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.

Hardik pandya retrun as captain: Suryakumar Yadav (MI) captained Mumbai Indians (Mi) against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in Chepock. Actually, in that match, the regular captain of Mumbai Indians Hardik Pandya (Hardik Pandya) did not play due to the ban. Last season Hardik Pandya was banned due to a slow over rate. However, today Hardik Pandya will be seen captaining Mumbai Indians against Gujarat Titans (GT).

Hardik Pandya will return against Gujarat Titans

However, Mumbai Indians are waiting for the first win of the season. Earlier, Mumbai Indians, captained by Suryakumar Yadav against Chennai Super Kings, had to face defeat by 4 wickets. But now the command of Mumbai Indians will be in the hands of regular captain Hardik Pandya. So, will Mumbai Indians be able to register the first win of the season against Gujarat Titans? Actually, how is the record of Mumbai Indians against Gujarat Titans? So far, Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Titans have been confronted 5 times. In which Mumbai Indians have defeated Gujarat Titans 2 times, but had to face defeat 3 times.

How is Hardik Pandya’s record as captain?

The question is that how is the record of Hardik Pandya captaincy in IPL? Actually, Hardik Pandya has captained Gujarat Titans before Mumbai Indians. The Gujarat Titans became the champion under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya. Statistics show that Hardik Pandya has captained 45 matches of IPL. In which the team of Hardik Pandya has won 26 matches as captain. Apart from this, defeat has been faced in 19 matches. In this way, Hardik Pandya has won 57.77 percent matches as captain.

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