There is a good news regarding the return of Hardik Pandya. He will play in most of the group stage matches of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025-2026, which has been confirmed by the head coach of the Baroda team. All-rounder Hardik was injured during the Asia Cup, due to which he could not even play in the final against Pakistan.

Hardik Pandya is a match-winning player of white ball cricket, who got injured in the last match of Super-4 in Asia Cup against Sri Lanka. He had to bow out of the final due to a quadriceps injury. Since then he has not played competitive cricket.

When will Hardik Pandya return?

According to the report, Baroda team head coach Mukund Parmar has confirmed that Hardik Pandya will be available in most of the group stage matches of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025-2026 edition. Let us tell you that the captain of this team is his brother Krunal Pandya.

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is starting from 26th November. Baroda’s first match is against the Bengal team on Wednesday, 26 November. Baroda’s second match is with Puducherry cricket team on Friday. If not in the first then Hardik Pandya can be seen playing in the second match.

This is good news for Team India in terms of T20 World Cup 2026. This tournament is to be played in India and Sri Lanka in February-March. The full schedule of the World Cup will be released today (Tuesday) at 6:30 pm.

hardik pandya cricket career

Talking about Hardik Pandya’s cricket career, he has played in all three formats for India. He has scored 532 runs in 11 tests and taken 17 wickets. In 94 ODI and 120 T20 International matches, Hardik has scored 1904 and 1860 runs respectively. In this sequence, he has taken 98 wickets on 91 runs.

Hardik Pandya will be the captain of Mumbai Indians team in IPL 2026. He was the captain of the team in the last edition also. He has made Gujarat Titans win the IPL trophy under his captaincy. Hardik has played a total of 152 matches in IPL, in which he has scored 2749 runs and taken 78 wickets.

The Buchi Babu Cricket Tournament 2025 has started. On the very first day, Nitya Pandya played a brilliant century innings. Apart from him, Sarfaraz Khan also played a century for his team (Mumbai). Partha Kohli missed 2 runs on his half -century.

On the first day of the Buchi Babu cricket tournament, a total of 6 batsmen, including a century of Sarfaraz Khan and Nitya Pandya, scored centuries. Although Kohli could not convert his innings into a century like Pandya, he was able to score 48 runs. Pandya and Nitya are playing for the same team (Baroda). Pandya scored a century, due to this Kohli did not suffer much damage despite missing the half -century.

Hardik Pandya, who plays in the national team, also plays with the Baroda team, but Nitya Pandya is being talked about here. Pandya scored 102 runs. In this innings played in 175 balls, he hit 12 fours and 1 six. Nitya went with India’s Under-19 team on a tour of Australia last year, where Vaibhav played with Suryavanshi and Ayush Mhatre. He was the highest run -scorer for India in that series.

Shatik partnership between Nitya Pandya and Sukrit Pandey

Baroda is matching Odisha in the first match of Buchi Babu tournament. Harsh Desai started the innings with Nitya Pandya for Baroda, a 73 -run partnership between the two. Harsh was dismissed for 31 runs but Nitya batted brilliantly at the other end. Nitya Pandya, along with Sukrit Pandey, formed a century partnership with Sukrit Pandey for the second wicket.

After Nitya Pandya’s dismissal, Parth Kohli came to bat at number four, he also played an important innings. Kohli scored 48 runs, he missed 2 runs from his half -century. He hit 6 fours in this innings. On the basis of Nitya Pandya’s century innings, the score of Baroda’s team was 381/6 till the end of the first day’s play, on which he decided to take Odisha on batting on the second day.