik Pandya left school in the ninth grade and started paying full attention to cricket. Both brothers used a second-hand car to go to the academy for training.

Hardik Pandya performed very well in junior cricket and won many matches. However, due to his attitude, he was removed from various state Ayush group teams. Till the age of 18, Hardik Pandya was a leg-spinner. But his coach Sanath Kumar inspired him to fast bowling.

The beginning of domestic cricket

Hardik Pandya's domestic cricket started in this way, in 2013 he joined the Baroda cricket team. His Ranji Trophy debut was not so memorable as he scored 1 and 2 runs in 2 innings against Madhya Pradesh. While in bowling, Pandya took 11 runs in 3 overs to give Baroda a massive 246-run victory. Hardik Pandya made his List A debut for Gujarat Baroda on 8 November 2014 in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Pandya played an excellent inning of 69 runs in 61 balls at a strike rate of 113.11. In which he hit six fours and two sixes.

Beginning of IPL

Tell that Hardik Pandya got a chance to play IPL in 2015. Hardik Pandya was bought by Mumbai Indians at a base price of 10 lakhs, during which Sachin came in contact with Tendulkar. Pandya played an inning of 21 runs in 8 balls against Chennai and also took 6 wickets. After the match, Sachin also predicted that Hardik would be seen playing for Team India within a year and a half, but within a year, Hardik was selected for the Asia Cup and T20 World Cup.

International cricket debut

Hardik Pandya started his international cricket career in T20,2016, Pandya played his first match for the Indian team against Australia on 27 January 2016. Hardik Pandya took 2 wickets in this match.

In the second T20 against the Sri Lankan cricket team in Ranchi, he came ahead of Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni and scored 27 runs off 14 balls, during which Thisara Perera's hat-trick became a possession and was also criticized at that time. Let us tell you that on March 23, against Bangladesh, India took two important wickets for India in the last 3 balls of the match and India defeated Bangladesh by 1 run.